Tracks separated at birth - help!

Question

Level 4

2,786 points

Tracks separated at birth - help!

I'm sure than some iTunes expert can assist on this.

I imported Beethoven's symphonies (conducted by Bruggen) with no problem on movements 1-8, but 9 presents problems. The 4th movement Bruggen version is separated into ten sections. The iTunes list looks like this:

Line 1: 4th movement, part 6

Line 2: 4th movement, part 7

Line 3: 4th movement, part 8

Line 4: 4th movement, part 9

Line 5: 4th movement, part 10

Line 6: 4th movement, part 1

Line 7: 4th movement, part 2

Line 8: 4th movement, part 3

Line 9: 4th movement, part 4

Line 10: 4th movement, part 5

As you can tell, the movement is out of sequence. I'd like parts 1 to 10 to be sequential in iTunes, but I'm note sure how to do this - or indeed, how they ended up this way in the first place. How do I fix this in iTunes?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 12:39 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

ragulto13

Level 1

55 points

Aug 8, 2011 12:47 PM in response to Poikkeus

Add "0" to single digit part number. Instead of "part 1", make it "part 01". See if that works.

Reply

Answer 2

Poikkeus Author

Level 4

2,786 points

Aug 8, 2011 1:06 PM in response to ragulto13

Good suggestion.

I did a Cmd-i in iTunes, and renumbered the Track numbers using the "01," etc - but it didn't result in any changes in the movement order. Just for fun, I did the same thing with Disk Number, but the movement order remains the same.

The line numbers are supposed to correspond to the info in the pic, though the iTunes pic only contains a limited amount of info.

Reply

Answer 3

Poikkeus Author

Level 4

2,786 points

Aug 8, 2011 1:31 PM in response to Poikkeus

Fixed - but an obscure solution.

I highlighted the ten tracks in the movement in iTunes, then did a Control-click to bring up a contextual menu.The menu was familiar, one of them - ID4 tags - was not, This menu converts your ID4 tags to an older version. (There are about five different versions listed.) I chose version 1.0 of the ID4 tags, since the CD itself was several years old.

Amazing! Changing the ID4 tags to an old version will reorder the tracks - and in my case, it was exactly what was needed.

I guess this is significant info if, like, you have old CDs.

Reply