Song order correction

I have added music to my iTunes 7. However, the only problem I have is that the songs are in reverse order. if a cd has 20 songs, it starts the song order from 20-1, instead of 1 - 20. Is there a way I change the way my songs appear. Now that iTunes has gapless song capability, I would like to take advantage of it.

What header are you referring to. I am looking at my playlist by group album view. ALl the songs are listed backwards. When I go to infor, the songs are listed in the correct order, just not when I am viewing the album.

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The playlist is smart. The song order is correct in iTunes and shows the correct order on the device if you look at the contents through iTunes. However, when looking at the playlist on the device itself the songs are out of order.

Well, while the playlist in iTunes and the playlist on the iPhone, as it appears in iTunes, match, the problem is that the iPhone seems to be stripping the instruction to order the songs randomly. That instruction is given in the 'limit to 30 GB selected by random' line. The list on the iPhone is in order from least recently played to most recently played. The highlighted column in the playlist is the leftmost 'number' column not the Last Played column. Any clues hiding out there?

Song order messing up in very strange ways.

I've recently had a very strange problem with itunes displaying the album song order correctly.
For some (not all, but quite a few) of my albums, The first song has moved to the last slot. Sometimes this happens for up to 5 or 6 different songs in an album. The strangest part, however, is that albums will begin to do this randomly. Albums that were perfectly fine the day before are now also messed up. I have already tried correcting tags and double checking to make sure everything is the same for all songs. Is there any solution to this problem?
For your convenience, I've taken some screenshots so you can understand what I'm talking about.
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Another bump for help. This forum is not helping. Last try.

Can't get albums/songs in correct order!!! (11.1.3)

I can't get songs and albums to order correctly on my iPod. All but one album has the correct song order on iTunes on my laptop and they are all ordered by artist/year on iTunes, I can't get that ordering method to transfer to the iPod. And on half the albums on the iPod the songs are out of order and/or the albums are out of chronological order.
So I had been using some outdated version of iTunes on my old computer for some time, and with that version and my 4th gen Nano I was able to get my albums arranged by year like I like them.
I bought a new computer (old one still works) and had my iPod stolen about the same time so I had a new computer and was forced to resort to a secondhand 3rd gen Nano, using iTunes 11.1.3, completely unfamiliar to me. Some of the stuff I own isn't off iTunes and that's what I'm having the biggest problem with.
I had the issue of two songs being in the wrong place on one album. The track numbers were appropriate, everything else in the "get info" field was identical to the rest of the album. Frustrated, I once again copied my library from my old computer to my new one. This was a huge mistake.
In an attempt to get everything back the way it was I started messing with the iPod settings in iTunes, checking boxes like "manually manage songs" without having a clue what they did. I tried "converting higher bit songs to 192kbps" due to this old turd not being able to hold all my music otherwise. This helped none.
At least half of my albums were now out of chronological order, some of them were split into 2 albums, (one album would claim to only have one song. It had all 12 or so songs from that album but they were out of order.) Some had all the songs in order but were chronologically incorrect. (2002 album appearing before 1997 album) and some (like the one I got off a CD) are impossible to order correctly. I manually filled out every. single. field. in the "properties" section. The track listing still goes like 2,3,4,5,1,10,7,8,9 or something like that. It is just infuriating.
I have just had it. I've tried everything I can think of, I've scowered the internet and can't find anything helpful.
I'm at the point right now where I think it would be easier to just buy 50 CDs and use those to listen to in my car rather than have to deal with Satan's idea of user-friendliness. Any help is greatly appreciated, I've just had it.

