Tracks sorted by date / album / track number

Hello,
I always display my tracks sorted by date added, because I like to see my newest records first. This way the new "album view", with the sleeve on the left of the tracks, looks good.
Except there is something really annoying, because it is sorted by date, it seems to be strictly sorted by date, and the tracks do not show in the correct order, more in the order, seond by second, they were added to the library.
Is there a way to make the tracks show by date added, but within one album sorted by song order ?
Thanks

The link should have taken you to my scripts page, where clicking on the name of the script should have given you a file to download called SortDateAdded.vbs. Assuming you saved this without changing the .vbs extension then I'm not sure why it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure Vista should support VBScript without any extra effort, but I'll have a hunt around and see what I can find out. Perhaps there is some optional component that was excluded during your Vista install.
Ah... try this link: http://colinwetherbee.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/vbscriptnotre.html
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Sort by date album order etc

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Sort by Artist - Album - Track Number

I could use some help pls. I have recently reinstalled and now all of a sudden iTunes is acting stupid. I want to sort by Artist -> Album -> Track Number. What is happening is it's sorting by Artist -> Album but the Track Numbers are backwards (listed 10 to 1).
Before you say it, it is NOT a tag issue!! I just spent the last two hours staring at a single album. Every instance of artist/album artist/disk x of y/year/genre/etc/etc are IDENTICAL. Every instance of everything that is not unique is absolutely identical!!
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Thanks...

Click on the Artist album header.
In the right side of the Artist album column header is a small triangle.
Click it so it points up. This will sort the albums track 1 thru track 10.
If the trianlge is pointing down, it will sort track 10 to track 1.
I click Artist with the arrow DEscending.
It's a triangle, not an arrow. The top of the triangle is smaller and the bottom is larger, just like the sort. Or vice-versa.
This used to automatically sort each Album under each Artist and within each Album the Tracks would be sorted numerically (1->10).
No, it has never worked as you suggest.
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How do I sort by date added while maintaining track order?

Hello,
I'm trying to do what I think is a simple function in ITunes. I'd like to sort by "date added" and have the tracks line up sequentially by track number. In other words, when in Itunes, I'd like to have (from top of the library to bottom) my most recent album with tracks 1-10, listed, and then the next recent album and so forth. Almost like a most recent album. You can of course sort by date added, and scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, but then when Ituns plays, you start on the most recent album, it runs through that album, and then is done.
Any thoughts?

If you ever find the answer, I'd love to know as well. How odd is it that you can do this. I tried several searches for this in software hacks, and applications that let you alter icon views and the like. Can't believe the limited interest in correcting it either.
I was looking for a way to display screen shots of various jpeg elements with files names that double as instructions in a tutorial. Icon view allowed me to see pictures in a large enough size to use as instructions with the corresponding file names. All I would have had to do was screen shots assembled into a PDF and I would have been done. Having to retype every instruction along with copy, and pasting into a new document and so forth is more than double the work for any set of pictorial instructions.
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After lots of attempts, I think I've found the solution that solves this problem (is it a BUG of the ipod software last update?).
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
===================
For some albums, ipod seams to be not able to sort songs by track number, no matter how you order the tracks through itunes.
This problem normally appears in albums that are NOT of the same artist (ex: soundtracks).
Once you upload on ipod (for ex.) your soundtrack, it can happen, when you browse the ipod in the following way:
(from the main menu): music -> albums -> <name of the album> -> <tracks list>
that the tracks list IN THE ipod appears NOT sorted by track number.
SOLUTION
========
This problem is due to a particular tag, "album artist": try to DELETE what is written in this tag for each song that doesn't appear in the correct order.
For those that are not aware about itunes:
1) open itunes when your ipod is connected to the pc
2) select a song ON THE IPOD that you notice is not in the right position
3) right click the mouse on it and the select "get info": a popup appears
4) select the "info" tag on this popup
5) delete what is written in the text area named "album artist"
6) click "ok"
TEST AND REMARK
================
Another suggestion, useful to test the result of this action through itunes.
It seams that ipod software makes a specific sequence of queries: when you select a specific album on your ipod, first it groups songs by album name (it seams a nonsense, because the songs that belong to the same album have, of course, the same album name), then by "album artist" and only at the end by track number.
So, if you delete the content of the tag "album artist", automatically ipod should sort all songs by track number.
Therefore, try to make this test: in itunes, in the ipod section, click on the colum "album" in order to sort your album by album name.
If the songs appear in the right order (that is, sorted by tracks), your should have solved the problem.
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Hi, welcome to Apple Discusions.
Is the album marked up as an audiobook by any chance?
See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp and http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp for more info.
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Simple sorting by track number

Hi. I have a little annoyance with the way things are sorted.
If I'm viewing an album, the magical first column (with no name) shows a 1 to n playlist number. It does not seem to be possible to sort by this number, and the tracks are force sorted according to one of the other 'named' columns.
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or
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Go to the location of the track on your PC, not iTunes, right click on the track and go to PROPERTIES, then DETAILS, and then unde MEDIA click # (track number) and make sure you set the track numbers in order. Its too bad you have to do it individually for all tracks but there has got to be a way to set track numbers for all tracks with one click. Okay, so as long as all the track numbers are in order 1,2,3... or however you want them to be because thats how iTunes sorts them. YOU MUST do this before you create a playlist in iTunes and if you already did, you may have to delete all tracks and follow the instrustions and then load em up in iTunes again. Hope this helps.

Importing CD to Artist folder\Album folder\file with track number and name:

I have a problem then importing my cd’s to my harddisk using iTunes.
On my previous pc I got what I want, Artist folder, Album folder and file with track number and name:
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Bump.

I just upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and it duplicated virtually every track in my music library. I need a quick way to delete the duplicates. Sorting by "Date Added" will not help because they are all listed as added on 12/12/2011.

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Track number in album view

hi,
i'm not sure how to explain this. i have a slightly annoying problem, that i am sure can't be resolved but it's worth a shot. i like the album list view. i hope it's called that. i click the list view, and the little arrow on the top left to get the album views. now that i have this open i get a column between the name of the song and the album image. this states the track number, although not the one from view option given by iTUnes. is there any way to disable this column?
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Description
Whenever I try to play a song, spotify will play the equivilant track number from the next album down, and to play the song I want to I have to play the equivilant track number from the preceeding album.
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