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iTunes Playlist Order
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Where you see the headers 'Name', 'Time', 'Artist', 'Album', etc, click on whichever one of those you would like it to be sorted by. In that screenshot, Name is highlighted and you can see it is organising it in Alphabetical name order. Click it again to change from ascending order to descending order, and vice versa. Go to View>View Options to choose other headers you might want to organise it by.
Where you see the headers 'Name', 'Time', 'Artist', 'Album', etc, click on whichever one of those you would like it to be sorted by. In that screenshot, Name is highlighted and you can see it is organising it in Alphabetical name order. Click it again to change from ascending order to descending order, and vice versa. Go to View>View Options to choose other headers you might want to organise it by.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is how you change the order of Songs within a playlist. I'm talking about the order that the Playlist themselves are displayed.
You can arrange playlists in folders and you can rename playlists so they sort in the desired order. There is no sort function on the sidebar where the playlists are displayed.
I read that. I also understand that using folders and renaming playlists are the only two options available to the OP, whether they want to use them or not.
Maybe a compromise is in order. I have certain playlists that I like to show up at the beginning of certain folders. Instead of changing the name, I add numbers to the beginning of the name. Here's an example:
1 Pop-Rock Mix
2 Pop-Rock-Country Mix
3 Jazz-New Age Mix
4 Classical Mix
Country
Classical
Folk
Irish
Jazz
Pop
Rock
1 Pop-Rock Mix
2 Pop-Rock-Country Mix
3 Jazz-New Age Mix
4 Classical Mix
Country
Classical
Folk
Irish
Jazz
Pop
Rock
mchalebk probably knows that. He was probably just pointing out to the OP another way of renaming without using the alphabet, as numbers might seem easier to use.
ks-man probably knows how to rename using numbers, letters and special characters. Renaming is still renaming. The point is, there are still only two options: use folders or rename the playlists (regardless of how you rename them.)
Note that I started my previous post with "Maybe a compromise is in order".
I would bet that a lot of people never think to use numbers in a naming scheme (have no idea about the OP). Adding numbers to the beginning allows you to retain (basically) the same name, but also to place certain high priority playlists at the top and in the order you want.
I'll bet that someone (maybe not the OP, but someone) reads my post and says "hey, I never thought about that".
Yes, it is changing the name. But it's only "kind of" changing the name.
While it is a good suggestion, the issue is that I need to do it in iTunes with the numbers and then the playlists would look weird on different iPods. For example, the playlists on one iPod would be:
2.
5.
7.
9.
assuming that iPod didn't include playlists 1,3,4,6 and 8. Oh well, hopefully Apple will change it in the future (I'm not holding my breath).
I would reply, but I think we're just going in circles now
Well played sir, 'twas fun