Organizing with "Album by Year"

I've found the sorting method of "Album by Year" very useful in organizing my albums chronologically. However:
The Times They Are A-Changin' and Another side of Bob Dylan were both released in 1964. Although "Another side" was released second, it is listed above "Times" in alphabetical order.
Any tricks to move that album down a notch and keep my chronology going?

Not that I have found I am afraid.
The next level of sorting is album title, so the only way I can see is to put a character in front of the Album title to influence the sort order.
Putting a space character in front of "Times they are a changing" might force it to the top and is not too intrusive. Worth a go anyway. I am sure you know that you can use Get Info on multiple tracks so you can do the whole album in one go.

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Organizing albums per year in my iPod

Friends,
I find that organizing albums per year is much more convenient than by alphabetical order.
And makes much more sense, to me.
Now this is no problem when you're in iTUnes, as you can visualize all your music both ways, per year, alphabetically (and many more, actually.
But when I'm listening through my iPod???
my iPod organizes albums alphabetically by default.
In order to have an artist's albums organizes by year, I see no way but adding the year in front of the title.
1961 - Bob Dylan
1962 - Freewheelin
1963 - The Times They Are a-Changin'
and so on.
Which works ok, but it's definitely ugly.
Let alone the fact that I cannot browse them alphabetically anymore and I find myself having an infinite lists of dates instead of a list of titles.
Is there a way to tell my iPod to organize my albums by year even if the *physical number* is not printed in the title?
(the way you do when you're in iTunes)
Hope I've been clear
Thanks a lot for any answer.
Beppe

I've been wanting to do that too.
I haven't tried this yet, but give it a whirl. Before the title of each album by an artist, put a letter in front. For instance, if you have ten albums under Dylan, put the letter "A" in front of the title of the earliest album, "B" in front of his second and so on.
Searching by album would not work, but I never do that anyway. I usually go to the artist first, then look for the album.

Organizing albums by year on ios device

Is there a way to organize itunes match albums by year on an iOS device similar to what we have on iTunes?
I hate having the albums all over the place (OCD)

Michael Allbritton wrote:
If you've downloaded the tracks to your iOS device you'll need to delete the tracks for the ID3 changes to take affect.
I haven't downloaded any music onto my iPhone as far as I'm concern, I don know they propably get downloaded as you play them, I will have to check on that.
Michael Allbritton wrote:
As to displaying albums in "boxsets," I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean you want the Albums to be displayed in the same way in the Music app as they are in the iTunes Store? I don't think that is possible, honestly.
What I do (and this might be useful to you) is put the title of the boxset in the Album field. For example: Abbey Road (The Beatles in Stereo), or The Doors L.A. Woman (The Complete Studio Albums).
Or you can use the Sort Album field. I haven't this, but what you could do is put the title of the boxset in the Sort Album field and see if that does what you want it do. In short, play around with the ID3 tag fields in iTunes to get what you want. You won't hurt anything and if you don't like the results just delete the tag from the field and it goes back to like it was.
I've tried and it doesn't really do anything, I just thought they way they showed it on the iTunes store was going to be tha way they'll look in my library, no biggie.

Organizing Album by Artist/Year When Multiple Albums a Year

I'm so OCD I want to organize my albums chronologically by year, but if a band has multiple albums in one year, it organizes them alphabetically. Is there a way I can specify the actual date or at least month, so my albums will properly be in order?

Tom,
When you click on the left side of the column head (on the title), it cycles between Album, Album by Artist, Album by Year.
When you click on the right side of the column head (over the arrow) it toggles between Ascending/Descending (Up/Down arrow).
Multipass.
Jim

Sorting Individual Artists by Album by Year

I have a question about how to define how iTunes should sort songs. Currently, I use GRID VIEW to sort songs by artist, giving me the following view:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture2-2.png
Then I have the next section organized with GRID VIEW as well, giving me the following view:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture1-2.png
My question is when in this view, how do I tell iTunes to organize every one of these grids, which is the entire works of a particular artist, by ALBUM BY YEAR in an ascending fashion. You will notice that the second picture is organized in this fashion already, but if I were to return to the grid of artists and click on the same artist again it would revert to the following view:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture3-2.png
As you can see this is not the same view at all, and it is quite frustrating to CONSTANTLY have to tell iTunes to sort the artists by ALBUM BY YEAR. Is there someway I can have iTunes automatically define sorting in this way? Interesting enough not every artist will be sorted in the same fashion as this one (the third picture), indicating to me that there is some way to set the presets for sorting. However, in no case will the sorting technique that I indicate be "saved" for the next time I open that artist. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thank you for your time.

Use the "Option" key when clicking on a sort button in grid view to get additional options.

