A Question Of Album Sorting

Is there any way I can get albums to sort chronologically on my iPod Touch when I select an artist, instead of alphabetically? If so, how?

That is not a sorting option

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Hi everyone,
I own a Creative Zen Touch 20Gb and I love it (although the new zen players are probably alot better).
I have a question concerning album order. The albums are sorted in alphabetical order, but I'd prefer them sorted by order of date. So when I search through my library or load all tracks of an artists, the tracks be listed by album date then track number, instread of album alphaetical order...
Anyone know if this is possible? Otherwise, I'll launch a petition
Cheers all,
LaTomate.

well I`ve never heard about the "album date" sorting in other players.Anyway the player sorts the album names by alphabetical order and the tracks in an album are sorted by this priority(as far as I know):- track number(although u cannot see it)2- alphabetical order of track title3- If the files has no ID3 info in their track title it just arrange them by their filename?If u`r willing to start a petition for more options plz go ahead although nothing really happens.Many petitons have been conducted for "ogg support,looseless play,dual firmware" but sadly nothing happened. peace?

How do I print a list albums sorted by artist

iTunes 12.1.2.27 Windows 7 SP 1 (64 bit)
I would like to generate a list of albums in my library sorted by artist. This used to work fine before I upgraded to iTunes 12 last fall by using File > Print > Album listing / Theme: List of albums.
Since the iTunes 12 upgrade the list is generated sorted by album title and not by artist. I have my View options set to Albums - Sort by Artist them by Title.
Even though the theme clearly states sorted by artist, it generated a list sorted by album title. How do I fix this so that it generates what the theme description states?
Thanks for your help and insight in restoring the old print behavior.

Hi ed,
I am on iTunes 12.1.2.27 ... but what I get is albums sorted by title in both the preview and the output file. This behavior has been consistent since I upgraded to iTunes 12 ... with iTunes 11 it did work like what you are seeing. I do think it is some sort of bug ... iTunes 12 was not the smoothest software upgrade I have see. I did run into a lot of lock-ups and trashing of album art in the 12,0 releases but this latest release (12.1.2.27) seems to be have taken care of most of those issues.
I might look into doing a complete removal of iTunes and then try a new clean reinstall but I was hoping that maybe there was some setting, or config file parameter, that might fix this..
Thanks for your response.

[iOS][Your Music] Album sort by artist is out of order

After the 3.4.0.684 update for IOS, the album sort by artist is out of order. It looks like the sort is only factoring in the first letter in the sort as seen below. Can the old sort methodology be put back in.

Updated: 2015-07-08

Album sort order missing

I want to use 'Recently Added' in album view while hiding all rated albums.
I do not understand why the new 'album' sort order is restricted to only a few fields, while the 'songs' sort order doesn't have the two-level; sorting that the album sort order has. Both of these views have half the functionality I want.

Figured it out. I added "Various Artists" in the Album Artist field for every track and it then sorted them all together.

"iPod" album sorting

Has anyone figured out how to sort albums chronologically by "Artist" in an iPod. I tried sorting albums in iTunes which works great, but as soon as you put the artist in your iPod it defaults that artist's albums back to alphabetical. I know that the software in the iPod is not iTunes, but it seems that if the artist sort tag carries over then the album sort tag should as well.

I put the year in brackets at the beginning of the album title and number the songs on all my music - Goes back to when I had a Zen that wouldn't even play the album in order. This keeps everything in chronological order, but kind of screws me when it comes to using things like fetch album art or lyrics.
If chronological is more important to you (like it is to me), you might try this. Besides, I'm also picky about added the correctly sized artwork.

[solved] ncmpcpp - album sort?

Have recently set up a headless server for my multimedia needs. Since I control it via ssh I had to install a console music player and have decided on mpd/ncmpcpp. One thing that bugs me is that the Media Library sorts with Artist as the first criteria. Even in the 2-column view where Album takes precedence, it is still Album (sorted by artist), which is kind of silly since I can get that already in the 3 column view. And so it is difficult to access my albums which are compilations of many artists. Is there any way I can have "Album" and see all the songs in that album in the next column?
Or failing which are there any other console players I can use?
Last edited by stryder (2011-08-13 13:12:00)

stryder wrote:
And so it is difficult to access my albums which are compilations of many artists. Is there any way I can have "Album" and see all the songs in that album in the next column?
Or failing which are there any other console players I can use?
Thats what the albumartist tag is for. And ncmpcpp supports this one just fine. just add tag "albumartist = Soundtrack" (for example) on those albums.
to make ncmpcpp sort media library using this tag, hit ` and then A for albumartist.
**edit** also make sure, to add the albumartist tag to the supported ones in mpd.conf
Last edited by Rasi (2011-08-13 08:24:50)

Album sort processing made easy...... please???

