Non-sequential ordering in iTunes

crandles
 October 11, 2012 at 02:36 AM posted in General Discussion

Not really a site problem, but not sure where else I could post this. 

I recently moved my iTunes library from one hard drive to another.  Somehow the podcasts dived themselves into groups. So, all the full podcasts are together and all the dialog only are together and the PDFs are all hanging tight.  

This means that when I load programs onto my iPod I do not automatically get Full Podcast followed by the dialog. Instead I most often get ten or twenty dialogs in a row without the original podcast form which they were pulled.

Does anyone know how I can restore order here?

Thanks.

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crandles
 October 11, 2012 at 06:43 AM

That's true. But I'm rather used the way they were arranged on iTunes.

I would listen to full lesson for the introduction of new vocabulary and sentence patterns and then I could listen to the dialog and repeat it over and over again as I listened and/or shadowed it.  

Now, if I want to do that, I have to manually add the lesson then scroll through the folder until I find the dialog and add them both. It was easier the other way.

You're right, Mr. Trendy. In the larger picture it doesn't matter, but I'd like to put it back the old way nonetheless. If you or anyone else has suggestions on how I could do that, I'm be very grateful.

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crandles
 October 12, 2012 at 07:28 AM

Thanks

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Right-Wingnut
 October 11, 2012 at 07:11 AM

I do everything manually, as I dislike the way iTunes does things automatically. That includes adding the podcasts in the first place. I found I had little control over automatically downloaded podcasts.

I would select 2 groupings of podcasts (select one, ctrl-select the other), right-click/'Get Info', and check the box next to 'Grouping' to make sure it is blank. Then make sure they have the same album name. But I doubt there is anything you can do to direct newly downloaded podcasts into this album.

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Right-Wingnut
 October 11, 2012 at 03:44 AM

But you already get the Dialog at the start and end of each full podcast (in the podcast file). The separate Dialog files are meant to be listened to independently of the full lessons as review.