Cover Flow & Album by Artist / Album by Year

I've been playing with V7 for a few hours now and Cover Flow seems pretty good.
I generally don't like to mess with the sort order of my 15,000 odd database: I like things to be: sorted by Artist, and within artist by album (either alphabetically or by year). Ideally with compilations at the end of the list.
I seem to be able to achieve this using using 'Album' heading - which toggles between album, album-by-artist and album-by-year.
My only 'problem' is that in the Cover Flow view, whilst the ordering is great and I can easily navigate sequentially using the cursor keys, typing a character on the keyboard jumps to the first album with that letter - not the first artist which is what I want.
Am I missing something (or perhaps just want too much without having to keep re-ordering things)?
Any ideas...?
iMac (power PC) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It doesn't seem like it sorts by field or any particular order. It more looks like it sorts by free text, the first match, whatever it is, comes first. That means you'll have to write letters until your lettercombination forms a word/name/album etc that can be found anywhere.
Sitara

HT201272 I spend a considerable amount of time in Asia and am finding the ability to download previous purchases now shown on my iCloud account. Music appears fine and most movies are OK but I have problems with all music videos included with album purch

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Phillip_dc wrote:
Firstly, I purchased my first iPhone a few years ago, since then there have been a lot of apps released, a lot which I downloaded for free, tried and deleted from both my phone and my iTune 'Apps' Panel. What bothers me is when I do get a new iOS device, iPad and/or iPhone 5, and I don't want to just copy the back-up of my current iOS device to the new one, then to get the apps I want I will have to scroll through countless useless 'trash' applications in my purchase history to 'cloud download' the ones I want.
Just sync the apps you want from your computer. You don't need to redownload them directly on the iPhone Purchased list.
Will Apple be employing such a feature, a 'permanently delete/un-purchase' feature?
Dunno.
Send suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Date Error with Albums

i recently been noticing problems with some ordering of my albums
in my itunes window i display my albums by "albums by year" but some albums are placed later when they have an earlier album date
i've tried changing the tags, changing the date etc but nothing moves it to its correct position
I've checked to see if all the info is right and it is
can anyone help with this problem?
thank you in advance

yeah i dont like how itunes organises my files
so i have folders for each artist, then playlists for each album!
i've thought of the rogue characters, so i've checked all the little idyiosyncracies that could be wrong with it
i managed to fix one of my artists by labelling the 'album artist' as the artist and that put them in the right order
but for another artist nothing i did put it in the correct order so i've been forced to add the 'year' in the playlist and organise it through that
i'm very anal when it comes to my organisation and i'd prefer it if things just worked lol
thanx for all your help, i guess now it just remains a mystery!

How do I sort by artist, by album, by year

In iTunes 10, I sorted everything by artist, by album, by year (release date). I can't do that in iTunes 11 or I can't figure out how to do it. Grrrrrrrr Why do they break things?

Cpel1000 wrote:
Very simply (I just figured it out with a little help, so I'll pass it on to you)...Simply go to the VIEW option on the menu bar (show Menu Bar if not showing from upper left corner) and select VIEW OPTIONS and then select Artist in the 1st box, and YEAR in the 2nd. That will do it! Easy enough, new iTunes 11 is fantastic.
That doesn't work. Checking those boxes just determines the columns that will appear. The sort order is determined by the pop up at the top. And with that you choose only a single criteria for sorting.

Album by Year

I cannot get the plain "Album" sort option in iTunes. It changed itself to "album by year" and is sorting most all of my albums out of order and really messing with compilations. I have tried changing the field through the view menu and by clicking on the heading and changing it back to "album", no luck. Even non-compilation albums that were downloaded through iTunes now have out of order track listings. I have searched the discussions, and have tried all of the obvious solutions. How do I get the plain vanilla "album" sort field back?
Thanks for your help.

The normal way to do it is to click on the column header until it says "Album". If that's not working, something's gotten corrupted somewhere.

Album by Year sorting?

Hello, I'm pretty specific about the organization of my albums and prefer them to be alphabetical by artist > album in the order of release. I'm aware and very grateful for iTunes' "Album by Year" sorting option, but have run into one issue--when an artist releases multiple albums in the same year, those become sorted by alphabetical order. To be specific, I've run into this problem with a couple artists before but the worst offender is Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who has released 6 albums in 2009.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround to sort these albums that all came out in the same year by their release order? It's nitpicky, but I'd like to have them in release order (down to the month of necessary, in this case) if possible.
Thanks for your help.

LHHJ wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround to sort these albums that all came out in the same year by their release order? It's nitpicky, but I'd like to have them in release order (down to the month of necessary, in this case) if possible.
see if this post by TT2 offers a solution.
good luck !

