In classical music with multiple movements why does itunes often rearrange the order in the Library and playlists?
iTunes-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Macbook Pro
It's a question of how the movements - which come as individual files - are named. You may need to rename them. If you were copying from a CD for example, you would want to do it along the lines of
Symphony No.1 Movt. 1 Allegro
Symphony No.1 Movt. 2 Andante
Symphony No.1 Movt. 3 Scherzo and so on.
Even so if you sort by title only you'll get everyone's first symphonies muddled up together. You can put them in individual albums, but it might also be advisable to add the composer's name on the front as well:
Beethoven Symphony No.1 Movt. 1 Allegro
iTunes was never really designed for classical music, so it takes a little more fiddling about to get it to work than with popular music.
Use the Get Info function in iTunes to enter the track numbers of the movements.
Right click on the first movement select Get Info then enter "1" for the track number.
Repeat for each track.
The tracks will now be in the proper order. Just don't sort on track name.
Dan
iTunes will sort any playlist according to the tab you are selected on. Make sure you are sorting it correctly before attempting to play.
None of the above methods work. I think that iTune is not designed for classical music. Too bad!
What I do to "fix" that is: if you buy from iTunes, burn the music (with multiple movements) on a disk, turn around and install same disk but merge the tracks first and put in your playlist (say Beethoven Symphonies) and rename each piece of music (Symphony #1, #2, etc.). The original purchase is still fragmented in your library (and under purchased) but your merged file is in your playlist that you might sync to a mobile device. That's how I got around it.
What I did was as below.
In Get Info, installed numbers as Dvorak String Quartet Movt. 1, Dvorak String Quartet Movt. 2 to Movt. 8 in order, then turned off Shuffle in the Controls menu.
It worked. Thank you!
As I had tons of classical music pieces in my iTune, tried simplifying solutions. See what I found.
We just have to "turn off Shuffle" then all movements play in order.
In classical music with multiple movements why does iTunes rearrange the order in the library? How do you fix this?
