Sorting Albums in alphabetic order on iPad

I set up a set of Albums in iPhotos on my iMac. Later I added a new album and it went to the bottom of the list of albums on the left side of screen. I physically dragged that last album up among the other albums to put it in alpha order. All well and good.
Problem is when I sync my iPad, that last album doses not appear in alpha order
; it stays at bottom of group.
Please help me put this and future albums in alpha order. Thanks

My iPad 2 and iPhone 4 are on iOS 6.0.1 (was on iTunes 10.7, recently updated to 11) and most of my smart lists are sorted as in iTunes. The ones that don't seem to be sorted correctly are those which are limited in size by number of songs (e.g. "Limit to 25 songs"). Playlists that are limited by capacity (e.g. "Limit to 500 MB") seem to have the same sort order as in iTunes.
I'm not sure if this matches your conditions, but if you have not done so already then try adding either of the criteria:
"Playlist is Music" (which is the general Music category, which can serve as a playlist name), or
"Media Kind is Music"
See if either of those help you, and be sure to re-save the playlist's sort order in iTunes before syncing your iPad.

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I don't have iPhoto on my iPad, so I can't help with that, but you must have looked at advice for a Mac computer? Maybe browse the iPhoto for iOS forum?
https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iphoto_for_ios?view=discussion s

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is it possible to organize the mobileme albums in alphabetical order in iPhoto?

No, not automatically. You an move them manually and then republish and that should rearrange the order online.
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Sort albums in recorded order?

This is one thing that annoys me and hopefully there's a solution. Perhaps a script?
Some albums (say Dark Side of the Moon for instance) MUST be played in the order that was on the album/tape/CD, whatever. I have a huge library and would love to be able to sort the albums I have in the order they SHOULD be. I already spend waaaay too much time sorting my library and making sure everything is perfect but, I can only get so anal about it.
Is there possibly a script that could sort albums into the order that the artists recorded them in? I'm thinking something that could search Amazon for albums, see the order of the songs and sort accordingly. Nice thought eh? I realize the odds of this being around are about nil but, is there any progress on something like this or a place to look? Doug's Scripts doesn't have anything that I can see along these lines.

On some tunes, yes. On others, no. Some have track
numbers in correct order. Some have no track numbers.
Aha. If you have albums without track numbers, well of course iTunes won't play them in the correct order — it doesn't know what the correct order is! Every album track needs to have the "Track Number X of Y" fields filled out; otherwise, iTunes has no way of ordering the tracks within an album.
These fields should be filled in automatically when iTunes rips your CDs, since all of the track numbers are available from the CDDB. If they're not, then, yes, you'll need to edit them by hand. (I can say for sure that "Dark Side of the Moon" is in the CDDB, though, so re-importing the CD while you're connected to the internet should get you your track numbers.)

I've tried everything I can think of to get my Iphone 4S to play albums like an Ipod does. All it ever does is play the songs but not the albums in alphabetical order. I used to think I was reasonably intelligent until I butted heads with this phone.

I've tried everything I can think of to get my Iphone 4S to play albums like an Ipod does. All it ever does is play the songs but not the albums in alphabetical order. I used to think I was reasonably intelligent until I butted heads with this phone.

Yes i've tried all of that. I've turned it all the way on and off and erased all of my music and put it back on and nothing works. And with the breaking up CDs and putting into compilation categories i have already fixed all of that stuff. It's fine it just doesn't show up in the list of artists. I can find the album in the songs category and the albums category it's just it doesn't show tha name of the artist. All of the other albums that i downloaded before i updated my itunes to th most recent update are fine. It's just the two that i downloaded afterwards. Thanks for trying though.

Re-sorting albums in chronological order?

I used to have all my iPhoto '09 albums organized in chronological order, I just added a new one to the bottom every month or so.
Unfortunately, I did something and now they're all in alphabetical order:
April 2008
April 2009
August 2008
August 2009
You get the idea.
How can I re-sort them into chronological order?

do it manually
or
rename them so the alpha sort works
2009-08-31
2009-08-21
2009-07-04
etc
There is no date sort - on alpha and it can not be undone
Suggest to Apple -- iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
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Thank you for bringing this up and for the useful info - I have found the updated iTunes incredibly muddling. Why, if they were going to change it, didn't they improve it instead of make it less useable?
I have over 4000 'songs' and most are classical, and I, too, spent years cataloguing them with composer name, conductor, orchestra, etc. so that iTunes could sort them in a way that was useful to me and easy to find. Now, the grid with albums is not in any particular order at all - how do you find something like that?
What I find to be the biggest problem of all in the update: you can no longer search for a particular 'song' by a word in title, album title, composer/artist, etc. just by typing it in the search box and searching all of your tracks - that list is no longer there. As far as I can make out, you can only search through particular playlists. If anyone has any information about this, I would be so grateful! - Thanks.
(p.s. - I know that this section is iTunes for Windows, but I have a Mac and I have not found the answer to my question anywhere)

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In list view - click the "Album" heading to sort in ascending or descending order
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Sort 'albums' to date order

I recently upgraded to OS Yosemite X and my photos transferred from iPhotos to Photos. Frankly, Photos is a mess and not user friendly.
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I agree. Have experienced exactly the same. I have spent hours manually sorting Albums into order - why is there no option to sort by date? Asked in Apple Store and they could not answer. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon.
Also found that when photos are in Albums there is no way of editing - can only be done in Photos.
Can't merge Albums either.
Can't save emailed photos to Photo either - there's an option to do that but it does't appear to work - I don't know where it's sent.
It's a not at all user friendly. Photos are sorted how Apple think you want to see them i.e. en masse and in date order on Photos - I DON'T WANT THAT.
It wasn't made clear on the update to Yosemite that such a drastic change would happen - I wish I hadn't updated.

Put albums in alphabet order

Hello again:
How can I line up my albums A-Z?
John

Right click (control click) on an album in the source pane to the left of the iPhoto window and select sort albums
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After a long overdue update to my ipod touch I've noticed that when I select an artist my songs are now grouped by album as opposed to alphabetically. Wondering if its possible to change this as I cant find any options or information on this myself.
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Hey there,
first off, why isn't there a a community for the new Photos app?
Anyway, here is my problem:
How can i sort my albums on the new Photos app on iOS?
I think it's not possible at the moment.
I am using the iCloud Photo library and uploadet all of my 15.000 photos from the last 15 years.
And because of that, i now have many many albums on Photos now.
Overall i love the new app and i love the iCloud Photo library, but i cannot sort my albums on the iOS app automatically in alphabetical order.
I can sort albums manual, but who wants that, when you have so many of them???
I have Photos on my Mac too and there i am able to do sort them in alphabetical order. But it is not adopted to iOS or the iCloud Web-App.
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Moments in Photo are the new Events. T
here's a way to simulate events in Photos.
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When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window showing all of the albums.
The downside to this simulation is that the Album/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title while viewed in the Folder in the main window or in the sidebar. But they can be sorted manually.
Ask Apple for more sorting options in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

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