Hi Jane,
Not sure what is going on for you, but probably the tracks are being
ordered in alphabetical order by song name. You can add a prefix
number to the name, such as 01, 02, etc. before the track name.
If you have these numbered, but the songs are still being shuffled,
you could try creating an AppleScript like Doug Adams' "De-Shuffle
All Playlists" script which turns "shuffle" off for every playlist. Here's
his code from his "Missing Menu Commands" page:
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with i from 1 to (index of last playlist)
try
set shuffle of playlist i to false
end try
end repeat
end tell
Try inserting and compiling those lines into an AppleScript and
save it under your <username>/Library/iTunes/Scripts/
directory with a name like De-ShuffleAllPlaylists and see whether
running that helps.
I haven't run into this myself, so this is just a guess.
Esther
On Friday, June 30, 2006, at 06:06PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
>I keep trying to put together a playlist of music I like, but iTunes
>keeps screwing up the order of the songs. How do I make it quit
>trying to do this "smart shuffle" thing? It's really annoying.
>
>Jane
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