Playing albums in track order-please

Why and how can it be so freaking hard to play an album on itunes starting with the first track and then go on from there in order!??
The only way is to go to the search area and look up the album, and then hit the track # tab. Or to always organize your music by artist. This is ridiculous. I personally like to view my music in the 'date added' order and I can find no way to fix this problem.
Artist and recording engineers and producers spend many hours sequencing a full collection of songs, choosing the track order, deciding how many seconds should go in between pieces, so some of us really want to respect this and listen to whole albums the way that they were intended to be played!
Please add an option that helps solve this!!!
B.

iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
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Playing Albums in Track Order

Using iPod Classic I'm able to make an album play in track order if I select it from the album list but it seems album tracks always display and play in alphabetical order if selected via a search.
Is it possible to make individual albums always display and play in track order?

iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
Apple doesn't use the AD forums for providing product feedback or suggestions since this intended to be an end-user to end-user (i.e., users like you helping other users) technical issue support feature. You should send feedback via:
[http://www.apple.com/feedback> - Apple products feedback links

My Apple TV 1st gen will now no longer play any of our iTunes music, although it shows a speaker symbol when you select play on the track. Please help?

My Apple TV 1st gen will now no longer play any of our iTunes music, although it shows a speaker symbol when you select play on the track. Please help?

Are you streaming or syncing you music? Sounds like you're streaming music directly from iTunes.
There can be many different issues. First, try power-cycling you wireless router (leave router disconnected for about 1 or 2 minutes) to refresh the wireless communication betweek both devices.
Make sure all software updates have been installed, for Apple TV and iTunes.

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I recently downloaded Daft Punk's new album after buying it on vinyl. after importing it to itunes, itunes wont list the album in track order. instead it lists the tracks in order per artists. example Daft punk, then Daft punk featuring Pharrel Williams ect...how do i get itunes to understand that they're all the same album and to list them in track order??
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Hi bdm105!
Most likely, this is happening because the Album Artist field is different for each song from Random Access Memories. We have an article about song grouping in iTunes, and it can be found here:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
There are a couple ways to fix the information listed for Random Access Memories outlined in that article, but I want to point out one here:
Albums in which all songs don't have the same Album Artist information
iTunes 7 and later includes a new attribute for song files called Album Artist This allows you to assign a primary artist name for an album that many includes songs by several artists. It is important that all songs in the album have the same Album Artist name. To assign an Album Artist, select all the songs in the album and choose Get Infofrom the File menu. Next, type a name in the Album Artist field name such that it will apply to all the selected songs. This field can optionally be left blank if all the songs have the same album name.
The Album Artist field is shown in the above picture, but it is not highlighted. You will also want to make sure the Track Number field contains the correct information for the album, and information on that field can be found here:
Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta24677
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
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HELP - Cannot play music in track order ALWAYS shuffles!!!!!!!!!!

Hi
Can anyone help me please.
If I play an album on my iPhone or a play list it always plays in random order never in album or playlist order.
I cannot figure it out.
Please help???????????
Robin

I had the same problem. I thought there was a problem with the file system and thought I'd have to reset my entire phone. But you had the answer... Thanks! Seems like something Apple could improve - I'm sure I randomly touched that area.

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Can anyone help with downloading albums so that they are filed in itunes library in the correct track order? At the moment I can only do this by creating separate playlists for each album as the library stores them in alphabetical order.

Hammer...itunes will load the files in the correct rack order as long as the track information is properly filled in itunes...
I have ripped all my CD collection and imported to itunes and all my tracks get loaded properly becuase my tag informaiton is correct.
If you buy music from the itunes store, you do not need to worry about the tag information becaus the song will already have all that.

I have made a playlist on my iPod touch 4th generation for some friends' wedding and I want to play the list in the order I wrote it. It keeps shuffling though, so how do I play it in track order?

