Playing songs out of order

Recently and for no apparent reason my NANO began playing songs out of order in my playlists. It happens on all playlists. It doesn't jump from list to list just changes the order within the list itself. It is shuffling the songs because it if you view the playlist that is playing the songs are in the correct order, it just skips around.

Your shuffle setting on the iPod is probably changed from OFF to "Songs" which will cause the iPod to shuffle any playlist you play on the iPod. Go to main menu of the iPod -> Settings and check.
Patrick

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I have a 30gb Video iPod (4 or 5 years old). It has suddenly started playing album tracks in the wrong order. When I look at the album track listing, the songs are the correct order, but it won't play them that way. It's always in a different, arbitrary order. Please help! Thanks in advance.

First, try doing a Reset to restart the iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320
If that does not help, and this problem only affects ONE album, and this album's songs are seen as having the correct Track # information in iTunes, what I would do is delete just this album from the iPod. Then, add it back. If there is some corrupted data on the iPod related to the album's song order, this should fix it.
If it's happened to all albums (or many albums) on the iPod, I would do a Restore on the iPod using iTunes. Select the iPod in the iTunes sidebar, under DEVICES. Over to the right, go to the Summary tab. Click the Restore button. This will erase the iPod, reinstall its software, and set it to default settings.

IPhone 4 playing pieces of songs out of order

My iPhone 4 is doing something that I can't even wrap my head around. When I try to add music from iTunes to my iPhone, everything seems to transfer fine. But when I go to play a song on the phone, the song will play with pieces of the song out of order. So for example, when I start the song, it will start playing the music that is 0:30 into the song, keep playing that segment for a minute or so, then play a chunk from the end of the song, then play a bit from the beginning of the song. I've tried multiple songs from multiple artists and multiple sources (songs downloaded from iTunes, ripped from CDs, etc) and I keep getting the same issue. The songs all play fine when I play from iTunes. It's just that when I play from the phone, they get all crazy.
I've updated iTunes and the iPhone, restarted the phone and my computer, tried all of those basic troubleshooting methods. Assuming you even understand the issue I'm trying to describe, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this fixed? I can't even make a guess as to what is causing this.
Thanks for any help you can give.

The same is happening to me, too. It plays 10+ seconds into the song, then it plays the beginning, then it plays back to where the interruption happened, then it plays a section later in the song, then back to the interruption, then when the song ends, it plays another part of the song that was missed.

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Ever since upgrading to iTunes 11 I've had a problem with some albums playing tracks out of order.
I put the track number in the file names and track titles, so sometimes I leave the track number field blank. Not a problem, because iTunes sorts the tracks alphabetically so it lists them in the right order.
In album view, if I select the first track, it plays all the tracks in the right order. But if I select the album, either by double-clicking the album cover or by searching for it from the mini player, it plays them in a random order.
This makes no sense. What's going on here?

So that's an obvious solution (and what I just did in this particular case). But it's an annoying bit of extra work and, more importantly, since it was never necessary before, I have a lot of albums which don't have track numbers. Because, as I said, they always displayed and played in the correct order regardless. So the track number tag was extraneous.
What I'm wondering is whether there's a fix for this behavior.
And also whether it's possible to implore the iTunes development team to fix this! If the tracks are listed in a certain order, they should always play in that order.

Iphone songs out of order?

Iphone songs out of order?
Why on my new Iphone4s do my songs appear out of order? It did not do this on my old ipod touch?
The songs are not pirated and are in order in itunes by user ratings.

