itunes playing albums backwards

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itunes playing albums backwards

A couple of weeks ago, all of a sudden, my tracks started playing in a backwards order. When I play the first song of an album, itunes somehow identifies it as the last song, and after that song is over, playback ends. If i start playing the second song, and I press the 'next' button, it goes to the first song and the playback ends after that song. If I'm in the artist view, and i have multiple albums of that artist, after the first song of an album, playback continues on to the last song of the next album.

How can i fix this??? I'm running itunes 12.2.2 in a Mac OS X Lion

Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 2, 2016 5:41 AM

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turingtest2

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May 2, 2016 7:07 AM in response to yoyeras

Switch to the Songs view and make sure you are using an ascending sort order. You will find a small triangle at the top of the current sort column. Click this to reverse the sort order. You should find playback now works correctly too.

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yoyeras Author

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May 2, 2016 8:43 AM in response to turingtest2

it is in ascending order, in songs view is all fine.. my problem is with the artist view.

I also had the problem with the albums grid view, but read some other forum threads and realized that there is indeed a bug with that and have to sort it by rating or something else for it to work fine...

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Answer 3

Nov 29, 2016 7:07 PM in response to yoyeras

If you still haven't fixed this...

1) close and re-open iTunes

2) view your music from the songs mode tab on the left

3) sort the albums tab by "ascending"

4) sort the artists tab by "ascending"

This should fix your problem and have songs playing in the numerical order when in the artists mode.

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Answer 4

Dec 10, 2016 1:07 AM in response to yoyeras

It seems like some update changed the order that iTunes plays an album if your 'view options' are set as 'decreasing'. If so, iTunes will oddly play the albums backwards. For me it does not make any sense, since view and playback options should be separated. I think this way because I would like to see the albums by year and by decreasing order, but to keep the album's original playback order, like any CD player would do. Anyway, to finally answer your question, you just have to set you 'view options' to 'ascending'.

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amc44

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Apr 12, 2017 12:39 PM in response to yoyeras

In the "Songs" view, go to the menu bar, and set:

View --> Sort by --> Ascending

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