Hi, I'm wondering if iTunes is treating your titles as text and thus sorting differently than if they were numbers. For example, when sorting textually, the following would occur:
Track 1, through Track 20 would sort as Track 1, Track 10, Track 11, Track 12, Track 13 on through to Track 19 then Track 2, Track 20, Track 3, Track 4 until Track 9. This happens consistently when sorting textual data because of the placement of the digits. You can usually get around this by using 2 digit Track numbers if the highest track does not exceed 99. Therefore, Track 1 becomes Track 01 (zero-one not o-one as it may read) and all other track numbers up to nine also must be preceded by the zero. The way that iTunes itself gets around this is that the numbers precede the Song title in the filename but is not displayed in the iTunes Songs Table. So, the folder is named "My Book" with items inside that folder named as 01-Chapter 1, 02-Chapter 2 and so on. Using this method, music albums can be played in the order that they are on the album and the titles thus do not appear alphabetically in the Songs Table. Long explanation but I'm guessing that this is what's going on for you. If this is not the case, give me a specific example and I'll attempt to replicate the issue. HTH. Later.... On 2011-03-30, at 7:23 PM, Phantom.Vader wrote: > Hi people! > > I've been importing my audio-books into Itunes, but it sometimes seems > like its getting the files out of order. Like, it'll list them track > 11, track 10, track 20, track 22, like that. Does anyone know why it > does that and how I can get it to list and play them in the right > order? Could it have to do with the fact that, after importing them, > I'm multi-selecting them in the "music" table and then re-labelling > the lot as audio-book-files using the investigator? Should I be doing > them one file at a time instead? > > Anyway, any help would be hugely appreciated, as I'd really like to be > able to listen to my favourite books in my Itunes! > > > -- > "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death > your right to say it." (either Thomas Pain or Voltaire) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