This may help for a variety of sorting problems.
For a Most Recently Added Playlist for music on iPhone 4, iOS 5.0, iTunes 10.5 (141), Here's what worked for me after lots of experimenting:
To Create a "100 Newest" playlist:
1. In iTunes, delete any previous 'X Newest" playlists if they've not been syncing correctly since iOS 5 update, especially if they have referenced other playlists. In my experience if these playlists are not syncing in the correct order, there is nothing you can do to make them sync in the correct order - cut your losses and delete.
2. In iTunes under 'Library' in the sidebar, select 'Music" I think this may be CRITICAL
3. From the 'File' menu select 'New Smart Playlist'
4. In the pop up box that appears, check 'Match the following rule:'
5. In the next line, in the pop-up menus, select the following: 'Media Kind', 'is', 'Music'
6. Check the "Limit to" checkbox and enter the '100' in the box, and then select the follwing option in succeeding popup lists: 'items', selected by 'most recently added'
7.You may check either or both of the options 'Match only checked items' and 'Live updating' - in my experiments these had no effect.
8. Click 'OK' and name your smartlst '100 Newest' or anything you'd like.
Here's something to note:
In your iTunes 'Music Library', the sort order is newest song at the top of your library when the LIBRARY is sorted by 'Date Added' and the small triangle has it's apex pointing down. To me this means the LATEST song is on top.
In your '100 Newest' playlist, to sort so the newest song is at the top of the playlist when the PLAYLIST is sorted by 'Date Added' , you'll note the triangle is oriented with the apex pointing up. To me this signifies the 'YOUNGEST ADDED' song is on the top.
However you view those two items, it's interesting that you'd expect the sort order might be reversed according to the triangle orientations, but it's not. And that's one of the sorting problems I had with syncing my playlists - newest were on the bottom on my iPhone playlist, but on the top in the playlist in my iTunes Library. Certainly not a consistant user interface.
Also note that if you've used a previous hint in referencing a dated order playlist to avoid a previous iTunes playlist syncing bug, those lists now won't sort properly any longer. As I said - cut your losses and start anew.
Hope this helps someone else. It took me a long time to get right.

How to play songs in sequential order on iPod touch 4th Gen. ?

How do I play songs in sequential order on a specific album? Some albums should be listened to that way, for example LIVE CONCERTS or concept albums. I have an Ipod Touch 4th Generation. I have turned OFF shuffle play, but that did not help.

Arrange them in a Playlist in the proper order and then just play that playlist.
manuals.info.appleipod_touch-6.1-_user_guide.pdf

No arkwork and songs out of order

ok i think im not the only but i want this say to me in lameman terms lol, ok so i have everything checked with the artwork on my ipod and it wont let me load any artwork on my ipod, it shows up in my librey and my music part of itunes but when i disconnect my ipod and play it no artwork shows up.
now sense i updated everything on my ipod alot of my songs are out of order, there fine on itunes and in the librey but not on my ipod can someone help me out?
or are we going to have to wait till itunes 8?

There is a quicker way to restore your mixed up
artwork....
Connect ipod to computer,when ipod screen displays
click on
music tab (top center),untick 'Display album artwork
on your ipod' at the bottem of the list and press
'Apply' let it complete,then disconnect ipod.
Now repeat the above,only this time tick the box that
says
'Display album artwork on your ipod' and 'Apply'.This
works for my 30gig 5G with itunes 7 every time.
That only works if all your Ipod music is still in your Itunes library. When you deselect to view your album artwork on your Ipod and click APPLY, then all your album art gets deleted from your Ipod. When you re-apply to allow album art to be displayed on your Ipod it will only grab what is currently in your Itunes library.
Assuming you don't get that Error 50 message.
I had to reimport all the music and videos from my Ipod into Itunes then sync my Ipod to my Itunes library. Now I have all the album artwork without issue. But I have a 60GB hard drive and a 60GB Ipod. So doing that in the future won't work unless I buy an extra hard drive.

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This is a recent problem for me, but it's happening all the time lately. Here's the issue: the songs in my purchased folder are sorted by date downloaded, but in the past, when I've purchased an entire album from iTunes, the songs appear grouped in album order.
Lately, though, they come into my purchased folder completely out of order. It's annoying on a couple of levels. One, I like to play recently played albums in their entirety straight from my purchased playlist; two, it makes it impossible to "make playlist from selection" and have the songs in the proper album order.
Don't know how this problem started, but I'd really like to fix it.

When you import or download albums they don't necessarily get added in track order, or reverse track order. I've a script for Windows which can remove and reimport tracks to sort them correctly but that's not going to help on your Mac. You may need to remove all the tracks and then reimport them one at a time first to last or last to first depending on whether you want you most recent albums at the end or the beginning of the list.
For general sorting tips see http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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My itunes arranges some songs out of order. why?!

