BigEddieStyle

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

this new iTunes 11 seems so carelessly thought out. *** apple?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7), iphone 3.0

Posted on Dec 10, 2012 8:31 PM

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

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  • by Silverback50,

    Silverback50 Silverback50 Mar 24, 2014 5:48 AM in response to BigEddieStyle
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    Mar 24, 2014 5:48 AM in response to BigEddieStyle

    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.

  • by EDEW,

    EDEW EDEW Mar 30, 2014 5:40 PM in response to kilima
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    Mar 30, 2014 5:40 PM in response to kilima

    The weird thing is when I click on the "Sort by" to set it to Manual, the list got resorted to the way I wanted. It was set as default sorted by "Artist" which is sort of all right.

     

    Another weird event was when I sorted in other orders, some of the pieces went missing. I can tell because the scroll bar on the right got larger, indicating fewer pieces on the playlist. I'll just keep this playlist in "Manual" sort mode, I guess.

  • by music_is_my_religion,

    music_is_my_religion music_is_my_religion May 10, 2014 8:06 AM in response to kilima
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    May 10, 2014 8:06 AM in response to kilima

    Thank you kilima for posting the solution!  It saved me from a lot of frustration!

  • by music_is_my_religion,

    music_is_my_religion music_is_my_religion May 10, 2014 8:07 AM in response to Steve Taylor1
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    May 10, 2014 8:07 AM in response to Steve Taylor1

    Thank you Steve for guiding me to the solution!  Yours and kilima's post saved me from a lot of frustration!

  • by IndianaAway,

    IndianaAway IndianaAway Jun 11, 2014 7:52 PM in response to George Gibson
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    Jun 11, 2014 7:52 PM in response to George Gibson

    This is exactly why Developers suck as coding interfaces.  They need people who actually use the product looking over their shoulder.  Developers also suck at QA.

     

    i.e. bottom line here for those on version 11.1.5.5 as it scrolls by at light speed in the help area....... click on the first column which it the number of the songs in order, once the sort arrow is indicated up or down, it will then sort by the number and THEN you can drag them in the order you want.  What idiot made that requirement?!

     

    Oh...BTW Tim Cook....  Doing a 7 for 1 stock split isnt going to make people buy your stock.  Try coming up with something new.

  • by jennyandlynn,

    jennyandlynn jennyandlynn Sep 3, 2014 7:11 PM in response to Steve Taylor1
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    Sep 3, 2014 7:11 PM in response to Steve Taylor1

    i couldn't remember how to reorder my playlist, and searched for it here.

    Thanks Steve Taylor1.

     

    -jen

  • by CandyDanCan,

    CandyDanCan CandyDanCan Jan 22, 2015 12:45 PM in response to BigEddieStyle
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    Jan 22, 2015 12:45 PM in response to BigEddieStyle

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    Click the box I have circled out so you get the 'Ascending' and 'Descending' arrows appear

  • by Hobbit_CZ,

    Hobbit_CZ Hobbit_CZ Mar 9, 2016 12:41 PM in response to CandyDanCan
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    Mar 9, 2016 12:41 PM in response to CandyDanCan

    Nothing appear there if you are in iTunes 12, there is also no manual order in View Options anymore. I have one album, three tracks there, track names are cd1 cd2 cd3, EVERYTHING is the same in song info (artist, album) track names are Track 1, Track 2, Track 3. That @&$@#@^#^@#!!! software keeps sorting it:

    Track 2

    Track 1

    Track 3

     

    I would like to meet the "great" guy who was responsible to launch such piece of crappy software under Apple name. WHY THE **** if they are so stupid to sort it properly, cannot just click and move it to the right position in the playlist. Is there any reason except **** people off by removing this feature??

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Mar 9, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Hobbit_CZ
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    Mar 9, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Hobbit_CZ

    Hobbit_CZ wrote:

     

    Nothing appear there if you are in iTunes 12, there is also no manual order in View Options anymore.

    Select the playlist.
    Then select Songs at top right, select the first column with the numbers then drag the tracks in the order you want.

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