Better album sorting?

Hello!
While using the browse-mode, it seems to sort albums alphabetically instead of chronologically. Is there a way to change this?
Alphabetical sort is very tiresome with artists who have released many albums. It's hard to associate a name to a certain style or era with alphabetical sorting. A chronological order would help me with this.
--Antti

Yeah, that's a work-around. But with 10+ album band you have a hundred songs from which to find the first of an album.
Apparently it's not possible to sort the Album-list in the upper right-hand corner by year?
--Antti
iMac G5, 1.8 GHz Mac OS X (10.4)

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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?
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As these forums officially are not read by Apple (except from moderators), you could mail your feature request using this page:
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