I have made a playlist on my iPod touch 4th generation for some friends' wedding and I want to play the list in the order I wrote it. It keeps shuffling though, so how do I play it in track order

In iTunes, before you sync the playlist, you can right click on the playlist and select the option that says "Copy Play Order" that will preserve list in the order you have them.
Though this page is outdated, I believe it still applies:http://support.apple.com/kb/ta27500
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Combining tracks into one album, choosing track order

Hi, I've searched this forum and haven't been able to solve this yet.
I have a bunch of b-sides that I want to add to an album proper. Say the album has 12 tracks. I am able to add an additional song to the album, which increases the track count to 13 tracks. Only problem is, track number 13 is at the top of the list (album view), so the play order is 13,1,2,3 etc....
I have experimented with the "track number 13 of 13" option, and although the info tells me it is indeed the last track of the album, iTunes refuses to show it numerically in order.
How do I make it so these additional tracks play at the END of the album, and not the beginning, with the ultimate goal transferring the entire thing to my iPhone?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Ryan Campbell4

Ryan:
First off, in the Get info>Info pane, make sure that they all say disk 1 of 1, OR that there's nothing there at all. Also make sure that Artist and Album Artist match up.
Second, go to the sorting pane, and make sure that anything you've added matches what was there in the first 12 songs.
See what those do for you--
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Doc

Play music: correct track order

Dear,
I'm new here...I recently bought a macbook and I'm really very satisfied with it. Just a few points that are still unclear to me since I've always worked with Windows. But I must say, macintosh is way easier and faster!
Now, when I import music into the Itunes library (without copying) I want the tracks to be in the same trackorder as in the file I've saved them. I mean, I've saved my tracks with a number in the filename, eg. 001-trackname.mp3,
002-trackname.mp3,etc...Now, when I select them all in the finder and open thel with Itunes, the tracks will be played in alphabetical order, and that order is made up by the trackname in de ID3 information.
How can I set up the library so that it will order my tracks according to their filename?
Thank you!
Alex

There are albums who have the correct tracknumbers already
Make sure you run the scripts on only the songs that do not have the track numbers.
Create new playlist called No track numbers (or something).
Control click on the Column header and tick Track number then sort on this.
Select all the songs with nothing in this column and drag to this new playlist.
You could use this one first -> Filenames to Song Names
which will copy the file name to the song name, then run the other.
But before you go any further, quit iTunes and make a copy of the iTunes library file located in the iTunes folder and move it somewhere.
Ideally, you should make a copy of the entire iTunes folder first.

Why won't my songs play in numerical tracks order?

I have an album with about 30 songs on it, and some of those songs came from different sources. I changed all of the items on "Get Info" so that they would match, (album title, artist, album artist, composer, track number, disc number, compilation, etc) and although all of the information is correct, some of the songs are out of order. The album starts out with Track 1, but then it skips to Track 3. The rest of the album proceeds in numerical order for the most part, but Track 2, 15, 16, and 20 are all listed at the end of the album. If everything in Info checks out, why are some of the songs out of order?

You will need to make sure that all the other relevant fields are completed and that those fields are accurate.
total number of tracks on the album (as well as the track number):
Artist name and album title are exactly the same - i.e. no extra spaces at the end of the name.
If it is a Various Artists album, make sure that Part of a compilation is ticked and that the Album Artist has Various Artists in it, (See the above example).
If none of the above sorts out the issue, check the Sorting tab and make sure the fields are correct.

SICK of iTunes messing up my albums' track order!

SCENARIO: I rip a CD, get track name/number and ID3 info from online database, convert to MP3, import into iTunes, sort by Album by Artist (with tracks displaying in correct order), and my iPod STILL chooses to play it in whatever order it darn well pleases.
What's up with that?! Come on, Apple!
Oh yeah, my question:
As you can probably tell, I don't use my iPod/iTunes as a 'jukebox', I simply store my record collection on it. Concordantly, I want to listen to only my albums, and only in the track order the artist intended. How can I tell iTunes/my iPod once and for all that I don't want it to play albums in any order other than track order? If this isn't possible, my question becomes, which form of suicide could anyone recommend? I hear the Empire State Building is pretty high...

