Author Topic: is there a way to force the order of tracks on a playlist?  (Read 2797 times)

ropeadope

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Hiya. Been a long time MusicBee user now, I still don't know most of what it does!

Some tracks are out of order on my playlist and I don't know how to get them in order. The playlist is sorted by artist name, which is how I like it, but some tracks are slightly out of order. I tried changing the track number in the info, but they still don't line up. Is there anyway I can manually reorder the playlist while generally keeping it alphabetical? Thanks!

Zak

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If you have your playlist sorted by artist, as in the little arrow appears next to the Artist column heading, you won't be able to manually reorder them - alphabetical is alphabetical.

The only way to manually reorder a playlist is to sort by the "#" column.
As you do mostly want it sorted by artist name though:

1. Click the artist heading to sort by artist
2. Right-click on your playlist and select List > Update Play Order
    This will update the position of each track in the playlist to match what is currently shown.
3. Click the "#" column heading to sort by that column

Now you will have a playlist sorted by artist, but in which you can also drag tracks up and down to manually reorder them.
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