CD tracks being burned in reverse order: The solution

I don't think there is any glitch at all.

Once you have made a Playlist of your selection, you can move the songs around in any order you like in that playlist, after you have clicked on the column to the far left where you see the arrow. You must keep that highlighted as you move the songs in the order you want.
Once you have it in the order you want, Burn it, and it should stick to that order.

cuddlymogwai - Many many thanks - this was driving me crazy!!!



24Golfer - not really sure what you are referring to, itunes is burning the reverse order that is specified in the playlist when you use the "New Playlist From Selection" option.

It's important in the playlist that the track order column is selected with the little arrow pointing up.
It's equally important when burning the same track order.

Thanks mate, but the arrow was 100% pointing up when it burned in reverse order.

Carlito000 ,

may be there's a glitch in your version within Windoze.

With the arrow shown in the above, I've never had problems.

Guys, there is a major bug in grid view as it seems (see thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12228119). Most (not all…!) of my albums play in reverse mode. Absolutely annoying. I guess your "reverse burning mode" is also related with that issue here.

I think I have cracked this.

Before creating a playlist from the list of music imported, click on the date column so that the newest imports are at the bottom of the list rather than the top. They will then be in the correct order when you select your tracks and create a playlist and the arrow above the track numbers column will be pointing up. They will then burn in the correct order.

I've had similar problems. In fact sometimes iTunes would insist in burning the tracks in a seemingly random order, although it was very consistent in the way it would do this. I found a solution that worked for me.

First I had to open the "info" dialog for each song in the playlist and make sure that each track was correctly assigned its place in the album ("1 of 12" "2 of 12," etc). Even then the playlist would burn out of order.

But then, if I selected all the tracks and created a new playlist, and burned that, the CD would burn correctly.

I hope this works for you, too, if you haven't given up on iTunes altogether. I feel like mailing my large stack of silver coasters to Steve Jobs, with instructions on how and where to insert them.

There's definitely a bug here somewhere. I'm not new to this, I got my first Mac in 1984 and I've burned thousands of CDs. At any moment, I have 4 macs on my desk, 3 MacBooks and a Mini. I have imported the same cd to all 4 macs and configured the Play list in exactly the same fashion. Indeed, even though the tracks are all displayed correctly and in the correct order, my MacBook 17" insists on burning them in reverse order. I assure you, this has nothing to do with the "sort" order that people keep referring to in these posts. The tracks are all named and ordered correctly.

The problem seems to have something to do with selecting tracks in the music library and then selecting "Make playlist from selection". When this method is used, while it creates the playlist in the correct order, it burns them in reverse (every time).

As some suggested here, if you create the play list manually, i.e., Create New Play list (not from selection). Name the playlist and drag the items in individually in order, the play list burns in the correct order.

It's a crappy workaround and obviously a bug with Apples "Create playlist from selection" function. Amazing they haven't stepped in to offer support with this, really.

I too have a stack of shiny silver coasters I'd like to send to Steve.

🙂

Hope this helps someone else.

Here are the basic Differences 10.1.1 (4)

Still checking this out, but looking to see if it has something to do with specific versions of iTunes. If anyone else has any data, might be good to post here.

This is what I know.

MacBook 12" G4 running iTunes 10.1 (54) No problem creating playlist from selection, cd's burn in proper order.

Mac Mini running iTunes 10.0.1 (22) No problem creating playlist from selection, cd's burn in proper order.

MacBook Pro 17" running iTunes 10.1.1 (4) Burns audio cds in reverse order when "Create Playlist from Selection" has been used. (works if create playlists manually)