How can I have my albums sort like when the "songs" tab is selected i.e.( all together) .... under the albums tab all my albums are divided into each song on that album......... = A mess. If all my albums are neatly stacked under songs how can I copy that form to "Albums"...... hope you ge my drift?
I dont have the time to check out every album and song to have all same info so that they all "collect" together?
Save me some late nights please

Looks like a good enhancement to me.
As these forums officially are not read by Apple (except from moderators), you could mail your feature request using this page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
The 'Provide iTunes Feedback' menu item in the iTunes menu of iTunes brings you to the same page.
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Album sorting problem?

I have an iPod nano, believe it's first generation, that I got in June 2006. It's always worked fine, but recently I've been having a problem with album sorting. I prefer not to sort my songs into albums at all, but a few do have albums listed. But now when I look up music by artist, rather than displaying "all" and have the album(s) listed below, it automatically goes to the album.
For example, I had one Taylor Swift song with an album listed, and all her other songs without. When I go to her name, it automatically goes to that one song, and I can't see the others without albums. THe other songs can still be found under "songs" on my ipod. When I delete the album, it's fixed, but I really don't want to do that. Anyone know how to fix this?

Once you add a second album name for that artist even for a single song, ALL the rest of the songs should now show up under that artist, even those without album names.

The new update limits album sorts to album by artist year and is too limiting. How do I get the standard sort by album alone

The new update limits album sorts to album by artist year and is too limiting. How do I get the standard sort by album alone?

Click the heading of the Album column to cycle between Album, Album by Artist and Album By Artist/Year.
tt2

Moving Multiple Albums & Album Sort Order Questions

Hopefully this is a really easy question to answer, but I just can't figure out how to do this.
1. Can you move multiple albums around in Aperture? I just imported my iPhoto libraries and I'd like to groups a set of the albums that I have into one project. The problem is that I can only move one album at a time.
2. Can you specify the sort order or manual set the order that albums appear in projects or folders? It seems that Aperture automatically sorts them alphabetically.
Thanks!

1. Can you move multiple albums around in Aperture?
unfortuantely, as far as i am aware you can only move one at a time
2. Can you specify the sort order or manual set the
order that albums appear in projects or folders? It
seems that Aperture automatically sorts them
alphabetically.
you are correct, automatically alphabetically only ... i haven't been abble to change this at all ... the only way to force something else is by adding a ~ or other character that is ahead of 0 ...

Album sorting question

I just got the classic and I love it so far. I've managed to sort most of my albums the way I want. I am bugged by one thing, though. When I'm browsing by Artist and click the artist name it will bring up all the albums by that particular artist. However, when I click an artists name that only has one album it goes straight to the track listing. Is there a way to have it display the album first? As though that artist had multiple albums...
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That's how it works in mine (iTunes verions 10.1 on windows 7). My albums are listed in alphabetical artist order, with compilation albums being listed as being by 'various artists'.
For the individual tracks for the album do you have 'part of a compilation' ticked when in 'get info' (bottom right of the info tab when viewing a single track, middle of the options tab when viewing multiple tracks) ?

Album Sort Order in iTunes vs iPod

WIth the newer Versions of iTunes, albums are sorted in alphabetical order ignoring the word "The". (i.e. On iTunes the following albums would be in this order: Sub Songs, The Super Songs, Suzy Music where on my iPod, the following albums would be placed in this order: Sub Songs, Suzy Music, The Super Songs lumping all "The" titles amongst the Ts.) Does anyone know why this sort feature is not the same on iPod AND iTunes? Please advise.
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Sorting has become a complete mess. Though, it's quite logical from Apple to sort albums by ignoring the because it makes searching for albums a lot easier since there are numerous albums (and artists) beginning with that word.
But I guess that an answer to your question can only be given by an Apple engineer who makes iPod software.
from Apple's website
Seamlessly sync your iPod with iTunes – guess not, huh?!
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IPhoto Questions: Merge and Sort; Cropping; Collage

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     I have some iPhoto questions:
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As it merges the libraries iphoto library manager will ask you what you want to do with duplicates. However, remember files with different sizes are not duplicates. Also importing one library to another is not a good idea. You'll get a mess of different versions of files treated as new imports, so that's no way to merge.

Album sort order PSE11 - is it by design ?

When experimenting with the sort order of albums in PSE11, I was surprised to see that in some albums, changing the sort order from 'oldest' to 'newest' did not produce any effect.
The reason of this probably lies in the menu /preferences/general :
If you have only pictures taken the same day, the above setting will still show 'oldest first' even you choose 'newest first' for album order.
I believe that the most used order is 'album order' and that the 'newest first' is very rare.
I can understand the option to browse 'oldest first within each day' when in 'newest first' in thumbnail view.
However, I wonder if that option makes sense to sort an album ?
Was it by design ?
If it were me...
I would not use that preference for an album,
and...
I would add the option to sort by filename and caption.

Figured it out. I added "Various Artists" in the Album Artist field for every track and it then sorted them all together.

A Question Of Album Sorting

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