how the heck do I rearrange the order of my songs in playlist in iTunes 11????

I'm trying to figure this out too. Everything in this UI is so stupidly difficult to navigate and figure out! You need to be a programmer to figure it out! This iTunes 11 looks so Windows "esk" and it is a huge step (JUMP) back Apple. I can't even find the songs I just downloaded to put into specific folders I have. Apple, you need to fix this garbage ASAP! If it wasn't broke then don't fix it! Bring back iTunes 10.7!

I think the item you want when in a playlist is in the top menu

View, View options The a popup box appears where you can select which columns you want to appear. At the top is a Sort by drop down box with the options of

Manual Order

Album

Artist

These choices are determined by what columns you show

When you are viewing a playlist, select View Options from the View menu. The at the top you'll see "Sort By". Chooose "Manual". and you can drag your songs into your own order.

Thank you Steve for the info. This helped me out immensely. 🙂

Wow....I just spent the night sorting 5 hours worth of music in to a very specific order for a project. Upon checking the order, I didn't like where a particular song sat and decided to move it, which I suddenly couldnt (I admit to operator error, random quick key, etc) but could not for the life of me, figure out what i did wrong to suddenly no longer be able to move tracks....So, I came here to the forums, started monkeying around with sorting and now everything is completely out of order and I can't get it back to where I started. As soon as I checked and unchecked "manual" all **** broke lose......does this have to be so hard apple?....I'm basically trying to make a mix tape for gods sake....It was easier with vinyl and a casette player. I'm glad so many of you are getting paid to "expand" on these programs that don't need advanced features....i need to start looking for a different music managemant program....

I'm trying to do the same thing! I have my music is reverse manual order (I add new songs, they go to the top). It was just fine until about two days ago when I accidentally opened up iTunes and it re-synced my music. Now everything is backwards!

To add insult to injury, it's not backwards, it just automatically sorts by artists. There seems to be nothing I can do about it.

Select the PL - then select the column of the far left - with the numbers - make that the active choice and you can drag tunes to what order you want. Nothing has changed - this is the way iTunes has worked for many of the previous versions.

MJ

thx kilima, worked 😀

Hey Guys, I've tried everything above and nothing works! Also trying to add a song in to a playlist doesn't work with the drag&drop... please help! I need to organize a playlist urgently!

Suggest that you start your own topic - this one is from August.

MJ

Oh, I get it. Click on the only column that doesn't have a label. That's totally intuitive.

Check to make sure you do not have SHUFFLE turned on.

This is a very quick work around solution that I figured out tonight to resolve how to play a wedding playlist in a set order.

View your playlist tracks as a list. Right click and add 'Grouping' as an extra column. Then right click each track and add a,b,c etc to the info on each track. This takes seconds. Then click on "order by grouping" and Bob's your Uncle, you've got a quick list of tracks in the order you want them A - Z.

If you have more than 26 tracks to order then use your ingenuity eg AA1. Believe me this is quicker than faffing about waiting for an Apple programmer's solution.