Alphabetic Listing of Songs

Question

How do I list the songs in iTunes in the normal alphabetical listing?
As they are lsited now, included in the list of all song names starting with "A" would be song names like "The Apple" or "The Archies".
How would I change the listing to have "The Apple" and "The Archies" under song names starting with "T"?

Answer 1

This sorting issue was the source of much frustration for myself for a long time as I wanted the albums on my iPod to show up in the order that they were released, not alphabeticaly. (yeah I'm anal!)Easy enough task in iTunes, but difficult on your iPod.The way I did it was to go into the sort menu of the first song of an album and under 'album name' insert the year of release BEFORE the title. eg, 1983 Texas Flood. (And here is where it relates to you,) The next step is to select the entire album, right click, and instead of selecting 'get info', click on 'apply sort field'. Another drop box appears,you then click on whichever is appropriate, in my case, 'same album'. The same technique can be used to sort artists. In this example, under 'sort artist name',I entered 'Vaughn Stevie Ray', he is now listed under V instead of S. You can do all the sort changes you like for an album in one hit and when you click on 'apply sort field', select the option 'all matching fields'. You can sort the artist name on all of the albums by one artist in one hit using this method, just be sure to only choose the 'same artist' option when doing it or you'll stuff up album titles as well. Also be aware that when applying sort fields to multple tracks, that the track at the top of the list is dominate and all those below will be made to match it. If you sort the artist by their surname and it begins with a letter that is closer to Z than their first name is, eg: Ben Harper, the first track you change will drop below the rest (if your library is set to display albums by artist)because it is now by Harper Ben, not Ben Harper. To combat this you will need to go to the column heading where it says 'album by artist' and click on it. This should reverse the order and put the newly altered track back at the top where you need it.(Hint It helps to isolate artists or albums you are sorting by locating them via the search menu in the top right hand corner of your library before you start, so you don't have your entire library jumping all over the place at once.) Good luck, hours of 'fun',I can assure you.