Albums in year of order

How can i get my albums to show up in order of year instead of alphabetically?

I have a similar question, except I want the artists albums by year, within the main library list.
So if I have the library sorted by Artist, I want a secondary sort by year with the oldest year at the top -- so if you use U2 as an example, In the library, all the bands that start with "T" would be above U2 in the list, then U2, I want the list to go in order of album by year, so Boy > October > War, etc...
Is there anyway to have a "secondary sort" - I use to use a program called "Now Contact" and there was a secondary sorting ability for columns.
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I seem to be able to achieve this using using 'Album' heading - which toggles between album, album-by-artist and album-by-year.
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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.
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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).
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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

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This is really insignificant, I know, but it's bizarre, and I can't figure out why it's happening.
On one specific album, out of 1370, when I sort my library as Album by Artist or Album by Year, a single track is out of order. It is track 12, but appears at the end, after track 14. No matter what I put as the track number for that track, it will always be placed at the end of the album. It is not labeled as a different disc, album, or album artist, or as part of a compilation, nothing is misprinted, and near as I can tell, the track's info is completely consistent with the rest of the album. I even deleted all the track info for the whole album and manually filled it back in, and it still appears out of order. The tracks DO appear in the correct order when I only sort by album.
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OK, putting something in the Album Artist field for the album fixed it.
Near as I can tell, the track info for the album was inconsistent when I downloaded it, and though I deleted the "album artist" field for the whole album, more than once even, it somehow still registered as being different for that one track. Now when I delete the field for the whole album, it stays in order regardless of sorting method.

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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.
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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'
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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.
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Hope I've been clear
Thanks a lot for any answer.
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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.

Albums by year??

I asked for the 'years' in my itunes library headings. They appeared, but the Albums were now listed by year, too. I have deleted the year catagory and also the album catagory on the view options pull down. When I check 'album' again, I get 'album by year". DRAT! I want the albums in alphabetical order, not by year!
thanks,
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You should be able to click on the "Album" heading until it cycles through the choices and simply says "Album," which is in ABC order (and in reverse ABC order if you click the little arrow in the heading). I'm clicking through it right now and having my library sorted by Album by Artist -> (click) -> Album by Year -> (click) -> Album without troubles. Having the "Year" column enabled in the Options didn't cause a problem for me, either; I'm running iTunes 7.0.2.

What is that new"Album by year" list who completly disorganise my songs...

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It is just another option for arranging your library.
Click on the column heading again to change the
order.
I did that, but when I click on "Album" I get this "album by year", but as I was trying to fix it, it changed name, now it is "Album by artist" which is NOT "Album Artist" on the list.
I must I have done something but I don't know what...
What I want it is that when I click on "Album"
I get "Album" and nothing else which is not on the column heading...

Sorting albums by year doesn't work properly in new iTunes 11.

Sorting albums by year doesn't work properly in new iTunes 11.
See the screenshots below.
There's a kind of albums. Double CD in one set. Queen "The Works" 1984, for example.
First CD is the original release and the second one is bonus CD for the original album's reissue in 2011.
iTunes 10 took year info from track 1 of CD1 for "sort album by year" function.
But new iTunes 11 takes the highest value of year in the album's track list.
Same things with additional bonus tracks for the album's reissues.
See the screenshot of Madonna "Like a Virgin" 1984 album.
So my collection is in a huge mess after last update to iTunes 11.
It's a big problem. And must be solved to the next update.

I noticed this too, and I think it gets even more complicated when you think about the difference between how you want Re-releases to be ordered: based upon the intial release year (like you have described above), and Compilations or Greatest Hits: where you want them to be sorted by when the albums were actually released. iTunes 11 seems to just grab the date of the most recently released song on an album. This worked fine for 2/3 of my Compilation albums, because they just happened to be released the same year as the latest song on each album.
Compilation example (released: 2003, latest song on album: 1969):
This is what I submitted to Apple as feedback:
This issue is actually aimed at iTunes 11, but 10.6.3 is the most recent version number I could select in the drop-down menu.
As with normal albums, iTunes 11 puts a release year next to "Various Artists" in Albums > Expanded View (and also in the Songs and Genre Tabs). However, iTunes seems to produce this number by looking for the last released song on the album. This has worked fine for 2/3 of my compilations, but the third one is a 60s compilation released in 2003. It displays "1969" next to "Various Artists" and there are no tags available in Get Info to change this. This also happens to greatest hits collections.
When selecting View > View Options > "Artist" then "Year" in Album view, and View > View Options > "Year" in Artist and Genre view, the above issue causes compilations, greatest hits collections, and re-releases (Although users may want re-releases to be listed in order of original release) to be sorted in the wrong order.
Considering iTunes 11 has added this feature (in previous iTunes versions, "Year" would only appear next to individual tracks), it is a shame an "Album Year" or "Sort Album Year" hasn't been added to the Get Info options.
As is, the only solution I can think of is to change all track years to the release year of the album.
I imagine this might be a bit of an edge case, and not something the majority of iTunes users would care about, but then again, I could imagine a fair number of musicphiles wanting control over this metadata.
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