Putting albums in order

How come when I put new music on my ipod it doesn't always put it in alphabetical order? For instance I put Jimmy Buffett on there which is a two disc album. It put disc 1 where it should be but disc 2 is at the end. I have outkast albums mixed up all over the place. Is there a way to put them in the order I want manually? The problem is on the cover flow option.

At a guess, disc 2 of your Jimmy Buffett album will be marked as a compilation. Sort order is essentially Album by Artist with artists ordered A-Z, then numbers & symbols, then compilations. Select the tracks and set Compilation to No. If you give the discs the correct disc X of Y numbers and exactly the same album title then they will appear as one album rather than two covers side-by side.
The Outkast albums will be scattered about because they feature guest artists or at the very least a varying selection of artists creditied in the Artist field. You can fix cover flow either by setting the sort artist value of each track to the album artist or you can add the artist info. to the track name, e.g. *Title (Feat. Guest)* and set the artist of each track to the album artist.
The other major cover flow issue is that it treats all albums with the same title as one album. If you have a number of Greatest Hits albums you will find the tracks of ALL of your Greatest Hits albums listed when you turn any of them over in clover flow. This can be fixed by giving each album a unique title whenever there is a clash, e.g. *Album, Artist*.
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I suspect that you will have to re-edit the metadata to accomplish your goal. As images are copied and moved this is often modified (place/geotag, faces, dates).......... Just a though. You can download the photos and both check it and if necessary change it in iPhoto

HT201317 Album Photo Order Changes when Posted to Photostream

Okay, I really liked the old iWeb app. When I built albums the order in the album remained the same when posted to a web page.
Am I missing something? Why does Photostream put photos back into number/date order? Can this be overridden?
Thanks!

The order is probably alpha-numeric, based on the File Name of the photos. iPhoto allows you to change the photo's title, but to change the file name you must export a copy outside of iPhoto.
Select your album. Then export to a desktop folder, with "use album name" checked. If your album is named "Winter" then the photos will be names "Winter 01," "Winter 02," etc. Your order should be preserved.
If your photo titles are important, you could pad the beginning of each title with a numeral. Then export with "use title" checked, and the file name will become the photo's title.

Keeping album song orders in their original order???

Hello everyone,
I'm a nubie to mastering Itunes, but I was wondering if anyone can help me keep my albums, song orders, organized in their original track order, instead of alphabetically.
Most of my mp3's are in individual album files inside the artist file, with a number order beginning each track name 01_tracka, 02_trackb, etc. etc.
Anyway, when I add all my songs to itunes and use my library/browser to search for albums, they come up alphabetically totally messing up my original song orders.
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Gene,
iTunes does not use the file names to display or sort the tracks. It uses the tags associated with each track. You can edit a track's tags by highlighting the track, pressing Command-I, and then clicking on the Info tab.
To put an album in track order, you would need to enter the track number in that field of the get Info box. You would at least need to actual track number, you could add the total number of tracks as well.
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View Options (Command-J) only determines what columns are displayed in the main "spreadsheet" like display of iTunes. To actually sort the tunes, you need to click on the header of the column you want to sort by.

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Placing photo albums in order

Hi all!
First thing first, I work in a photography studio in Spain and all of our tech stuff is Apple. We love it and it goes great until.... it doesn't!
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I'm not sure there is an order because even if I have not added any photos to my iPhoto albums, the order always changes every time I sync.
When I do add photos to existing albums, or even great new albums, they don't follow alphabetical order like they do in iPhoto. Some albums stay where they are, others don't follow along.

ITunes Album Track Order

I basically spend 8 hr a day listening to iTunes and I have a really frustrating issue that I can't imagine should be as difficult to get around - but I can't seem to figure it out.
I buy quite a bit of music either through emusic, itunes or cd's. Since I had probably 1/2 dozen albums a week, I ideally want to open itunes and just start listening to the last album I imported (in order) followed by the 2nd most recent album, etc -- and ideally listen for my entire workday. The problem is multifaceted:
1. Emusic automatically imports music I download. It processes them in reverse order, which is good since it makes song #1 the most recent "date added" which allows me to sort by "date added" and listen in order. Unfortunately, since it processes multiple songs at a time, shorter songs beat the song before it -- and it makes a mess of the track order. They get numbered correctly, but they're "date added" are incorrect -- which messes up my listening order.
2. When I import a CD, it starts at track 1 -- making it impossible to use the "dated added"field as a sort.
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Of course that helps moving forward, but I guess I'm stuck with out of order imports on the existing library (not the end of the world).
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Like any distribution system anywhere, stock is allocated to various outlets to ensure everywhere gets at least some stock. You clearly have no understanding whatsoever of distribution.
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Ed - by sequence of numbers, are you talking about the rectangle with the arrow that sorts by track number? I've tried to follow your directions to Mona but my playlist still gets burned to CD in alpha order. driving me crazy. any other suggestions? thanks, Chris
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