Album By Year -- and month? (Sorting when an artist has 2 albums in 1 year)

I love having my music collection sorted by Artist and within Artist by Album by Year. This effectively presents each artists' entire catalogue as a set, with each album in the order of release date. Perfect.
But what if an artist releases more than one album or single in a year?
Then the sorting of Album by Year breaks down.
Two albums in the same year appear to iTunes to have been released at exactly the same time. iTunes gives up, looks at the two albums' titles, and sorts them in alphabetical order. That's kind of lame.
Is there some way to specify the year AND MONTH of release?
I tried adding a decimal to the year field, figuring that would at least be close enough to get them in chronological order, but it won't accept more than 4 digits.
The obvious workaround is to rename the albums, for example rename the second album with a "Z" so it will be forced into second place when iTunes gives up and goes alphabetical. Or, use entirely fake years. But neither workaround is proper.
Is there any legitimate way to tell iTunes what to do?
Gateway NX250X Windows XP Pro

Hi, Will.
But neither workaround is proper.
Indeed.
Is there any legitimate way to tell iTunes what to do?
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is not so your workarounds seem like the best way of dealing with the situation - it's either that or eliminating artists who release more than one record in any given year from your Library. ; - )
All I can suggest is you go to the man and let him know what you'd like to see in a future version of iTunes: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Track sorting in iTunes 9 -- Album by Artist and Album by Year mix disc #s

Here's a weird one I just noticed: on iTunes 8, if you selected to sort by Album, Album by Artist, or Album by Year, the tracks within each album would be sorted properly (all songs from disc 1 in order, followed by all songs from disc 2 in order, etc.).
On iTunes 9, this works fine for Album sort, but if you choose Album by Artist or Album by Year, it essentially ignores the disc numbers and sorts everything by track number (all track #1's, regardless of disc, followed by all track #2's).
Has anyone else noticed this? I'm using iTunes 9 for 64-bit Vista. Is there any work-around or way to get things sorting properly?

I am having the same problem! I just got off the phone with Apple Care and they were of little help. First, he denied ever hearing of this issue on a Mac (as I use) saying it was only an issue for PC users. I am proof that you are wrong, sir. Second, he denied that it was a bug and said Apple is not treating this as a bug (great...). He says it happened because the multi-disc import occurred in iTunes 8. I know this is incorrect because these same discs were imported using iTunes 7 and made the jump to iTunes 8 without a problem. They are in total denial on this one!
Ultimately, he said to try re-importing my entire library. This will be a huge pain as I have over 25k songs! So, if anyone tries this, please let us know if it works. I tried deleting just the single multi-disc album and then re-"Add to Library" with no luck, so I doubt blowing up my entire library would have a different result. Their other "solution" was to completely uninstall iTunes, then download and reinstall and re-import. This seems like a lot of work with no guarantee of success.
How disappointing!

IPhoto behaviour with Albums

can anyone explain or point me in the direction of the reaoning behind iphotos behaviour with Albums and Smart Albums in 2 situations.
the first, is when using Airpics App and Server, the second when viewing a shared library.
my set up is my iPhoto main DB is on a headless Mini. I also have a MBP on the same wireless network that view and controls the Mini.
in situation 1, when my iPad views my Minis library via thr Airpics apps, it says it only views Albums and Smart Albums, not Events but i can see an item that is an event. it consequently is the last full import i do so is the last import considered an album or smart album?
in 2, when i view my Mini iPhoto DB on my MBP via sharing, lots of Albums and Smart Albums come up from the past that i have deleted. Where is it gettign this info from? is it old stuff from the Minis DB coming through? Or are these current or old stuf from my MBP somehow? when i open the Minis DB on my MBP using Alt-Open and selecting the DB Directly instead of over sharing, these Albums / Smart Albums dont exist. i only see what i expect to see, Currwnt set up..

thank you again Terence.
you see ma bit of an iPhoto Guru, Terence and i dont know how else to contact you and i know its niot right to change a thread half way through but do you have any knowledge on the best way to handle this situation:
i have my iphoto on my headless Mini, controlled by MBP remotely and within the same Wi fi network when home. Iphoto over both is unusably slow. How could i combat this? im told not to use the Mini Library via MBP sleected via ALT when opening as if WiFi drops out it can corrupt. If i use the Sharing from the iPhoto.Mini to MBP, iPhoto.Mini must be open therefore iPhoto.Mini on Sharing on MBP cant be editted, only viewed. The one utility that helps is the iPhoto Manager but all that essentially does is copy from one to another over WiFi so i dont see the difference in that app doing it or me manually doing it, TBH id rather manually do it.
And i need to store the iPhoto main DB at home as iTunes and my iPad use it while i'm not there, and its now too big to carry around on a 5 year old MBP.
I like a lot of others seem lost on how to effectively manage and use iPhoto

Want to organize library by "album", not "album by year"

I had my library organized by "album". I closed itunes, started back up, and now it appears as "album by year" (even though the right-click drop down menu lists it as just "album". I have tried closing itunes, restarting the computer, and downloading the latest itunes update. I can't seem to get back to the "album" tab. Ideas?

Click on the column header again.
It switches thru Album -> *Album by Artist* -> *Album by Year*.

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