Your iPod will order the tracks by their "Track number" tag that appears when you ⌘-i a track and go to the "info" tab. Your iPod needs to know what the track number is in order to play the tracks in that order.
When this value is not present, I'm guessing it will order them in alphabetical order, or the order in which they were imported or some-such.

Albums dont organise in track order.

hi. for some reason organising my itunes library by 'date added' means the albums are never in order and displayed together.
is there any way of organising it so albums (in track order) show in 'date added'?
thanks!

They all appear to have been added at the same time and date. Are these store downlods? They may be tagged according to download creation time and the downloads are not finishing in order. You could avoid this in future by telling iTunes not to do parallel downlods, and then hope that it downlods them an album at a time.
Check the Dougscripts web site. There is a script that lets you edit the date added field.

SMART PLAYLISTS: ORGANIZING BY DATE ADDED & KEEPING ALBUM TRKS IN ORDER

Dear Knowledgeable Users of iTunes:
I would like to create a a Smart Playlist that will do the 2 following things:
1) Play albums in the order of date added
(I solved this one)
2) Play the songs in the order they come on the album
(Couldn't solve this...)
Summary: playing music in the order it was added to the library AND maintaing the original track order of the albums...
Is this to much to ask, it seems pretty practical-
In an attempt to accomplish this, I made a Smart Playist & selected:
Date Added: In the last 24 months
-This solved the 1st problem beautifuly
But now the albums play backwards- (as you know, iTunes rips album's songs in their original order, so when your sort by 'Recently Added', each album plays backwards ! -last song first, first song last and so on- This is problem I want to solve-
To summerize:
How can listen to my most recently added albums while the songs in their original order?
The point of all this is for listening to music on my iPod-
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated-
Thanks in advance!
-Temp

There are some issues to with live updating & smart playlists on iTunes 9, and also those containing mixed content, e.g. Podcasts & Music, though I'm not sure that is the problem here. You should be able to sort the playlist on any heading you like and then use *Copy to Play Order* to control the order that will be synced.
For split albums see http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
tt2

ITunes track order problem

I have purchased an EP by a band, featuring three songs. A month later the band released their full length album featuring the songs off of the EP. I wasn't given an option to buy the full length version, instead iTunes opted for a discounted version due to the songs already being in my "Library". I would have bought the full length despite the songs I already own. When I downloaded the full length album the track order got screwed up. Is there a way to change the track numbers so that they appear in the proper order in the Library? As this is where I listen to my music from, and not from a playlist! This is a huge problem as it misrepresents the artists' view of what the album should sound like from start to finish. This boarders on the same level as a museum curator cutting up a painting and reassembling it the way the want to.

Thanks Turingtest2! This corrected the problem. Your article is great and I highly recommend it to everyone as it also fixed some other problems I was having with some Greatest Hits CD's, etc. Again, great article and many thanks!

Track order changing on ipod since updating to itunes7

after upgrading to itunes7, i updated my ipod, to find that on some of my albums the track order had changed. for example, track 7 would be before track 1.
i dont understand why its happening, as the track order on my itunes library is correct.
someone had a similar problem with track order changing but it was happening to their itunes library. heres the link for that http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=663895&tstart=15
i left a post on that thread to see if i get any replies from that.
i use windows xp and have a fat colour display ipod.
can anyone help me out?
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I'm experiencing the same issue: iTunes (7.0.1.8) OK, iPod (5th gen) some albums messed up. Checked album settings, e.g. 'Artist', 'Album artist', 'track numbers' and reimported album, etc., however, so far unsatisfactorily. Did you manage to solve the problem?

Playing albums in track order-please

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