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Hey all! First off, I am running a Windows XP machine.
I think iTunes is a great music organization tool, but the biggest gripe that I've always had with it is editing track numbers.
What I like to do is import customized music folders and assign each file a track number. Now, let's say I skip a number by mistake (i.e. 11, 13, 14), or I want to add another track later into the middle of the album. The only way I know how to fix this is to change each track number manually, which can get really tedious with albums consisting of over 100 songs.
So, is there an easier way to do this? For instance, is there a way to change one track number and have the others below it increase/decrease by one?

This was a very useful tool, so thanks for the link!
The Auto-Numbering wizard does work, but not exactly in the way I want. From what I could tell, you can only sort your tracks by Title, Artist, Filename, etc., and then using the wizard as opposed to clicking and dragging your files to the order that you want and using it that way.
I tried looking around for other tools that would do a click-and-drag option like that after you gave me that link, but no such luck.
Any other easy solutions?

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> Having trouble converting array to spreadsheet string, storing the
> file and coverting back to array with complex numbers
>
> I am working with a network analyzer. I have arrays made of 5 columns
> the first consisting of an integer and the next four consisting of
> complex numbers. I am converting the array into a spreadsheet string
> and then saving the file using the write characters to a file VI. That
> seems to work well as when I open the file in Excel all the data is
> there. However when I try to reverse the process, open file and
> convert back to array, I loose some of the data. Specifically the
> imaginary parts of my complex numbers are all going to zero. I have
> narrowed down the problem to be in the conversion from spreadsheet
> string to array and vice versa. I think the problem may be with the
> 'format' input to the VI. I do not have an adequate resource for this
> so I am not sure what to put in to accomplish my task. Any takers?
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