ITunes 7.3.1 - What's new ?

Question

I notice that a new version is available. What does it fix ? Does it get rid of the library unknown error -50 I have been suffering from ?
John.

Answer 1

That's an ok solution, but I'd prefer ?uestlove to be
sorted where you'd commonly expect to see a name
starting with a symbol ... at the top.
Going with an unconventional scheme is like deciding
you're going to sort the letter "a" in the middle of
the alphabet. I know Apple is revolutionary, but
some things are just "accepted." Go to any library
... you'll see what I mean.
The better workaround for artists that begin with punctuation or numbers seems to be to use "AAA " in front of the artist name in the Sort Artist field. Thus ?uestlove would have a Sort Artist of "AAA ?uestlove", putting it at the top ahead of all the "A" artists, but still appearing as
?uestlove. Thankfully the "Apply Sort Field..." command was fixed with 7.3.1 which makes this easier to apply to multiple songs by an artist.
But still, all this is a workaround to a change that was not expected by numerous iTunes users, and counter-intuitive to those familiar with how characters are sorted in any other computer application.