Hi Geoff, Ricardo, Denise, and Others, I've never had trouble playing tracks that were ripped with iTunes or purchased from the iTunes Store in album order. You don't need to check track number in the View Options menu in order to sort tracks by number, although it doesn't hurt. Just move to the "Album" column and apply your sort.
If you want to create a playlist for an album that is in your iTunes music library, with your Music library selected in the sources table, toggle on the browser (Command-b) as Ricardo and Barry suggested. Navigate (VO-Right Arrow or flick right with TrackPad Commander gestures) to the browser and interact, then navigate to the "Albums" column and find your Album by typing the first few letters of the name, or using your arrow keys or by running your finger down to the entry if you're using trackpad gestures. With the album selected, you can use the Command-Shift-N shortcut to create a new playlist from your selection, and type in the name. Your source list selection will change to that playlist. Navigate to the songs table (e.g., VO-Command-T, or with with VO-Right arrow or right flicks) and interact. Navigate to the "Album" column and sort with VO-Shift-Backslash. When you sort on any column in a library or playlist, iTunes remembers that ordering. So in this instance I've had you do the sort from within the created playlist. The order of tracks in your music library will be unaffected by this. Very occasionally, when you sync a playlist that you have reordered to your iPhone or iPod, the new sort order will not be used if there was a previous sync with the playlist contents listed in a different order. You can ensure that the current order is used by navigating to the playlist in the sources table, bringing up the context menu (VO-m), and choosing "Copy To Play Order". Remember that turning on/off the column browser (Command-b) and sorting (VO-Shift-Backslash on an English language input keyboard) are toggle actions. In the case of a sort, applying the shortcut a second time will reverse the current sort order. I'll further note that if you have ripped multi-volume audiobooks from CD, provided that the Album titles are consistent, sorting on the album column will order the entire book correctly by tracks within a disc, and by discs within the book. Note that if you want this to work, you should probably check the Album title and Artist that are being used and override them yourself, since the CD database that iTunes uses will likely name the album "Book Title [Disc 1]", "Book Title [Disc 2]", etc. instead of just "Book Title". If you want to check for how iTunes "knows" the track number of a CD it has ripped, select one of the tracks in your album and use the Command-Shift-R shortcut to reveal the location of that track in Finder. You'll find that in the Finder window the name of the track appears as "01 Song name 1", "02 Song name 2", etc. If you check a multi-volume audio book, the names will look like "1-01 Track name 1", "1-02 Track name 2", and so forth, until you reach the items for the second disc, which will be named "2-01 Track name 1", "2-02 Track name 2", and so forth. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 30, 2011, at 13:23, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > In iTunes press command j to bring up the view options window to choose what > columns you wish to add or subtract from the music table. In here, check the > track number checkbox. Now after you've found the album, interact with the > music table and VO over to your track number column and press VO shift > backslash to have the music table sorted by that column. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > > > On May 30, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > >> I suspect Denise was already aware of this prior to posting. The problem is >> that I have yet to determine how to play an album in it's intended order. >> This could really matter for instance in the case of a comedy that was >> broken into tracks. When listing album contents as you and Ricardo suggest, >> the tracks appear to be in alphebetical order, which may not actually >> reflect their placement <smile>. >> >> Best regards. >> Geoff >> >> On May 30, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> First command-b to show the column browser. Then view/column browser and >>> choose albums. >>> >>> Now, in the playlist you can interact with the playlist browser and brows >>> your tracks by album title. >>> >>> On May 30, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Denise Avant wrote: >>> >>>> hello all, >>>> i recently ripped five complete cds with itunes. i see the individual >>>> songs in my music list. but how are they suppose to come out as albums >>>> which is what i wanted. i do not want to have to build a playlist for one >>>> of michael jackson's albums. >>>> thanks. >>>> -- 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.