I' m having trouble with my Itunes and playlists. Also, some songs get cut off suddenly and stop playing. What can I do?

maybe your songs in the itunes are out of order (ps.2 4 5 1 3)
1>click the serial item of songs
2>the song are in order to 1.2.3.4.5
3>then sync the songs

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With the new iTunes update all the tracks for my albums are out of order. This really poses a problem when playing Broadway soundtracks (I kind of like to hear the show in order).
Is there an easy fix for this?

I also have this problem when in album "grid" view. iTunes plays the songs totally out of orded, but NOT by shuffling. (I've made sure the "shuffle" function is turned off). The order it plays the songs is screwed up, but non-random. I.e it's the same everytime.
Just like the previous poster, I've also assigned numbers to each track title, and they're organized correctly in each album. It's just that iTunes seems to ignore the order of the songs, and jumps between albums.
This is NOT good for my OCD!

Songs out of order?

I recently imported several CDs to my iTunes library, and for some reason, some of the songs are appearing out of order. I have read the discussions regarding this on the message board (probably not all, but four or so?), and it doesn't seem to be the same reason everyone else is encountering. A few notes detail the problem:
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- The album in question is only by one artist. I have group-changed the artist, album and album artist fields to the same value for all tracks. So it's not a guest-artist issue.
- I have marked the album as a compilation, to no effect. This worked great on many multi-artist albums, but didn't help here.
- All tracks of the CD are marked as being within one CD (there isn't the horizontal line that desigates different albums).
- The tracks appear in order when I sort by Artist; however, this breaks up the compilations elsewhere in the library, so I really want to use Album by Artist.
- Changing the view format to adjust options did not help either, and this seems strange enough that I'm surprised it helped for someone else in the past.
- Closing and reloading iTunes also had no effect.
Any thoughts on how to make them appear in order in the Album by Artist view?

maybe i missed something here. But heres my $0.02
you cannot change the order in the library it is true, except by sort.
you can change the order in playlists by simple drag 'n' drop.
So if this makes sense to you then you can ignore the order in the library (no more reimporting). You can then just set up a playlist and order them by column sort OR just drag and drop them into the order you want.
hope that helps

Grouping Displays songs out of order

I was wondering why a grouping would be played out of order even though the tracks are in order with the rest of the cd?

oops, i meant, tracks are in order for the cd, and the grouping.

Burned playlist to data DVD; song out of order

Why would "Burn Playlist to Disk' change the order of the songs in a playlist? Mine came our sorted by album name...not in the order I created in the playlist.
Have I got some setting wrong?

by album. I've tried all the variations of "album" too, by clicking on it a few times.
But I just discovered that if I don't have the track number listed in the Info section, that it gets out of order. I've manually changed a few and it has worked. Just wish I got it before it went into the system.

IPhone 3G iPod Application refuses to play songs in correct order

iPhone 3G running OS 4.0.2. Album tracks will not play in correct order. I do not have shuffle switched on. Albums tracks are displayed in correct sequence on both iTunes and iPod on the iPhone. When played on PC with iTunes no problem and everything in sequence. On the iPhone it's pants. It plays in completely random order. I've deleted all songs off the iPhone, and then reapplied all albums again and synced to iPhone. No change - still pants! No issue with "Album Artist" field. All correct. This must be a software bug in the iPod application

Jim,
I am humbled, and forever grateful for your answer. I have never previously seen the screen which you referred to (i.e. Repeat/Genius/Shuffle/Scrubber Bar/Playhead). But now realise to get this to display simply tap on the full screen image of the cover art. And yes indeed Shuffle was blue, and therefore switched on.
Warmest regards,
Robert

I can't get my playlist on my iPod Touch to shuffle while I'm running using the Nike . The playlist keeps defaulting to play songs in alphabetical order.

I use my iPod Touch with Nike+ while running. I have setup my workouts into my iPod but when I can't get my playlists to stay on "shuffle". The playlists only play in alphabetical order. Is there a way to make sure the songs play on shuffle and not in alphabetical order?

similar problem with my 6th generation ipod nano. if i select a playlist within the nike+ workout function it only ever plays the songs in alphabetical order of artists.
the shuffle works fine if i'm playing the playlist outside of the nike+ environment
never had these problems with my 2nd generation or 4th generation nanos
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