I can't reorder songs in a playlist.

I'm at a total loss to understand how this relates to my comment which works every time when I have confronted one of my playlists which is not categorized as I indicated. Generally, I have this problem rarely so I suspect the default position, when establishing a list is properly indexed do that reordering works beautifully.

Are you, by any chance, a moderator for the Adobe Photoshop Community?

My dear Sir:

This thread has been maintained in continuity. What is most important is content rather than time. The person who posted, asked a valid question which still may concern some people using iTunes in the current version.

My comment may prove helpful to those people who mat encounter this same perplexing point in the most contemporaneous version, and as such it would be valued.

BTW, Leopards do not change their spots!

This doesn't work for me. Very frustrating.

Make sure you have Shuffle turned off.

Thank you Diane. The simplest things are the hardest to discover XD

Glad it helped you, HinoMusouka!

Diane, you smooth the sharp edges off the user experience here. "Make sure you have Shuffled turned off" is unobvious, and your comments are worth their weight in gold.

++ Diane !

This is so not obvious! Thanks for your help.

I learned this one the hard way! Racked my brain trying to figure it out. Happy to share any "secrets" I've learned. 😀

That was the ticket...thanks. So unlike apple. Not very intuitive. . .

1. Selected the header in the far left column (with the order numbers)

2. Grabbed the number of the song I wanted to move and moved it to where I wanted.

3. I was happy

The reason why you can't reorder in a specific playlist while in others you can is related to the way you have that playlist categorized in the VIEW heading in the menu. You might not have set it up the wrong way, as it, for whatever constellation of reasons, it is miscategorized in terms of sorting parameters.

Go to Menu/SORT BY, and check the first heading "By playlist order". If you have any one of the others, such as "by Album" selected, that trumps the ability to reorder by dragging. Invariably, you will see that in those playlists that you cannot reorder the PLAYLIST category is not selected.

This is by far and a way the most common source of the problem. Give that a shot!

+6 years later, Deppi wrote:

iTunes has changed a LOT in +6 years...

Deppi wrote:

I'm at a total loss to understand how this relates to my comment

I doubt the original poster is still seeking an answer after +6 years.