Track Order

This is exactly the same thing that has happened to me. Twice in the last month. Both albums were compilations--one the soundtrack to "Hot Fuzz" and the other a DJed album of dance music. The tracks are numbered correctly in the Get Info window on both albums. "Hot Fuzz" is in the order of artist name, but there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the sort order of the dance album. iTunes credited my account for the first album, but I don't want to press my luck with the other. The only way I've been able to get the order right is to make a separate playlist for each and just drag the songs to the correct order. This isn't a big deal on "Hot Fuzz," but since the dance album is mixed, the songs overlap and it sounds really stupid if they are out of order.

This is not an option in itunes. The only way to rectify the problem is to rename each track with a prefix so that the alphabetical order is the actual order. I have been trying to solve this problem for a couple of years, hoping that each itunes update will come with a fix, but nothing. As it turns out, if I had spent less time searching every forum and discussion on the web to solve this problem and just changed the names in the first place, I could have saved myself a ridiculous amount of time. Good luck.

I think I finally figured out how to do this with dance / mix albums. Go under "Get Info" and start put "track # - " before each entry under album artist. I tried changing the names, track numbers, number of discs, and artist to no avail. But when I started numbering the tracks in order under "album artist", they finally were put in order.

Another perk - the numbering (01, 02...) does not show up on the Library view unless you actually have "Album Artist" visible as a column.

I should note that I have my library selected to view by the album, not track or artist. Also, if the CD has multiple discs, if you use this fix you apparently need to add "Disc #" to the album name instead of relying on "Disc _ of _" in the Get Info screen.

Go under "Get Info" and start put "track # - " before each entry under album artist.

Album Artist should be the same for all songs on an album. This is what keeps it all together as one album.
If this is a Compilation album, put something such as Various or Compilation.
iTunes sorts on Album Artist, then Track #.

Sigh, you are correct. While my fix does make all the tracks appear in order from the library view, if you switch to the Cover Flow view, each track has its own album.

Josh Leet, have a look at this article. It has good examples.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

While my fix does make all the tracks appear in order from the library view, if you switch to the Cover Flow view, each track has its own album.

See the link Katrina posted.
Also, as I stated change the *Album Artist* on all the songs to Various.

Finally.


Thanks for that.

I had this same issue with a movie soundtrack. If you go into 'get info' and change the 'album artist' to say 'various artists', the tracks will go in number order.