How To Change The Order Of Songs In An Album On Itunes

Play songs in iTunes on PC

Listen to your music the way you similar—use the controls in the iTunes window to repeat songs, change the gild they play in, and more.

To view your music library, choose Music from the pop-up menu at the pinnacle left, then click Library. Yous can also listen to music from a CD. See Import songs from CDs into iTunes.

Shuffle or repeat songs

In a playlist or album, you lot tin can shuffle songs (play them in random order) and repeat private songs.

The banner with a song playing. The Shuffle button is in the upper-left corner; the Repeat button is in the upper-right corner. Drag the scrubber to go to a different part of the song.

In the iTunes app on your PC, choose Music from the pop-upward carte du jour at the tiptop left, then click Library.
Play a song, album, or playlist in your iTunes library by double-clicking information technology, or selecting it and clicking the Play button .

Annotation: A song needs to be playing before you can apply shuffle or repeat.
Do any of the following:
- Plough shuffle on or off: Click the Shuffle push button in the playback controls.
  
  When Shuffle is on, a box appears behind the push and music or video plays in random order.
- Shuffle albums or groupings: Choose Controls > Shuffle > Albums (or Groupings). iTunes plays the songs in the lodge in which they appear on the anthology or in the grouping, and then chooses another album or grouping at random.
- Shuffle the songs in an album: Click Shuffle below the album fine art.
- Echo all songs in the current view (for example, a playlist): Click the Repeat button . Echo is on when a box appears backside the button .
- Echo the currently playing song: Click the Echo button until the number 1 appears .
- Turn repeat off: Click the Echo button until the box backside the button no longer appears.

Run across the Apple Back up articles How to shuffle music on your Mac or PC and How to repeat music on your Mac or PC.

Change what'south playing with the Up Next list

Yous can utilise the Up Next list to view and modify which songs play side by side. For example, if you're listening to a playlist, you tin choose an album to switch to after the song currently playing finishes. When the album finishes, iTunes resumes playing the playlist.

The Up Next button in the banner showing the Up Next list. You can view the History button to see the Previously Played list. The Clear link, at the bottom of the Up Next list, is used to remove all songs from the list.

In the iTunes app on your PC, choose Music from the pop-up menu at the top left, then click Library.
Play a song, anthology, or playlist in your iTunes library past double-clicking it, or selecting it and clicking the Play button .

Annotation: A song needs to be playing before you tin can use Up Next.
Click the Upward Next push , click Upward Side by side, then do any of the following:.
- Play a song in the list: Double-click the vocal.
- Add together or movement a song to the top of the list: Right-click the item, so choose Play Next.
- Modify the club of songs in the list: Drag the songs into the social club you lot want.
- Remove a song from the list: Select the song, then press the Delete key.
- Remove all songs from the list: Click the Articulate link at the lesser of the list one or more times.
Click the Upwards Next button again to close the listing.

Tip: To add a vocal or an album to the Up Next list, drag the item from the list of songs to the tiptop middle of the iTunes window until a highlighted border appears.

An album being dragged to the top of the iTunes window.

You tin click History in the Up Side by side listing to see which songs played previously.

If you lot quit iTunes, the Up Adjacent list is automatically saved for the side by side fourth dimension y'all open iTunes.

Play songs in a specific order

In the iTunes app on your PC, choose Music from the pop-upwardly menu at the superlative left, so click Library.
Click Songs in the sidebar on the left.
Click a column heading to play songs in alphabetical guild past song title, creative person, or album (or sort by whatever other category).

To select more categories, choose View > Evidence View Options.
Double-click the song y'all desire to play first. The balance of the songs follow depending on the gild you selected.

A playlist is some other way to play songs in a specific order. See Intro to playlists.

Fade between songs

You lot can set iTunes to fade in each vocal (gradually increase its book) while the previous song is fading out. This feature, chosen crossfading, prevents gaps of silence between songs.

In the iTunes app on your PC, cull Edit > Preferences, then click Playback.
Select Crossfade Songs.
To change the amount of time it takes for the current vocal to fade out at the stop and the new song to fade in, drag the Seconds slider.

When iTunes plays consecutive tracks from the same album, crossfading is automatically turned off, with no fading between the songs (or tracks).

To play songs without fading, deselect Crossfade Songs. See Change Playback preferences.

Preclude a vocal from playing

You tin can ready iTunes to ignore sure songs in your library and never play them.

In the iTunes app on your PC, choose Music from the popular-upward menu at the meridian left, then click Library.
Click Songs in the sidebar on the left.
Deselect the checkbox next to the song.

If y'all don't see checkboxes next to the songs, choose Edit > Preferences, click Full general, then brand sure "List view checkboxes" is selected. Run across Change Full general preferences.