Song sequence in iTunes all wrong
Hello, I've been using iTunes for years and never had any problems, until now.
Since last week iTunes shows all the songs in my library in alphabetic order. This is the case with downloaded stuff, but also with imported songs from a cd.
I have tried everything, try to sort on album and convert the id3 tags.
When there are multiple artist in my library, iTunes sort on artist name first and then all the songs of those artist in alphabetic order. Tracknumbers and disc numbers are all OK, and the artist name and album name are also Ok.
I find this very annoying and the only way to fix this is to number the songs in the songname. I have to add 01, 02, 03 in front of the song name, then iTunes sorts them on the numbers.
Can anyone help me?
Hi Marsellus
Try test different ways to sort your library by activating different column headers. The most common one is track order/number:
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8643/trackorderax5.jpg
Make sure that the little arrow is pointing up.
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