Alphabetical sort order

Over the past week I have noticed that my collection of 15k+ songs, stored on an external HD, is no longer stored alphabetically by artist but is now instead sorted alphabetically by album. I am not aware of having done anything to change this and suspect it has something to do with iTunes 8. Try as I might, I can't find how to change it back the way I want it. Can anyone help?

Which view are you using? And have you tried clicking on a different sort tab at the top of your library window? The active one should be dark blue and the others gray.
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Thank you so much for your answer. It works great. I have a promlem only one letter, which is in the Czech alphabetics: "Ch". This letter would be after the "H". I have edited the sort order like this:
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Unfortunatelly, it does not work.
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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.
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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 ...

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In reference to the following query posted:
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3 select 'sip' from dual union all
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6 select 'test' from dual union all
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8 select 'test2' from dual )
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10 from
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12 from tbl
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17 where translate(c1,'0123456789 ',' ') is null)
18 order by c2,c1;
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I am thankful that your query worked out well....
But then I have a problem with it.
It does sort the list first alphabetically and then numerically. But the problem is, in alphabetcal sorting.It takes all the the words starting with capital letters as one set and the ones starting with small letters as a different set.So it will first alphabetically sort the capital words first, then the set of small letter words and finally the numbers. For eg:
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annie
apple
Carrot
zaire
Zap
123
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345
Ant
Break
Dark
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Ant
Break
Carrot
Dark
Yougurt
Zap
annie
apple
success
zaire
123
345
But I want the query to take the list of alphabetical words as one single set. I dont want it to make a differentiation between capital letters and small letters.
Also after sorting the capital and small letters in the original value should remain as such.i.e.; the data should not changed.Only the order should change.
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annie
Ant
apple
Break
Carrot
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success
Yougurt
zaire
Zap
123
345
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Thanking in advance......
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Qte
thank you Andrea for your reply,
That's a big shame if this change was intended. To have your Albums listed in a casual order and not Alphabetically seems a huge step back for the iOS version and all of its users. It makes that menu redundant in all honesty, especially if you have over 100 albums. Why change or take away a very important part of the experience that a lot of users want?
For instance, this morning I regrettably started my 3 month trial with Apple Music to see how this experience is. As much as I didn't want to, I felt like I should give it a try, since the main part of my experience with Spotify has changed/gone.
They list the Albums exactly like Spotify used to (before the last update). So in Artist Alphabetical order, with the Albums underneath in alphabetical order too. This means I can scroll through all of "My Music" in alphabetical order without realising some artists are at the top or bottom and mixed in with others.
For me, it makes no sense at all for Spotify to change this. It now looks a mess and the "Album" section to me, and others, is now useless. I now have to filter "Artists" and select that, to then select an album I want. This is not intuitive at all. As I said, it's a step backwards.
I hope the team look at this seriously, because it could possibly put users off the experience. I for one have defended the Spotify team on forums such as Reddit, who mostly put the team down for the huge problems on the desktop version recently, saying its a step backwards for most features. I now seem a bit bewildered why the team are also doing this for the iOS version.
I think you get my point anyway. To change something so important without explanation is madness. Your team need a lot more communication with it's users, or you could be losing quite a few of them to an alternative streaming service.
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