Album view sorted by year in reversed order?

Apple, why did you take this feature away? People with large libraries of albums don't want to scroll down a long way to get to the albums added lately.
The option to show the year of the files added in album view was also a big hit in previous versions.

Really really annoying! Over the years I ordered manually my huge library sorting tracks with this technique:
http://forums.ilounge.com/itunes-mac-pc/263083-sort-order-when-using-album-artis t-year-album-list-view.html
Now this trick doesn't work anymore and there's no way to order albums descending.
The new GUI is absolutely nice, Apple give us an additional selectbox like JayBrar says

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Sorting By Year Released

Hello,
Within iTunes playlists I want to sort by "Year" in descending order, so that the newest album appears at the top of the playlist. But for some reason when I do that it then displays the tracks in descending order, which makes no sense.
Is there a way to sort it so that the newest album is as the top but the tracks are still in ascending order (1, 2, 3, instead of 3,2,1)?
Thanks
G

I know. Smart Playlists are OK, but you get a limited number of fixed sort orders, and reversing them isn't album sensitve. I'd also like raw SQL (like) Playlists where you get to play with subfield ordering too.
You could drop a line to iTunes Feedback.
tt2

Itunes 11 Book author and Album artist sort problems

(I've changed the name here, to protect the innocent and avoid comments about my taste. I shall call him 'Fred Anydude' )
I have an ebook by 'Fred Anydude'. He appears in book view under the [Authors section] in the right place i.e. with those Authors whose last name begins with 'A', (because the sort artist field has been set up as 'Anydude, Fred'.)
Then I acquire a music album, also by Fred Anydude (Hey, what can I say, he's talented). The problem is in the music view in the Artist section I expect Fred Anydude, to appear with the other artists beginning with F (as is the convention for music artist sort order), but he doesnt. He's appears with the A's again. The sort artist is blank in the case of the music album and its songs. So I set up the sort artist for the album and its tracks as Fred Anydude. I switch views, to give the opportunity for a refresh, I even restart itunes - Fred Anydude is still being sorted according to his book view sort artist despite what I've set up for his music: Still appearing with the A's
But to confuse matters, under Album view with the Album view sort order set to 'by Artist', the album does appear along with other artists beginning with F.
To make matters worse if I do a search for Fred Anydude, I only get shown the book in the results. The music doesn't even appear.
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I suppose a better way to differentiate between album artist and artist is to say Track Artist.

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Using PC Suite 7.1.26.0 in Vista 32bit the month view now displays appointments in reverse order starting with the last appointment for the day at say 17.00 and then it goes down the list for the day and at the bottom displays the first appointment at say 08.00. Any ideas how to reverse this list to show 08.00 at the top of the list? Thanks.

Hi,
Which phone are you using? Type *#0000# on your phone and paste the complete info here

Can you sort albums by release date, rather than year, in album view?

I love the new album view in iTunes 11, but the only problem I have with it is sometimes albums are in the wrong order.
For example, last year Green Day released a trilogy of albums called ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! but since they were released in the same year, they're ordered as ¡Dos!, ¡Tré, ¡Uno! when sorted by artist and then year which really doesn't sit right with me.
In short, the sorting options for albums view are very limited, is there any way to extend them?
Also I'm aware that I could, as a cheap fix, change the sorting in album to the release date backwards, but I'd rather not do that as it would make it a bit more troublesome for me to navigate my albums on my iPhone.
Thanks!

I agree that Apple should improve the year field to be an actual date.
I am not 100% happy doing this, but when you have multiple albums from a single artist for the same release year, a temporary solution is to chage the album title by adding an outline type letter before album titles for that year, so that they appear in the correct order:
David Bowie
1977
a. Low
David Bowie
1977
b. "Heroes"
etc
This could help in the short term until Apple changes that field.

Play Order on Album Sort by Year Funk

I was super pleased to find that iTunes 9.01 fixed the bug regarding sorting multi-disc albums while sorting album by year.
However, now I'm noticing that when I'm playing an artist's discography, while sorted by year, instead of playing the albums in chronological order (like they've been visually sorted), it plays the albums in alphabetical order (default sort). So I could be playing an artists' first of five albums, but if the album name starts with a 'Z' then it will just stop the playlist all together, as if the end of said playlist has been reached.
Also, does anyone else who sorts by year find it annoying that iTunes finds it prudent to always switch back to sorting by album alphabetically whenever I'm not looking? I find that quite annoying.
Any ideas? Thoughts? Thanks!

