Track order gets re-arranged

when i download some whole albums, i find that my Itunes puts the songs in alphabetical order! This will not do.
Is there anyway to manually arrange the track order in the itunes library? for example, if I sort alpha by artist, can i set up the albums in the correct track order?
it seems unnecessary to make playlists. i want to just scroll through artists, then choose a record, then play it--like the old days-- but i need the song order to be correct for that album. This is especially true on my ipod. Imagine listening to abbey road out of track order! horrible.
Can anyone help me with this?

Try this, I found that it works for me. Right click at the top of any column in your iTunes library and choose **Track Number** from the list. Click at the top of this new column to sort it and after that click on the Album column. If you like you can then click on Artist which is how I prefer mine ordered, it will continue to hold the track order as well. Afterwards anything you import should follow this arrangement Artist>Album>Track Number within Album (you can hide the track number column when you've done if you don't want it cluttering up the view)

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