iTunes 10.2.2 displaying tracks out of order

where do u find 'sort album by title' thing?

NJH13 wrote:

where do u find 'sort album by title' thing?

There is no "'sort album by title' thing" That was so 2.5 years ago.

iTunes menu View > Show View options.

Click Sort by and select Album.

Well, I had this issue with a compilation album, and all I had to do to fix it was change the "Part of a compilation" option to "No". Pretty weird, but it worked...

I still don't understand why selecting "Yes" for that option would change the order in the first place...

I tried this with a compilation album, and it split the album up into individual tracks, so every track is its own album!

(Although, as per advice on this thread, I had previously made the 'Album Artist' field blank. After restoring Album Artist to 'Various Artists,' I tried again setting Part of a Compilation to No, and, while it kept the album intact, tracks were still not ordered by number.)

Ah, sorted. Select all tracks / Get Info / Sorting / make all entries blank and tick all boxes / OK.

For more on this topic see Grouping tracks into albums.

tt2

I agree, this should be easier....

when I convert an audiobook to itunes it does not putting tracks in order, shows 1 then 10... 12, 13, 14, 2, 20, 21, 22, 3......

I can add letters to the tracks to force them into order but that will take too much time, audiobooks...... sometimes 28 tracks to 15 cds... I'm not a teen with lots of time to waste....

it managed one audio book correctly and began this sequence, now it does all books this way

and, since I don't seem to be able to ask a new question on the board, when unloading an audiobook, used to be you could see the progress of the conversion, is that gone? since it is so slow it was handy to know how much more time was needed, now I can't find any way to track the progress of the conversion, sometimes a long time with an audiobook... is that another thing will not like about the new itunes?

though, it no longer loses files faster than I can upload them ;-) that is nice

and how to ask a question on the discussion board?

I wasted a lot of time searching this question, this discussion came up, "clicked" on it but nothing opened

tab at bottom says "ask a question" I clicked on that and nothing happened

is there some tab I am not seeing?

It looks like you are sorting on the track name instead of track number or as Album by Artist which is generally the most useful order. If the track numbers are completed correctly then a numeric sort on that column will work. For an alphabetic sort to work on the names you need to pad out the numbers less than 10 with a leading space or zero, or set sort names accordingly. There are scripts that can help with such repetitive tasks once you know exactly what changes need to be made. I've written several for Windows, but see http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ for scripts for OS X. See also Audiobooks on iPods.

tt2

I had not adjusted how tracts were sorting, one cd was converted correctly, the next two with no change in any setting, were not

the window is set to sort by "albums"

I was not changing or entering track numbers, they are exactly as they were copied to "Music" (and fine there) then opened in itunes to convert

to enter tracks for each CD, would take longer than I have, often 26 to each cd

my inquiry had to do with not wanting to have to renumber each track for a cd, often 15 cds to a book

all of this used to work.....

will look at the links, thank you

found the one cd that did convert correctly, when moved to my ipod, skipped tracks at the end of each disc, then told me there was not room for all, while I had plenty of room left on the ipod....

clearly more than one problem going on...

This happened to me recently, and I found a way to fix it with a few easy steps:

Step 1. Check the folder you imported the songs from. Right click on it and make sure that it isn't read-only. If it is in read-only, you wouldn't be able to edit anything on your iTunes.

Step 2. Highlight all the tracks from the album and change EVERYTHING except the title and number of tracks; change the artist, album artist, genre, etc to something else entirely. It may be any random word. Then, change it back to the correct artist/album artist. That should do the trick.

Thanks June I was having the same problem your solution fixed the problem.

Kind regards Mike.

I figured it out!

What you have to do (it's very painful, but it WILL work), you need to go through the songs in order of how they should be.

What you need to do is right click on the song, and click "Get Info". Then, you click "Sorting" to the right, and you will see ten rows of

text boxes. Tap "Sort As", then type in the number of where it would be in the order of the Soundtrack/Album. BUT, for the single digit numbers, you must have a zero before each one. (01,02,03,04,etc.)

That's it!

for me this issue was because of the values in some of my songs (which were itunes downloads). right-click the song, Get Info, go to Sorting tab, and in the "sort as" fields I had some metadata pertaining to the albums the songs came from. i didn't need those since i copied these tracks into my own mix album. so removing the extra metadata made it stop sorting them differently.

i dont think this is a bug. iTunes is just sorting based on the metadata present. fix the metadata and it behaves as expected.

I have had the same problem with Beethoven symphonies. The first 3 movements of Symphony #1 are in order, but then the 4th movement is down following Symphony #9. This only happens in the "Name" column view; the order is correct under "Album" column view. They also appear in order in my iTunes Media folder. I have gone into the info and made ABSOLUTELY sure that EVERYTHING is correct. I finally fixed this only after deleting the tracks and re-importing them (luckily I have the original CD). What a huge waste of time.