No, not some random order. Files organize alphabetically. The trick to making ITunes play songs in the order you want is to use a file numbering script. You need to build a custom playlist which has the songs in the order you want. Then, use the tag track numbering script to solve your problem.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Feb 8, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way for example, if you have a folder that I'm sure some of us > have with just assorted songs in alphabetical order, and you want Itunes to > actually play them in the order they were in that folder to begin with, how > can you tell it to do that? > I've never been able to tell it to do that, which can be frustrating, and > even more so when I sync them to my phone and want to play them all at once, > but shuffled or not, they're still scrambled up, because it puts them in some > random order. > On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > >> Give ITunes a fair chance. Took me a while too. Once you get used to it, >> you'll find it's not that hard. Actually, it's a lot more convinenct to let >> ITunes do all the track tagging and such for you. Say you want to organize >> a bunch of files in to a custom album. Just add the files to your ITunes >> library, they will or may go in as "unknown" depending on whether or not >> they have meta data tags already. Anyhow, select all the files you added >> and then, press cmd+i and there you can assign an album and artist name to >> the files. Now, there is a script which can be used to sequentially number >> the files. >> >> >> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >> >> On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Jared <jared.stoff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm a new Mac user who uses Foobar 2000 on Windows to play music. Is there >>> a program other then iTunes for the Mac like foobar 2000 that will allow me >>> to sort all my music by artist/genre, play only music from a specific genre >>> etc? I'm looking for something specifically designed for Music instead of >>> iTunes which handles the kitchen sink. I was looking at VLC but it looks >>> like it can only sort a playlist, not only play tracks from a specific >>> artist/genre. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
