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skamen · 2009-01-27 8:45 am

I often get albums in iTunes where the track order is not correct. Is there some way (or an applescript add-on) that I can change track number information without individually going to the information pane for each song and changing the track number? I would love to be able to select a number from a contextual menu or some quick way of changing the track numbers for each song. Does anybody know if there is anyway to do something like this?

Thanks,

-Scott

CG5Addict · 2009-01-27 12:12 pm

If you click on the Album tab on the top where iTunes has Name then Time, then Artist, then Album. (If album is not there just go to view---> view options and click the Album button so it shows a check mark in the Album box.) This adds a Album Column. When you click Album a direction pointer comes up. If it's pointing down just click it again to change the pointer direction. Your album will come up in the their correct order.

skamen · 2009-01-27 12:25 pm

Thanks for the quick response. However, my problem is that the tracks in the album either do not have a track number or they have the wrong track number and are there for not coming up in the right order. I'm looking for a quick way to change the track number information for each track without having to go to the information window for each track and type the number in. Any ideas?

mrreet2001 · 2009-01-27 12:42 pm

confused where do you want the script to get the track numbers from?

skamen · 2009-01-27 12:49 pm

I'm sorry I haven't been very clear. Obviously I would have to put the track numbers in myself, I'm just wondering if someone has devised some sort of a drop down menu that I could control click or something of that nature rather than having to open up the information window for each track.

CG5Addict · 2009-01-27 12:54 pm

skamen wrote:
However, my problem is that the tracks in the album either do not have a track number or they have the wrong track number and are there for not coming up in the right order.

The only way I have seen this is when music taken from a burned copy or downloaded (ex. limewire) of albums.
Original CD's I import to iTunes for me always come with track numbers in there right order from the CD.

pottymouth · 2009-01-27 3:35 pm

Typically I'll just sort by filename or whatever method puts them in order and then just select the first one, put my cursor in the track # box and type as fast as I can 1, cmd+n, 2, cmd+n, 3, cmd+n, 4, cmd+n, 5, cmd+n, 6....

I've also used this successfully but you have to find the EXACT album you're trying to touch up.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/s … bsafarikit

brainiac_7 · 2009-02-01 2:24 pm

CG5Addict posts for me. I have my Music Library set to Date Added (top) by default to track new additions, but when I've newly downloaded an album from iTMS or Amazon, or ripped a CD (and set iTunes prefs to number new files), I change the Library's sort order from Date Added to Album (top) to get the cuts in the correct album order.

Since I like to have a Playlist for each album I own, I then Shift Select all the album cuts (now in the correct order) and drag the files to the leftmost Library column, wait for the cursor to change to a green + sign and then release, to have iTunes create and name the new album's Playlist for me.

This is great, however after a while I started to want my leftmost column Playlists to read Last Name, First Name (for artists other than bandnames) and I have a great iTunes AppleScript that will batch change Playlist names, if anyone is interested I will post it.

The batch script will, in one click, change all the Playlist names that match all at once, for ex.,:

Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2
Bud Powell - The Scene Changes

will, in one click, become:

Powell, Bud - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
Powell, Bud - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2
Powell, Bud - The Scene Changes

so I have have a correctly alphabetized album collection, which makes finding albums in iTunes much easier!

ccavolina · 2009-07-19 4:50 pm

Scott,

This is a huge pet peeve of mine too when dealing with iTunes. Please let me know if you ever come across of an easier way to input track #'s. I put a playlist together containing different artists and I would like to put track numbers in for the exact order that the playlist is currently in right now so that I can refer back to this exact playlist [in same order] again. I know I can manually input the track number for each song one at a time, but that is extremely tedious and I am too trying to find an easier means of doing so. If you stumble across anything, please let me know.

Thank You,

Cameron

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#1 2009-01-27 8:45 am

Quick Way to To Change Track Number in iTunes?

#2 2009-01-27 12:12 pm

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skamen wrote:

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