This is bullshit. iTunes has fucked with me so many times. About a year and a half ago, all my music disappeared from my iTunes library like magic. I searched all over my computer for the backup files with no luck. But luckily my iPod still had all my songs, and I was able to transfer them back over with a new program I downloaded. Fast forward to now. My computer gets a new motherboard, some of my albums have been cloned for some reason; meaning I'd have the same song on the library twice! So I had to manually delete the cloned songs one by one. That was kind of a pain. Not only that, but some of the albums I downloaded were not there, so I had to go back to the backup files folder and re-enter them back onto my song library. No big deal, right? Wrong The songs are not arranging themselves in the proper album order in my library! I don't get it. The files are named by the number of the track on the album, for example: 01 Best Friend -The Drums 02 Me and the Moon - The Drums 03 Lets go surfing -The drums 04 Book of Stories - The Drums 05 Skippin' Town - The Drums 06 Forever and Ever Amen - The Drums 07 Down by the Water - The Drums 08 It will all end in Tears - The Drums 09 We Tried - The Drums 10 I need fun in my life - The Drums 11 I'll never drop my sword - The Drums 12 The Future - The Drums As I place these songs into my library one by one, or if I place them in all at once, they are never in the correct order!!!!! Track 09 somehow wants to be track number 1. This is one of many albums that's giving me this kind of trouble. I hate it. I don't know how to fix it. It's midnight right now and all the Apple tech stores are closed, plus Apple's telephone support desk sucks and I'd rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service http://theoatmeal.com/comics/customer_service Anybody know a way around this? Why is it doing this to me?
how'd you obtain these mp3's? make sure the album, the album artist, the artist, and the total number of tracks are all the same within the album. as for the random deletion a while ago, that's ur comp, not itunes necessarily.
For some reason I am having the same problem with the exact same album... I've noticed it with The Drums, Felix Da Housecat -He Was King, Passion Pit, & the new Ghostland Observatory album. =/ I've tried to change the number of them and while some of the go back to where they are supposed to, #9 won't move from the top spot.
I've verified that the numbered songs of that Drums album are numbered correctly as I posted them. That's how the artists arranged their songs in that album. I bet there's a way around it. I suppose I could investigate for a better quality download of the same album. And another problem I have with iTunes is for some reason when I order my library by artists it does it backwards, reverse alphabetical order AND reverse song order!!!
quality doesnt have to do with it. has to do with the tagged info with it. there should be a highlighted organization pattern indicated on the top of your library, whether it be by albums, artists, genres, etc. if you have it by artists, an 'artist' bar will be highlighted with an arrow/triangle inside. is the arrow/triangle pointing up or down? if the arrow is pointing down its in reverse order. if its pointing up, it's in alphabetical. click that 'artist' bar to change it in between the two that would at least begin to organize things. do you have the newest itunes? it has a newer layout called hybrid (as opposed to list, album, or coverflow) and it makes it easier to see what you organized things as. it'll organize artists alphabetically then album under the artists alphabetically showing the album art. you'd then see what sticks out.
Well, iTunes keeps updating itself by increasing its number by .01 every week or so. I just hit YES when it asks for an update. Thanks for your knowledge Kyle, it helped me figure it out a little bit better. Interestingly enough I transferred that album to a different computer, a newer one (which most likely has a newer version of iTunes), and it seems to be working by listing the songs in the correct order in the library. Yay
