Rearranging song order in playlist

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I use to be able to simply drag and move playlist songs around at will. I can't anymore. Would anyone have any idea why? Thanks.

Make sure neither Shuffle or Repeat are switched on in the playlist, either of those can prevent you reordering tracks. Also make sure you click on the number column (extreme left). Click on the song you want to move, hold down the mouse button and drag the song to where you want it to be.

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Folks, I have put together a playlist for a party and it is ~3 hrs long. I would like to move some of the songs around, perhaps listening tracks earlier, fast paced then dancing tracks later. I thought it would be easy enough to just drag tracks up or down. Unfortunately, not so. Is it possible from within the playlist? I have also filtered on the song title column so I cannot understand why it is not letting me. The "Apple Genius" at the Chermside, Australian Apple store was unable to help either and gave me this forum detail.
Tks in advance,
Scott

Thank you, Limnos. I was just searching for the same question. YOU answered it perfectly. So simple! So easy! Hmmm . . . how do I give you a BIG STAR?? I guess I can't if I didn't ask the question
But you sure answered it for me!
Larry
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I cannot change song order on playlists (old or new) with highlight and drag. I have turned off shuffle and highlighted the far left column (up/down arrow) of playlist. My mac pro is running 10.5.8 and am using itunes 10.4. I can't drag and drop "music" to "playlist" but can right click and get the option to "add to playlist." No such option for moving song within playlist, only the up and down arrow which moves song from top to bottom list, so if it is #4 from top it will move to #4 from bottom. Stupid I know. I spent over an hour with Apple support, reinstalled itunes, restarted and rebooted computer. Networked with my laptop which is running 10.6.8 and itunes 10.4 and it can drag and drop. The final Apple support solution was to reinstall my operating system. I would prefer not to. Any other ideas?

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Can someone tell me how to do this very simple (used to be intuitive) task?
Thanks all.
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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.
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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.

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- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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Several weeks ago iTunes stopped letting me change the order of songs in playlists. When I try to drag and drop them to change up the order the track just snaps back into place.
I've gone over my settings several times trying to see if there's anything that got changed that might be causing this but nothing seems out of the ordinary.
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Make sure neither Shuffle or Repeat are switched on in the playlist, that can prevent you reordering tracks. You'll find the commands for these in the Controls menu or the two central buttons below the Source list. Also of course make sure you click on the number column (extreme left) of your play list to highlight it.

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