iTunes does have some strange attributes. As does sorting by Apple.
Is there a difference to the 'Sort Order' when done form the Music [full list] folder compared to doing it through a Playlist?
My guess is that this comparison can be checked using the Playlist sort by Number and then selecting from the Music folder sorted by Artist - Cliff Richard.
But I'm guessing too.

I see that you use OpenOffice, Erik. Try sorting there in its Spreadsheet mode and copy to Nisus Writer Pro.

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On 08/06/2010, at 3:28 AM, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:

> Hello every ni's'e guy.:-)
> 
> Well, I've begun to make what I should have done little by little... I have started to katalog all of my CDs and LPs artist by artist - just making one list from every artist with titles of the albums and track titles... The LPs of course I have to type in fully manually, but the CDs are quite a lot easier. Here it's just to put in the disc and open it in iTunes or similar application and then copy all titles into the list.
> 
> And it's here the problem occors... Sometimes when I just paste the copied list into NWP, the sorting order is totally out of order so to speak, sometimes it's as it should be. - An example from one of my favorit artists - Cliff Richard - "Cliff Sings" from 1958...
> 
> 01 Apron Strings
> 02 My Babe
> 03 Down The Line
> 04 I Got A Feeling
> 05 Jet Black
> 06 Baby I Don't Care
> 07 Donna
> 08 Move It
> 09 Ready Teddy
> 10 Too Much
> 11 Don't Bug Me Baby
> 12 Driftin'
> 13 That'll Be The Day
> 14 Be-Bop-A-Lula
> 15 Danny
> 16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
> 
> Sometimes such a pasted list shows up as this
> 
> 02 My Babe
> 03 Down The Line
> 04 I Got A Feeling
> 05 Jet Black
> 06 Baby I Don't Care
> 07 Donna
> 08 Move It
> 09 Ready Teddy
> 10 Too Much
> 11 Don't Bug Me Baby
> 12 Driftin'
> 13 That'll Be The Day
> 14 Be-Bop-A-Lula
> 15 Danny
> 16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
> 01 Apron Strings
> 
> I.e. the '01' will occor at the buttom of the list...
> 
> Is this a 'bug' in NWP or in iTunes? - I've noticed many times that copying information from iTunes lists most of the time will copy in random order or directly in reverse order with highest number first and lowest number last...
> 
> OK, it's easy to sorten out by selecting the paragraph and then use a command key - COM+AS for ascending and COM+DS for descending sort order... But I wonder if others have noticed something similar?
> 
> Cheers, Erik Richard
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