Edit the Sort Album

Is it possible to edit the sort album category for multiple songs? I put all the songs that I do not have the complete CDs for under an album called 'No Album' and I want to make the Sort Album for this simply 'Z' so it will be listed after the other albums by that artist instead of in the middle. I would like to be able to do this without having to individually edit over 1000 songs. Any ideas?

I figured it out.
Then right click the title bars and add the 'sort artist' or whichever field you want to edit so that it is displayed as a column along with 'artist', 'album', etc.
Change the information in the field you want for one of the songs, then select all the songs you want to change (along with the one you already have changed) and right click them and at the bottom of the menu is 'Apply sort field', which gives you another menu of selections. Just chose the one you want and it will change all of the selected songs to match the field you select with the first song you changed (assuming the other songs DO NOT have any info in the same field).
For instance, I wanted to change the 'Sort Artist' field of all of my Jimi Hendrix songs, because for some reason, iTunes was not recognizing it as a person's name and automatically populating the 'Sort Artist' field. So I changed one song's 'Sort Artist' field to say 'Hendrix, Jimi' and then selected ALL of his songs and right clicked them. I went down to the 'Apply Sort Field' and chose 'Same Artist' and it populated ALL of the Jimi Hendrix songs with 'Hendrix, Jimi' in the 'Sort Artist' field.
Hope that makes sense....it's 4:30am here...lol

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