Songs somtimes load out of order.

When I load a new album into itunes, it will make a new album folder for certain songs, so if you look at album flow view the album will be listed 1, 2 or more times with most songs on first album then maybe song 7 on album 2 and song 12 on album three. How can I get all songs on one album?

Either the "artist" or "album artist" field is different on some of the tracks, or you need to check the compilation checkbox.
Here is an article with examples on that:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389

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Ok, so I've been using a program for months to manage my ID3 tags on my music.
I like my ipod a lot, I use it everywhere I go, but recently after downloading 6 albums of a certain artist, I used the ID3 tag manager (like always.. never had a problem) to remove ALL album names, track numbers, EVERYTHING except the artist name (all the same) and genre (all the same for each artist).
I keep no album names or identification, I don't like going by albums, I just keep it simple and go by song titles. However, this time the songs are being somewhat ordered around into a specific order unknown to me, there will be some songs in alphabetical order here, then some random songs starting over the alphabet (same artist, mind you) and it will continue over and over starting with new albums I'm guessing.
I do not want this, and I do not know how to make it force alphabetizing it into the normal fashion by song title. This happens for no other artist (actually, it happens on a couple others, as this has been an issue for some time on particular artists). I need to know what I need to do to get this fixed.
also, if there is any way to remove the process of selecting Artist > Artist Name > ALL > Song name, I do not want to select my album as ALL every time I select an artist, because I don't even use that feature by ID3 tag, I completely remove it for every single piece of media I have on my ipod. My friend's ipod does not make you select ALL as the album if she doesn't have any albums listed, and I would like to see if this will work for my new 5th gen ipod as well.
Thanks for help!

Ok, I will restate what I've said throughout the entire thread:
I use an ID3 tag manager to mass-manage lots of music that I bring in via CDs and other locations. I handle a lot of music, and I only keep track of artists and song names, no albums or anything else except the genre to keep it sortof noted.
My ID3 tags for each and every song on my computer consists of ONLY the Artist name and genre, not a single thing else. No album name, no titles, nothing.
I have songs from multiple albums per artist, but they are mixed because they are UNTAGGED as being on a certain album. I personally have no idea what album each song may be on, and don't care to know.
My music on my ipod is organizing itself by an album title (ex: Album A songs will display before Album B songs) although there is NO INDICATION whatsoever that any song is on a particular album and is not told to be sorted in that manner.
The reason I didn't supply a screenshot is because it looks appropriately alphabetized in my itunes management, but this does not translate when uploading it to my ipod. Certain artists will have songs from X album appear above other songs for no reason, there is no reason it should put a song titled (for example): "Zanzibar" over a song titled "Float", but because the song titled "Zanzibar" is on an album starting with the letter A and "Float" on an album starting with the letter F, it will display ABOVE "Float" even though it is not being told to order itself by album title, and has no reason behind being placed there, as there is no information in the Album field on any of the songs that I own.
Do you see the predicament? I am aware it doesn't sound right, and that's why I've come here to get a resolution for it, it simply does not make since. I use an ID3 tag manager because when you load a CD onto your computer, it will keep Track numbers, Album names, etc. I remove this information and insert blank fields so that the music is SOLELY ORDERED by the FILENAME of the song (which happens to be the song title only, the ID3 "title" field is left blank as well).
If this helps clarify it for you, please forgive any discrepancies in my previous posts. I've tried to convey the same message in each post, but somehow you must've been lost.
So now that it's all stated clearly; My problem is this: I want my songs by ARTIST X to be alphabetized SOLELY on the FILENAME, which I have supplied the song title in that position. I have NO information in ID3 tags other than the ARTIST and GENRE. Nothing else, no title, album, anything.
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For a fuller examination of this topic see Grouping tracks into albums. The images are a little out of date, but the advice is still valid.
If tracks jump around when you play them then the chances are that an external program such as Windows Media Player has touched the files and iTunes is discovering changed data as it plays the file. WMP is good at removing the Disc X of Y values which can affect the order in iTunes.
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I am having the same problem that my artwork doesn't correspond with the right song thats playing, get different artwork and also artwork from movies that have been deleted long ago. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

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I recently upgraded my 4th generation iPod to a 30GB video iPod. With some albums, the songs will be out of order on the iPod (i.e. songs 1, 6, and 8 will come before the rest). The only thing I've been able to figure out thats different is the file type (AAF vs. MP3, for example). Is there any way to have the iPod organize the songs in order of track number instead of file type?

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I recently imported several CDs to my iTunes library, and for some reason, some of the songs are appearing out of order. I have read the discussions regarding this on the message board (probably not all, but four or so?), and it doesn't seem to be the same reason everyone else is encountering. A few notes detail the problem:
- There's one album where the track list is: 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 9, 11, 12 (in order except Track 10), and a few others with the same issue (albiet different track number out of order)
- The album in question is only by one artist. I have group-changed the artist, album and album artist fields to the same value for all tracks. So it's not a guest-artist issue.
- I have marked the album as a compilation, to no effect. This worked great on many multi-artist albums, but didn't help here.
- All tracks of the CD are marked as being within one CD (there isn't the horizontal line that desigates different albums).
- The tracks appear in order when I sort by Artist; however, this breaks up the compilations elsewhere in the library, so I really want to use Album by Artist.
- Changing the view format to adjust options did not help either, and this seems strange enough that I'm surprised it helped for someone else in the past.
- Closing and reloading iTunes also had no effect.
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maybe i missed something here. But heres my $0.02
you cannot change the order in the library it is true, except by sort.
you can change the order in playlists by simple drag 'n' drop.
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Have you tried creating a playlist for your album, then
select the playlist in iTunes.
right-click the playlist name -> select +copy to play order+. -> sync.

No arkwork and songs out of order

ok i think im not the only but i want this say to me in lameman terms lol, ok so i have everything checked with the artwork on my ipod and it wont let me load any artwork on my ipod, it shows up in my librey and my music part of itunes but when i disconnect my ipod and play it no artwork shows up.
now sense i updated everything on my ipod alot of my songs are out of order, there fine on itunes and in the librey but not on my ipod can someone help me out?
or are we going to have to wait till itunes 8?

There is a quicker way to restore your mixed up
artwork....
Connect ipod to computer,when ipod screen displays
click on
music tab (top center),untick 'Display album artwork
on your ipod' at the bottem of the list and press
'Apply' let it complete,then disconnect ipod.
Now repeat the above,only this time tick the box that
says
'Display album artwork on your ipod' and 'Apply'.This
works for my 30gig 5G with itunes 7 every time.
That only works if all your Ipod music is still in your Itunes library. When you deselect to view your album artwork on your Ipod and click APPLY, then all your album art gets deleted from your Ipod. When you re-apply to allow album art to be displayed on your Ipod it will only grab what is currently in your Itunes library.
Assuming you don't get that Error 50 message.
I had to reimport all the music and videos from my Ipod into Itunes then sync my Ipod to my Itunes library. Now I have all the album artwork without issue. But I have a 60GB hard drive and a 60GB Ipod. So doing that in the future won't work unless I buy an extra hard drive.

My music is organized on my computer but the songs under the albums are out of order on my ipod, they weren't before, i've restored, still out of order. what do i do to get them in order?

My music is organized on my computer but the songs under the albums are out of order on my ipod, they weren't before, i've restored, still out of order. what do i do to get them in order?

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I have purchased a new 6th generation ipod and registered it with Apple- it has loaded all my library onto the iPod but when the library is displayed all songs are greyed out and I cannot add a playlist. Can anyone help me ?

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