Cal Burke wrote:
This is a programming error, obviously - to me. Is someone addressing that issue? Anybody?
What behaviour exactly do you consider to be a programming error? If repeatable and clearly not an intended design choice then a bug report might be in order. If it works as designed but you think it should work differently then feedback would be the way to go. Either way nobody is likely to address an issue that isn't brought to their attention.
I am unable to put the songs of a playlist I created in the order I want. iTunes 11.1.3 has been on my machine since September of last year and this issue began today. I'd lke to believe it's the result of something I have done, but the world is full of things I would like to believe that are not.
"View Options" was set to 'manual' and songs would snap back when I attempted to move them, so - as that was the only preference I could find that applied - I changed it to "Artist Name" and back to manual. Now they don't budge when I attempt to move them.
Ah, when viewing a playlist use the List view and select the heading of the left-most column of numbers. This is the Play Order column. You can drag tracks up and down the list. If you sort on some other column and would like to use this as an initial order which you can then modify, right-click on the playlist name and click Copy to Play Order then select the play order column. Note the triangle should be pointing upwards otherwise the list will play in reverse on your device.
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When priniting jewel case inserts, my song order is reversed. The numbering is correct, but the song titles are incorrect. This only happens on jewel case inserts. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

When priniting jewel case inserts, my song order is reversed. The numbering is correct, but the song titles are incorrect. This only happens on jewel case inserts. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I have exactly, exactly!! thesame annoying problem you have or had. I don't know what to do and i am reallyfrustrated with the dumb limited inside the box solutions offered to me. It'slike if you have a problem with your ipod or iphone you can either restore it,uninstall/reinstall itunes and thats pretty much it. I am sorry but that isjust f***** up.
anyway, regardless to all that,i was wondering if you had any success in solving this problem (something otherthan using a different computer which oddly enough seemed to work for somereason..?? why???, weird) since April.
I am on the edge of givingup.
thank you in advance.

Playlist song order doesn't list correctly in iPod, only in iTunes

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Try clicking on the column header above the track numbers and see if that fixes it.

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I just put some new music in my iTunes. I downloaded the CD off the internet by individual songs and edited each songs info correct so its all the right album, artist, song number of total, etc. But the songs are not lined up in the proper order. How can I have them lined up correctly?

I had a similar issue once that was solved by also including the "Disc 1 of 1" information for each song - you wouldn't think it would be needed, but may help.
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My iPod always displays the wrong order of songs for particular albums. I tried connecting it to the computer and changing the song order via iTunes but it was correct on iTunes. Went back to iPod and it is still the wrong song order on those albums. Any solutions?

I got it - some songs had "Album Artist" set, some not. Those without were at the end of the list, regardless of the track number set. iTunes disregards "Album Artist" and shows songs in correct order. I simply removed album artist in all tracks and the order became correct. Setting album artist to the same for all tracks would also work.
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Song order in playlist

Hope someone can help me. I am a classical music listener. Most of my music is burned from CD's, but I have purchased some from the itunes store. My problem is this - on the computer the order of say movements in a piece is correct. When I try to listen on an ipod or ipad, the song order is scrambled. (I assume the long titles of movements confuses things) I have tried a number of options on the ordering, but nothing works - can I force this?

i know little about classical music, etc, however, i have started a habit of my own to sort music listed on my library in the order as listed on a CD as i rip it in.
My habit is to look at my music as a virtual pile. I want to see from the top down, the most recent things added. However, the problem lies in if u insert a CD, click import, it imports with track 1 first, then thru the cd till end.
When i then sort as described above, all the songs are in reverse order as the timestamp on each track is older, 1 being older than 2, and so on.
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Mabey some aspect of this would help you to straighten your issue out. idk..

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This may sound silly, but my song order is incorrect on the iPod itself. It's in the correct order when viewed in iTunes, but when the iPod is disconnected and I go to play the album, it places that song at the end. Anyone, please help!?! Thanks.

iPod is disconnected and I go to play the album,
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RaySkater wrote:
wierd, because if I get info on a given song, iTunes "knows" that it's Song 1 of 16, yet in the player window, it has that very same song as song # 5!
In the player window, how are the songs sorted?
I've burned this thing 5 times, making sure that I have create song number checked, etc...
How did you select and sort before you burned them?
Any clues why this happens and how I can fix it?
When iTunes gets song names, it has the order correct, and burns the songs in the correct order. So, where's the disconnect?
How are you burning them when it does it in the correct order?
thanks!
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So in one instance it does correctly and in another it does
it incorrectly?
Can you please provide more detail as to exactly what you are doing?
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