Need help import songs to iTunes in specific order

[ohenriquez]

Dear Forum members

I have struggled to import songs into specific order
I had carefully named songs starting with 0001 to 1000 ( I wrote numbers before name of the songs)
I created a list of songs from 1 to 1000 (my favourites songs in that order) as I wanted to listen to them with my iPhone 6S Plus
When I imported them, unfortunately iTunes sorted the songs in a random fashion (in the recently added section)
It seems that iTunes deleted the numbers I created

I wonder whether any of you know how to do this. I have looked everywhere but still unable to find answer

I have El Capitan and last version of iTunes
iMac retina 27 inches

Thanks for your help

Omar

 

[Partron22]

You could probably use iTunes add command in an Applescript loop to step through the files one at a time, adding them in the order you want.

 

[Shirasaki]

As I am aware, playlist might be the most efficient way to add large amount of songs in a certain order. Don't mess up with numbers. iTunes will follow track numbers, not your customised numbers to sort.
Try to create a playlist, and add your 1000 songs there.

 

[NoBoMac]

Not near a computer right now, but, a possible easy solution is to create a playlist, add all the songs to that, sort the playlist on the name field.

Otherwise, yes, can see it being "random", since iTunes uses track meta-data to organize by album, artist, etc.

Also: seem to recall when tracks on disk are named like "01 - name of song", yes, that prefix gets stripped off the name of the track in iTunes: strips off the track number on the disc/LP and adds it to the iTunes meta-data for the "album's" song.

 

[ohenriquez]

Thanks for your responses, I will try to add them manually but it will take a while to add songs manually from 1 to 1000.