how to LOCK playlist order so it can't be rearranged?

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how to LOCK playlist order so it can't be rearranged?

I downloaded an entire album, and it went into my music library, and I made a playlist for it so I could listen to it "by itself"--and in one mindless click i managed to rearrange the songs, and "track order" is not an option that I'm aware of! I had to go back to the iTunes store and look it up so I could manually arrange the tracks in the order of the album.
After reading a lot of other posts about ordering songs, I'm wondering if there's somethng I'm missing about where to put music I download?
But mostly, I'm interested in having full albums play in the order they were recorded, and a way for me to not be able to rearrange them except with some forethought.
Any ideas?
Thanks...

Windows XP Pro

Posted on Sep 16, 2007 12:37 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 16, 2007 4:21 PM in response to lisaleopard

It's easy to arrange your music in a variety of ways with iTunes. And if you do so accidentally and want to change it back to the way it was, it should be just as easy.

In your case if you click on the arrow in the Album column heading of the main iTunes display so that it's pointing up, you should find the songs in the proper order.

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Answer 2

Dec 14, 2007 8:03 AM in response to lisaleopard

I liked your question - but mine goes a little further. I want to LOCK in the playlist order - not just by album order. I create playlists specifically to teach several 90 minute yoga classes. Sometimes I might be in my Music Library - I'll sort by Artist - then by accident click on my Yoga playlist. It will also resort that by Artist order - and I can't get my original order back. It's happen too often - gotten me so frustrated. I need to figure out how to LOCK in a playlist order.

Any ideas?

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Answer 3

Dec 14, 2007 10:13 AM in response to LeslieInVA

I don't know if you can "Lock" a playlist in a certain order ... but you could always export the playlist in the order you want, and if you accidentally re-sort it again, just delete the playlist, then import it.

A longer, more permanent way would be to edit the tags of all the files in that playlist so that they have 01,02,03,etc in all of the "Sort" options. But this would effect everywhere these tracks appear, so you may want to make copies just for this playlist.

The only other option is to just play around in iTunes and see if you can find a way that fits you.

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