Playlist IPod Sorting issues.

Hi, I am having problems copying my playlist over to my IPod. I do not like listening to music lists according to alpha order, I instead create a flow of music for whatever I do. Unfortunately when I drag my playlist (which has all of my music in the exact order I want it to play) to my IPod, Everything is auto sorted to either album or artist or w/e column is highlighted.
This unfortunately does not allow me to play my music in the order I have specified in my playlist.
Help meh =D

Hello there,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Make sure each of these tracks aren't marked as *Part of a compilation* from under the Info tab of the *Get Info* window in iTunes. If they are, remove the tick mark and sync the updated changes to your iPod. Any luck there?
B-rock

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I can't believe we're still banging on about the sorting problems. Apple have seen fit to provide a number of features to allow the user to get iTunes working the way they like, e.g. grouping compilation artists and the use of sort fields. I think you can now even keep compilation artists grouped on the iPod. But why oh why do they then totally ignore this for the AppleTV and Front Row (which look like the same codebase to me)?
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Message was edited by: powerbookuser99

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