Oh poop. I just updated the two extensions "I Love Stars" and "Cover Stream."
I'm no longer having problems with my music stopping after 'all' of an artists' music plays 'all' through. But still, anyone else having similar issues?
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Is there a way to show album year in "albums view" in iTunes?

I have around 1500 albums and I like viewing them all in my albums view with the cover showing. I have sorted them by year which works, but when you are scrolling through them all the years are just bunched together (they are in order though). In previous versions of itunes I would be able to see "2013" and then all albums from that year below... then "2014" then all albums below etc. If I scroll through all my albums back to 2003 for instance, its hard for me to tell what year I am in. So is there a way to get the year to show? I know I had this in the past working, but maybe this feature was removed in itunes 11. thanks for any input!!

Thanks! Header was the word I was looking for. Maybe they will bring this feature back in an update or in Itunes 12.
Thanks!

Can I transfer my hand made album sequence (sort order) defined in element when I turn a local album into a mobile album used with IPAD. Or do I have to change the dates artificially?

Can I transfer my hand made album sequence (sort order) defined in elemenst when I turn a local album into a mobile album used with IPAD. Or do I have to change the dates artificially?

Andrew, I know I am extremely late to the party but I too use Grid View. I had the same problem that you had but have found this to work for me. I used it and it is still holding as my default sorting even after switching between the Artist page and Grid View.
Once you are inside of the Artist page continue to click on the Album column until it shows Album by Artist/Year.
That will give you each album sorted by the year instead of it randomly sorting it for you each time you leave an Artist's page and then back again.
Hope this helps.

ITunes burning albums/playlists in reverse order

BURNING CD's IN REVERSE TRACK ORDER... (Version 8.2.1)
Here is the solution to this problem that has been ruining all of my blank cd's.
I was viewing all of my albums and playlists in the "grid" view. The solution is to simply switch to "list" view. Now, when clicking the little black arrow in the column heading for play order, to the left of the track name, all of the numbers should remain the same, with 1 at the top and the last track at the bottom. The actual tracks will reverse each time you click the arrow, but the numbers will stay the same, allowing you to actual be changing the order.
If you are in "grid" view, clicking on the little black arrow in that column will reverse the view of the tracks, but if you notice, a track with play order of 7 will stay with that associated file name even if you click it.
Switch to "list" view and a track with a play order of 7 will change to a different track after clicking the arrow. You will now be able to un-reverse any playlists or albums you are having problems with.

ALSO...
If you create your playlist from an album that is in "grid" view, the tracks will be reversed and you will not be able to un-reverse the playlist by changing views. It doesn't make any sense, but try switching to list view before selecting the album/tracks you want to create the playlist from.
I guess this is the actual solution, more than my previous post.
I hope I was not the only person frustrated by this problem for so long...

In songs view, sort by 'album' alone stopped working

I normally prefer to view my songs in iTunes using the 'Songs' view, listing everything with the details shown. I'll usually set it to sort by 'Album'.
Clicking on the 'Album' header used to give me options that I could cycle through, but suddenly it is stuck on sorting only by 'Album by Artist', and I no longer have the option to simply sort by 'Album' alone.
I am unable to restore the ability to sort only by 'Album', have gone through all of the menu choices in how I view or sort my albums. Can anyone suggest a reason for this happening, and a way to fix it?
I have not made any changes to my system software or applications recently that would be obvious causes for this happening. All of my software is up-to-date.
iMac (mid-2007); OSX 10.9.4, iTunes 11.3.1 (2)

I've tried re-installing my iTunes software and searched throughout the forums and elsewhere without so far being able to determine how to resolve this difficulty.
In case my original question formulation was not clear, in the past I could click on the header (while viewing my iTunes library in 'Songs' view) and cycle through "Album", "Album by Artist", in either ascending or descending order, and so forth.
Now I'm only able to chose between "Album by Artist", either ascending or descending. There is no "Album" view option available to me, as there has always been in the past.
I'm completely puzzled as to how this happened. Perhaps I inadvertently hit the wrong key combination while using iTunes and it changed something, I just don't know.
I would really appreciate it if any other forum members have suggestions as to how I might fix this!

