Sort by CD, then by track#

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with iTunes (again).. I have an album X (Sensation White), in this album X I have 2 CDs, 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 (obvious).
But you have to listen the songs in a specific order so it will sound like 1 big mix. I made a new playlist, called sensation white, and imported the 2 cd's (with a minute between them so you can sort them by CD according to the adding time). But I want them to sort by tracknumber, because now it's like 3,6,1,2,7,etc. Not in the correct order.
How can I do this? I allready added in 'info' of the first cd that's it #track# of 12 and for cd2 #track# of 14, because it has 12 or 14 songs in it. And I said that it's cd 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. But how to sort them now? Can I use 2 sorting fields at once or...
I'm really having struggle with iTunes, it just doesn't work the way I want it to
Thanks in advance,
Jelmer

It's a mix album, so it has different artists for different tracks. First make sure (as you have done) that you select all tracks of disc 1 and enter the disc numbers as *Disc 1 or 2* and repeat for disc 2 as *Disc 2 of 2*. Then select all tracks of both discs and make sure to set the *Album Artist* to something sensible, e.g. *Various Artists* or the DJ who made the mix. Make sure to set the Album value to the same thing for both discs. Also, on the Options tab, set *Part of a compilation* to Yes.
If things still don't link up properly work slowly through the article Polydorus pointed out earlier. Sort fields with random values or invisible spaces are particularly frustrating.
My personal preference is to renumber the tracks on the second and/or subsequent discs so that the numbers are in sequence across the whole album, e.g. 1-26 instead of 1-12 on one disc and 1-14 on another. I've made a script called AddToTrackNumber to assist with renumbering. In this example you would select the tracks of the second disc, call the script and enter 12, being the number of tracks on the first disc. Once the tracks have been renumbered you can select the whole album and enter 26 into the box for the total number of tracks so it reads *Track [ ] of 26*
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