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I know you can create a Smart playlist of your album tracks that will automatically place the tracks in the correct order, but I like to use the various AppleScripts found at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes to automatically rip my audiobook CDs to a single track, then create a playlist of those tracks and name the playlist with the name of the CD. One problem I had run into was I sometimes did not have the CDs in the correct order, therefore the track order would not be correct in the resulting playlist.

I thought to solve this problem by including a script to reorder the tracks by the track number; however, I could not find such a script. I am not an AppleScripter, so after examining other scripts and searching the internet, I finally put together one that works. As I said, I'm not a scripter, so someone could problem make this simpler, but it works as is.
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Create an iTunes playlist sorted by track number
Authored by: rexroof on Jan 18, '05 12:26:02PM

I don't understand. when I sort a playlist by album, it automatically secondary sorts by track number, if I have the track numbers set.

also, if I want to sort by track number, I just turn the track numbers column on and sort by that.

how is this different?



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Create an iTunes playlist sorted by track number
Authored by: kirkmc on Jan 18, '05 01:38:12PM

There's a script called Albumize Selection on Doug's site - see the link above. It does exactly what you want.

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Thanks, Man Of Kirkville
Authored by: DougAdams on Jan 18, '05 02:30:26PM
Albumize re-numbers the "Track Number _ of _" tags in every track in the selected playlist to their current Play Order and, optionally, enters a new Album Name for every track.

Albumize Selection re-numbers the "Track Number _ of _" info entries in each selected track to its current order and, optionally, enters a new Album Name for every track.

You know what? I'm not sure if these scripts enter the track count. I'd etter have a look. Of course, you can always multi-edit this in and save me the trouble :)

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Thanks, Man Of Kirkville
Authored by: DougAdams on Jan 18, '05 02:31:48PM

They DO enter the track count.



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