iTunes on El Capitan.
When in "album" mode, songs play backwards. E.g. - if I start playback on the 10th song on the album, the next played song is number 9, etc.
Also, the NEXT and PREVIOUS "buttons" are switched. If I click NEXT it plays the PREVIOUS song, and vice versa. ***?
This only happens in album mode.
Cheers.
This appears to be a long-standing bug that occurs when specific sort orders are selected in Albums view (e.g, if ordered by Year in descending sequence) and you start by playing a song within an album - this seems to be a side effect of the ordering that happens in Songs view (where sorting by descending Year also inverts track number order). Playing the album itself should get the play order correct independent of sort order.
There was a discussion of this issue over on the Windows forum a couple of days ago - it seems that the bug's been present in iTunes for several years 😟. May still, though, be worth reporting through the iTunes Feedback page.
Sorry, I made a mistake in my original post, this happens in artist view, not album. I tried clicking around, changing views and sorting orders, but as soon as I switch back to artist view, the song playback order is inverted, and PREV / NEXT buttons also.
Thank you for your time!
BUMP. This is so annoying... Anyone?
Switch to the songs view and make sure that whichever column your list is sorted on that it is an ascending sort, so the small triangle points upwards. Now go back to your other view. Albums should play in order.
tt2
As I clarified in my second post (sorry), this happens in ARTIST view, not album. I tried switching to songs view, and the sort is indeed ascending.The problem remains.
What's weird is that this happens only if I select an actual artist in the leftmost column. If I select "recently aded" or "all artists" then playback is as expected in artist view.
Added screenshot for clarification.
Apologies, in this case the sort orders are independent for the two views. Try opening the view drop down box and ensure you're using an ascending order here. If I select descending order then the tracks play in reverse order.
tt2
Thank you, that fixed it!
But isn't this quite counterintuitive? I had my view set to Year -> Descending, because (probably) I wanted the most recent album at the top. It makes no sense that this makes songs play in reverse order 🙂
Anyway, thanks a lot!
Cheers
Yes, one would expect playback order to match the order on screen. There was a similar bug I reported with the old grid view over 5 years ago. That one never got fixed. 😕
tt2
If you open a play list and look at the upper right hand corner you will see Playlist in small font with a downward arrow.
Click this and at the bottom select Sort by Order and switch the order to ascending. This will fix it!
Songs played in opposite order in "album" mode
