Rearrange Music Within a Playlist

Probably a dumb ?, but after I have added songs to a playlist, how do you change the order of the items within the playlist?

The playlist will be sorted by the column you select in iTunes. If you select the column to the left of the song titles (with the track numbers), you can drag the songs into any order you like.

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  • Rearranging Songs within a Playlist

    Hey folks,
    Hopefully someone can help me with this...I created a playlist, gave it a name. I've got about 80 songs within the list and I want to rearrange the play order. I've tried dragging titles, but songs don't realign. Is the number of songs in the list, the issue? Had success with lists that had fewer tracks.
    I'm hoping that the solution is not to create a new list...sigh. Any tips on the problem?
    June

    Open the playlist. Click at the top of the number column (extreme left) to highlight the header. Click on the song you want to move and drag it to where you want it to be. Make sure neither Shuffle or Repeat are switched on in the playlist, either of those can prevent you reordering tracks.

  • Sorting Music within a Playlist

    I am having a strange problem crop up that just started happenning recently. I am using the latest version of Apple TV system software along with the latest version of iTunes. When I create a playlist in iTunes I always sort it by track # by clicking on the appropriate column header. It used to be that on Apple TV, it would be sorted by what I set. Lately, it seems to be sorting randomly. I examined the tags with a tag editor and found nothing out of the ordinary. Any ideas? I store the music locally on the Apple TV. Any help would beappreciated since it is an annoying problem.

    I tried creating and re-creating the playlist to no avail. Note that the songs appear in perfect order on my ipod. The only other thing I do different than most is that I manage my own music directories.

  • Why can't I rearrange music in my iTunes playlists?

    I cannot drag and drop music within my Playlist.  I can add music to the playlist but cannot arrange the playlist.  Please help--somebody!

    Make sure that the sort icon (it is a little black triangle) is above the left column, i.e. the column of numbers.  if it is not there, click the space above the column to put it there.
    If it is above any other column, the list will stay sorted by that column, and you will not be able to move songs up or down.
    Also, make sure that Shuffle (the crossing arrows at the lower left) is not highlighted.

  • Keeping only some music, or deleting playlists from device?

    Hi all,
    I have 16 GB of music on my iPhone after I turned on iTunes Match.  I want to delete most of it, but there are some songs that I want to keep on the device.  This has been much more difficult than I thought.  I've been having this issue ever since I subscribed to iTunes Match when it was finally stable enough to work on my music library (about 10 months after subscribing, around 6 months ago).
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    This is a huge hassle, and I have been doing this to free up space on my iPhone.  I have about 32MB free, and before I can download an app, get an update, or even check my mail, I have to go and find more songs to delete through this method.  After deleting about 10 songs, I have enough space to continue using the phone for about a week or two.  But I just don't have the time to go and do this for 1000 songs!!!
    When I plug the phone into the computer, I can see all the songs in iTunes.  I wish I could just select the songs (for some reason I can't change the sort order, which is a pain), and delete them.  But iTunes won't let me!
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    I checked how long it's taking me with the current method.  I have 1400 songs (on the device) in 85 playlists, taking up 16 GB.  I want to keep about 350 songs, around 5 GB I'm guessing.  This is an estimate, because I only know which songs I want to keep when I hear them, or by which playlist they are in.  It's easier to find the songs that I want to keep, but instead I must to delete the songs I don't want to keep, as that's the only way Apple allows it.
    It takes about 6 seconds to navigate to the song (on average, navigating through playlists), about 10-20 seconds to play it, and 3 seconds to delete it.  That's about 25 seconds per song.  With 1000 songs, that's 25,000 seconds = 7 hours of work!!  And that's continuously doing this, which isn't even possible as sometimes I get stutters or random freezes for a few seconds before the iPhone is operational again (background apps/notifications?).
    Even if I could select multiple songs within a playlist, or use iTunes to delete, it might not be much faster.  Let's say it takes as long as 5 minutes to evaluate a playlist and select songs to delete from the playlist.  With 85 playlists, that would be 85 * 5 = 425 minutes = 7 hours!  Now if I could do it as fast as 1 minute per playlist, which might be possible with iTunes (e.g. it has Select All or allows you to delete an entire playlist on just the device, without affecting iTunes Match), it would only take 1.5 hours, which is reasonable.
    But it's still somewhat ridiculous having to spend an entire workday just to salvage ~350 songs.  If I could "tick" and select these songs that I want to keep via iTunes, I think it would take me about 5-7 seconds in the worst case if I have to listen to the song.  I usually know the name of the song that I want to keep, so it would be faster, but even if it did take 6 seconds on average, that would be 6 * 350 = 2125 seconds = 35 minutes.  Now that's more reasonable!
    If anyone has any suggestions to speed up or make this process easier, I'd really appreciate it.  Otherwise I'll struggle with waiting for a better solution while in the meantime spending 5-10 minutes deleting a few songs every week.  At this rate, I estimate I'll finish in 100 weeks.  This doesn't sound that bad actually, but it'll probably get more and more difficult finding the songs I don't want since there will be a higher ratio of songs I want to keep vs. not.  So it might be closer to 5 years (or I'll have to spend more than 5-10 minutes per session), at which point I'll hopefully have a 256 GB iPhone and don't have to worry about running out of space, especially with a measily 16 GB of music.  I'm tired of the running out of space warnings ever since I got my first iPhone (64 GB).
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    This is a good idea.  Somehow I forgot about it, as I haven't been using the computer I used to sync my iPhone with for like a year.  I stopped thinking about syncing when everything moved to iCloud.  However, I still do have access to that computer (sort of - it doesn't have a monitor right now), and more importantly the original music files that I want to transfer!  I remember this was my original idea when I first signed up for iTunes match and wrote it down somewhere, but forgot about this plan.  Probably because it took months to get the feature working in the first place.
    I was scared to turn off iTunes Match once I got everything working, as I didn't want to go through all the hassle again.  So whenever I plug in my iPhone, it wouldn't let me manage my music.  It seems to be much more stable now, so I suppose I can just disable it on the iPhone.  I can keep it enabled on the computer, right?  Then I sync the playlists that I want, and it should delete anything not selected on the iPhone.  Hopefully once it's done and I turn iTunes Match back on, it'll go back to working smoothly.
    Thanks, Michael.  I forgot about transfering the music from the original source.  I'm getting used to how powerful these iOS devices are nowadays that I forget you can't do everything with them, that more complex operations are better done on the desktop, but in a specific way.
    I still think that iTunes should let you delete music straight off the iPhone when it's plugged in.  But that's another issue.

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    Just watched part of the +Guided Tour+ again, because I'm now curious about the answer myself now.
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