Sorting music on the iPhone? Annoying

[kappaknight]

In my iTunes, I sort my "Favorites" list by the 1-5 star rating that I give the songs. When synced to the iPhone, iPhone orders them alphabetically by the artist. This seems to be a new thing cause the old version was able to sort in the same order as iTunes.

Is this a bug? Is there a way around this?

 

[Wekesalocs]

Fix Sorting for Smart Playlists

I got this answer from http://cnx.com/?p=1612

It works perfectly for me



This is actually an old bug that keeps coming up every year or so at random, whenever Apple makes major changes. I don’t know why they don’t test this immediately before a release, and make a permanent note of what fixed it last time. Essentially, if you have a smart playlist that you reorganize in iTunes, your device won’t get your updated play order; it will re-sort the playlist the way it thinks it should be.

Credit for this one goes to TechGeekBlogger at the Apple discussion boards. I just include it here because odds are if you’re pissed off about the first bug you’re annoyed by the second as well.

There’s an interesting workaround that TechGeekBlogger discovered: a smart playlist on an iOS device will sort things the way it wants but a smart list composed of other smart playlists will work fine. I noticed this when I checked to see that my “smart shuffle” playlist (which accesses playlists for different star ratings with rules for each one) would let me re-sort it but my podcast playlist wouldn’t.

Essentially here’s a workaround Create a new smart playlist with the following rules (and only the following rules):

• Playlist is (your old playlist)
• Limit to (however many) items (ordered as you like)

Then sync the new playlist to your iOS device. This new one should be able to be re-sorted in iTunes and have its new order updated on the device as well.


Hope this prevents some of you from pulling your hair out like I’ve been doing.