unuseability

Strange iTunes Behavior

I feel a bit weird about this: I rip audio drama CDs where the tracks are not numbered sequentially, but are just titles. After ripping, I put the titles into a fixed playlist so that they are in the correct order there. When I look at the order, it's all mixed up. So far, I can't recognize any meaningful pattern that could be the basis for this. Of course, this is extremely annoying, especially with audio dramas - since many audio dramas do not have the explicit order in their booklet, I sometimes have to sort them together laboriously myself.

With the Otherland CDs, it was nice: those who did the CDDB data entry had numbered all the small pieces sequentially. Now with "Wachen! Wachen!" I have to sort all 5 CDs again - fortunately, the titles on the pieces are identical to those in the booklet, so I can do this manually.

But it's really quite stupid that I have to do this - because why do I have a computer? Why can't iTunes just leave the order of the tracks as they come in?