Recently Added Sorting problem

My recently added smart playlist has a major problem with song sorting.
When I have it sorted by date added so that the newest added songs appear at the top of the list, then none of the songs are in the numerical order that they appear on the album. See below
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Its even worse when the album artwork column is visible because there will be only one or a couple songs on each album and the album will appear multiple times. With some albums all the songs will appear together and not in the same order and some albums are spread out alphabetically in weird grouping.
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Is there anything I can do to get the albums all grouped together in the proper song order when sorted by Date Added in the Recently Added playlist?
I'm using iTunes 9.0.2.25 32bit

iTunes (unlike, for example, Excel) has never had multiple column sorting. You can pick one thing to sort on, and the rest will default. It does have a few built-in options, e.g. Album by Artist sorts primarily by Artist and secondarily by Album. But there is no way in general to do multiple column sorting.

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From there you have a few choices.
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OR
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Upon updating to iTunes 11 last week, I've found that my Recently Added playlist is completely out of order both on my iPhone 4 and in iTunes on my Mac.
The playlist is now set to sort by artist name, not the date that the songs were added. Ordinarily, I would just switch my display to "Sort by: Date Added." However, when I do this, the tracks within each album are now listed alphabetically, rather than being listed in track order. Towards the bottom of my playlist, songs aren't even sorted by album anymore - three albums are completely mixed up, because I purchased them at the same time.
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For reference...
In this image, you can see that the playlist is sorting by artist, and within each album, the tracks are in the correct order.
In this next image, you will see that I have sorted the playlist by "Date Added." When I do this, the "Sleeping with Sirens" album is in REVERSE alphabetical order (because it's ascending, not descending), not reverse track order. The albums near the top of the playlist are completely jumbled up.
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Instead of re-building your library from scratch, and re-importing certain playlists you had saved, it might've been better to have simply recovered your "iTunes Library.itl" file. That is the index that points to where all your song files are, and contains all your playlists, and has properties such as ratings, last played date, and date added. As long as the native files for your songs are in the same place, you could re-use your "iTunes Library.itl" file if you saved a copy before you erased your computer (always back that file up along with your native files, the .itl file IS your library).
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Try recreating the recently added playlist
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F:/Music/AMAZON~1/BEEGEE~1/NUMBER~1/01-MAS~1.MP3
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F:\Music\Bee Gees\Number Ones\01 Massachusetts.mp3
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Hi,
i have an iPhone 5, ios6 and iTunes 10.7 (all German).
In iTunes i have the smart playlist "recently added". It is sorted by the "last added" field.
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Hi,
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In iTunes i have the smart playlist "recently added". It is sorted by the "last added" field.
The playlist is setup as:
added within last 2 month, mediatype is music, only marked objects, automatic updates.
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When the playlist is synced, the "recently added" list, has a random order.
I also found out - by chance - that i added an other playlist with lots of titles recently. They are organized in an own playlist and do not show up in the recently added list in iTunes.
But after the sync the recently added playlist shows the newly copied titles.
It seems like if the iphone does calculate it's own list and the "recently added" playlist is missinterpreted on the iphone as "titles which where recently copied to the iphone". The "date field" is not used for the playlist, only the date the files was copied.
(Hope i described the problem as good as i can and you understand what i mean)
Any suggestions?
The same problem was with ios5 and was fixed in 5.x.x - i don't know the exact version.
Will i again have to wait for apple to fix it within the firmware? Why is this error reoccuring ever firmware update????

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