Sort by "Year" in "Genre View" in iTunes 11

Not having a lot of luck with iTunes 11.
I am deep with a large number of albums by certain Artist (The Beatles, The Rolling Stone, Van Morrison, etc. ...). To manage my collection I have given (for example) "The Beatles" their own Genre. So, when I'm in "Genre View" I want my Beatle albums sorted by "Year" and not Alphabetical.
Both "Genre View" and "Artists View" seem to be static and the number of sorting options are limited.
I'm I missing something?

You mean like that?

ITunes 11 [Songs view] - Sort on artist, then year

I just downloaded iTunes 11 and there seem to be some features missing compared to iTunes 10. One of the most important issues is that in the "Songs" view, I cannot seem to sort on (1) Artist and (2) Album year. It seems that iTunes is automatically sorting as (1) Artist, (2) Album name alphabetically. For example, for Norah Jones, first the album Little Broken Hearts (2012) is displayed, and after that the album Not Too Late (2007). Does anyone know if this can still be done in iTunes 11 or is the feature missing completely? Interestingly enough, in the "Albums" view, there is an option to sort by Artist, then Year (view --> view options).
Another issue, which I believe has been adressed in other topics as well, is the complete missing of albumart in the "Songs" view. Consequently, this was also the place in iTunes 10 where you could choose to sort on Arist/Year. I really hope that Apple puts this feature back in iTunes 11 as soon as possible.

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing. Just downloaded iTunes 11 and now I can't sort albums by year in the "Artists" view. I used to prefix all my album mp3 tag names with the year number to work around this, but removed it when Apple added the Artist/Year sort. Now it's gone. Yay!
A note: you can use the free mp3tag.de software to insert your year tag into your album titles using regular expressions. If there doesn't seem to be any obvious solution to sorting by Artist/Album/Year in the next couple days, then I'll post here with some tips if anyone is interested.

Sorting albums by artist then year

I have a bunch of albums imported into my itunes but I have problems sorting them the way I want it.
I want it to be sorted first by artist then by year so I have all the albums from 1 artist together in the order they was released
Now itunes sort by artist then album name
How is that changed?

Click on the Album column header. It will change to Album by Artist, then Album by Year.
This will sort all the songs by Artist and then Year.

In IPhoto 11 I have made an album and rearrange the photos in the order I require them. When export the album to allow me to burn them to disk to be viewed in Windows they do not maintain the same order. What am I doing wrong?

In IPhoto 11 I have made an album and rearrange the photosin the order I require them. When export the album to allow me to burn them todisk to be viewed in Windows they do not maintain the same order. What am I doingwrong?

When you sort the Album in iphoto are you sorting manually? Or by date of the photos?
When you sort in the Finder how are are you sorting?
Here's one way to do what you're trying to do:
Create your Album and sort the pics as you want them. Then Photos Menu: Batch Change -> Set Title to Text "John's Birthday", for instance, and tick the box to append a number to each Photo. Now your photos are titled 'John's Birthday 001, John's Birthday 002 ... etc'
Then File -> Export and in the Export dialogue set the Filename to "Use Title"
Sort on Filename in the Finder and you end up with a folder full of images in the same order as the Album in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

Sorting Same Year Albums

Hello, I have looked for a solution, and so far nothing. Hope someone can help me here!
Here's my situation. I have separate Smart Playlists for my Artists, and I sort by year within them for the artist's chronological library of songs. Here's the issue: I have an instance or two where the artist released two albums in the same year (in this case - KISS released self-titled album "KISS" and "Hotter Than ****" both in 1974).
And again in this instance, it places these albums in Alphabetical view based on album title. This causes Hotter Than **** to be placed first, which isn't correct.
Is there a way to either refine for more precise release date, or a totally different way of going by this?
Any help would rock

I've had this problem too.
I solved it by entering a new value in the Album sorting field.
Select all songs > get info > Sorting
Note: The album title will still show as "Kiss".

Album view sorted by year in reversed order?

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