How do I arrange songs in album order?

Hey, I'm having the same problem too, I'm just posting in this form because it's had some attention. In iTunes, I make sure the tracks appear in the order which they do on the album, yet they are still listed alphabetically under album on the iPod after updating. Is there something I'm missing? If so, could someone please tell me how to do it. Thanks.

Windows XP

Clck at the top of the number column and then drag the tracks into the order you want

Left hand side beside name, click at the top of it

iTunes Tutorial
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/tutorial/index.html

Given the flexibility of iTunes in sorting, more definition about your problem is needed to avoid the "twenty questions" scenario.

However, if you have navigated to the "Artist" listing on iPod, then the individual tracks on each discrete album will be presented as the song tag data dictates. That is, if the song tag matches the album, then the iPod list will too.

But then, I'm not sure if you are looking at a playlist created during a rip, a downloaded album from iTMS, etc.

Does this help?

IPod just follows iTunes' order.
So you need to arrange your songs from iTunes and sync again.
Just clicking any top colums will change the song orders.
It's like toggle switch.
If you click 'Album', then all songs will be sorted as 'Album' order (alphabetical), click again then you'll get backward 'Album' order.

You must ensure that the track information has the correct track number for each song.

In the Artists menu on the iPod, Artists are in aplhabetical order.. then Albums in A-Z order within those Artists.. then individual songs on the album are sorted by track number. To reposition songs, you need to change the track numbers in iTunes.

Once you have rearranged the songs in iTunes on your PC, the changes will be transferred when you update your iPod.

By the way, you'd be better posting iTunes questions in the iTunes forum

I'd put the coffee pot on... there's no faster method that I know about. 🙂

If someone else can suggest something, I'd also be grateful. I've been putting off doing this on some Artists in my collection for months...

If you highlight all the tracks in a list and then go to Get Info, you can put in the total number of tracks. However after that you have to number each track individually but you save yourself having to fill in two boxes per track.
Multiple Editing is good for adding artist, album, year or genre information etc for a whole list as well.