Anyone know why my iPod has suddenly started playing things in the wrong order within albums?

[CountessDracula]

and how to put it right?

I have it sorted by album by artist so it should be fine right?

and while i'm at it i seem to have duplicates in my itunes is there a quick way to get rid of them?

a) thanks will try
b) I have loads - is there any way of deleting them all in one go as you can 't sort yb dups

a) hasn't worked
have done that and re-synched and it still plays in wrong order

highlight whilst holding ctrl all the ones u want deleted.

might work.

I don't know of a shortcut for the duplicates in itunes. I find it easier to find them using show browser on the view menu but it's still a tediously fiddly process. misdee's suggestion for deleting several at a time does work I think but if you have more duplicates than you can see it won't help.

To play in order, go into the settings menu on your ipod, I think, and you can turn "shuffle" off. I usually use this option the other way round, as I use playlists which are often too long to listen to in one morning, eg between getting up and leaving the house to take DS to CM and myself to work. So I prefer it to play playlists in a random order. At some point I think I should go back to listening to some of my newer CDs and some old favourites as they were recorded, but with a 14 month old and early pregnancy exhaustion/nausea combined don't know when that will happen.

Check that your ipod is not set to 'shuffle'. Go into 'settings' in the first menu, scroll down to 'shuffle' and choose 'no' (not 'songs' or 'albums').

oh - just read all the posts properly - I see elkie
dee got there first!