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I am sick of sending in an enhancement request almost every new itunes release to ask if there can be more flexibility and user choice in how to sort things in iTunes. What I mean is that "An Ocean Between Us" should go under "A" not "O" like Apple forces it to be. I would also like numbers to come first like it does in the rest of the world and like it did in the past in iTunes 7.something. So I'm reaching out now to ask if there is a 3rd party software that works with iTunes that can fix this purposefully instituted problem. I could go through evey single song/artist/album and do it manually but since I have a ton of songs that would take months and I'd surely miss a lot. I understand that Apple likes to try to reinvent the wheel everytime but reinventing the wheel with a hexagonal shape is idiotic and doesn't work like people want it to. I don't know of anyone who actually likes the sorting in iTunes, except for skipping over "The" at the beginning of titles. So is there a 3rd party program that works with iTunes that can do what I want, or am I stuck with this idiotic sorting for now?
Thanks!

sam5500 wrote:
I am sick of sending in an enhancement request almost every new itunes release to ask if there can be more flexibility and user choice in how to sort things in iTunes. What I mean is that "An Ocean Between Us" should go under "A" not "O" like Apple forces it to be.
So fix it in Sort fields.
-> http://www.macworld.com/article/1131514/sortingitunes.html

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