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I've just labeled tracks and exported multiples to my MAC hard drive to eventually bring into itunes and even burn a CD. It placed them all in random order. Is there any way I can keep the original order based on my original file? I'm hoping I don't have to go back to the original and organize them myself... any help would be appreciated!

nero did that to me.
cd burning software coders are something else.

i now number every track starting with 11, 12, ..., nn
then i can click on the tracks and they get sorted in the sequence tht i want them. might work for your problem too.

<<<It placed them all in random order.>>>

I bet it doesn't. I bet it placed them in computer filename order. 0 thru 9, then a thru z, etc. In that case, you can tune the filename at the export step to come out in the right order.

iTunes is schizophrenic. In the general music pile, everything goes by filename, or artist, or whichever column you select. You can do it by date if you want. However, the playlists can be organized by dragging and dropping and they stay put.

That's the order that the play list will burn your show to a CD, however, Music CDs do not carry music titles. If you put your CD into a stand-alone Music CD player (like in your car), the music will appear as track 01, tack 02, track 03, etc. If you play the CD in the computer, the computer will go on line and try to figure out what the titles should be. If you copied an entire vinyl record to a CD, GraceNote® (in the Mac) will probably figure it all out. If these are a collection of songs you sung and played on the guitar, then you're dead -- or worse, GraceNote will get it wrong.

I have one personal performance on a Music CD that my Mac thinks is Bonnie Raitt.

Really. I haven't been Bonnie Raitt in years.

Koz

Thanks both of you for your replies... turns out I had to re-organize the tracks once I got it into iTunes. Once I made it a playlist and burned it to a CD, it remained the way i set it up in iTunes. Seems like there had to be a better way than that, but I guess not! I'm just really psyched I could transfer my cassettes to CD on my own. Companies are charging $15 per cassette out there to do the same thing!

Whomper - Thanks for the labelling trick... I'll try it out! Maybe just numbering will be better than me labeling with text and having to remember which order they go in.

KOZ - I labeled my own tracks in audacity before exporting multiple tracks... iTunes maintained my labels! From using iTunes, I did already know about GraceNote (which is right a good percentage of the time). Crazy to think your tracks were Bonnie Raitt! Too funny!

amyp wrote:...the labelling trick... I'll try it out! Maybe just numbering will be better than me labeling with text and having to remember which order they go in.

1.3.12 (just released) has an auto-numbering option on export whereby the numbers 01, 02, 03 etc can be added to the front or rear of your label text.

WC

waxcylinder wrote:

amyp wrote:...the labelling trick... I'll try it out! Maybe just numbering will be better than me labeling with text and having to remember which order they go in.

1.3.12 (just released) has an auto-numbering option on export whereby the numbers 01, 02, 03 etc can be added to the front or rear of your label text.

WC

Is it compatible with MAC OS 10.4.11?

-amyp

amyp wrote:
Whomper - Thanks for the labelling trick... I'll try it out! Maybe just numbering will be better than me labeling with text and having to remember which order they go in.
!

only thing that worked for me
too hard to remember the tracks
and then nero scrambled them again when i dragged and dropped them
with the numbers i can click the column top in nero and they resort the way i want them to play

<<<Is it compatible with MAC OS 10.4.11?>>>

The installers so far cut you off at Panther OS-X 10.3.9.

Koz

waxcylinder wrote:...
1.3.12 (just released) has an auto-numbering option on export whereby the numbers 01, 02, 03 etc can be added to the front or rear of your label text.

WC

one problem with 01 02 etc
my copy nero drops the leading 0 so 01 becomes (blank)1
and will put the tracks in the wrong order
really need to start with 11 12 ... 99 in audacity
then i can click the column head in nero and get the right play sequence back again

if only nero were not so bassackwards and reverse the order of the files that i drag and drop into it i wouldnt care about numbers .