Problem Sorting on Artist Name with numbers in title

I just upgraded to iTunes 7.7 and when I sort by artist, all the artists with numbers in their name (3 doors down, 10,000 Maniacs) appear after the "Z's" at the very end of my library, I want them before the "A's" as the first block of songs in my library, can't firgure out how to do that, it was always that way in my previous iTune versions, but with the upgrade it changed by itself
Can anyone help, I am sure this should be easy as I never had to do anything before to get this sorting behavior

This was changed in version 7.3.
See this -> iTunes 7.3: Changes in music sort order

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Problem sorting by artist name

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Because it sorts by the name in the artist column.
Alberta comes before Harry.
If you want *Harry Allen* filed under A and *Alberta Hunter* under H then put the names in the *Sort Artist* column as *Allen, Harry* and *Hunter, Alberta*.

How do I sort by artist name on I tunes

how do I sort by artist name on I tunes

Sorry Chris - that doesn't work unless you want the albums all listed. What I found was so simple. In the view catagoryclick on "Show View Options" That brings up a whole table of things. At the top it says sort by and if you click on the arrow it brings up however you want it sorted - in my case by artist instead of by song.
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I have a lot of albums that contain various artist and i set up the info in each with the correct artist name and "various artist" as the album artist. In itunes 8 when i use grid view and use show by artist it displays by album artist putting all the albums by "various artist" in one grid. It's correct in list and cover flow view. How can i set the grid view to display by the artist of the song and not the album. (ex. Soundtrack from the motion picture Tropic Thunder: Display "U Can't Touch This" under MC Hammer instead of Various Artist)

Actually, the grid view should be using the Album Artist tag. When the Album Artist tag was added in iTunes 7.0, the intent was to allow users to properly tag songs based on the artist and any guest artists. For instance, on Luther Vandross’ album +Give Me The Reason+ Track 6, “There’s Nothing Better Than Love” is a duet. Therefore, while the Artist tag for the rest of the tracks should be ‘Luther Vandross’, the correct tag content for Track 6 is ‘Luther Vandross duet with Greory Hines’. Without having ‘Luther Vandross’ in all the Album Artist tags for all 9 album tracks, iTunes would split the album as if there are two albums of the same name by different artists.
The other situation are producer-driven albums like Quincy Jones’ +The Dude+ or +Back On The Block+ . These are not compilations, as you described, because the songs were produced for the albums and Quincy Jones, although not a performer on any of the tracks, is the album artist. The exception is soundtracks that are compilations of songs typically produced for a given film. Like the situation you describe, each track has a different artist, so by having ‘Quincy Jones’ in the Album Artist tag for each track, iTunes maintains the integrity of the album and keeps the tracks properly grouped.
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The situation you are specifically referencing is that of tagging compilations—albums that consist of tracks by various artists where there is no actual album artist—but you have used the Album Artist tag effectively forcing iTunes to see them as single artist albums. I also tag compilations—e.g., Various Artists (Hip Hop), Various Artists (Jazz), Various Artists (R&B), Various Artists (Soundtrack), etc.—, so I understand what you have done. Unfortunately, the fix for forcing the grid view to recognize individual artists in compilations may require you to clear out the Album Artist tag on all of your compilation album tracks forcing iTunes to revert to the Artist tag in place of the Album Artist tag.
What I would suggest is clearing the Album Artist tag of just one compilation and seeing what happens. If the album appears under “Unknown Artist”, or some other generic listing, in the grid view then iTunes only recognizes the Album Artist tag and I am at a loss as to what you could do. If it works as you hope, then you can go ahead an clear out the Album Artist field on the rest of your compilation albums.
The downside of clearing the Album Artist field is that iTunes will revert to its pre-version 7 habits and break up the albums; that is, a compilation with 12 tracks by 12 different artists will appear in the various views as 12 different albums albeit with the same name and cover art. To keep the tracks properly grouped in other views, you will need to mark all of the tracks from the compilation albums as “Part of a compilation” in the info dialog.

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to
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The thing is the I don't specifically remember hearing this in class and it doesn't appear in my book unless it goes by some other name.
I'm dealing with a multi class program if that has any relevance.
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Edited by: myol on May 31, 2008 4:23 PM

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Hi All
Searched but cannot find a solution to this.
Now I've got iTunes 12, I noticed that when I added a new album titled "Triple J Like A Version 10", it sorts this album at the beginning of the sequential list of albums. i.e.:
Triple J Like A Version
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Problems by combinate JSF-Names with JavaScript (de.dev.user)

Hello again.
I have i new problem.
Overview:
1. Situation
2. Working code
3. Problem (reason for new idea)
4. New Idea
5. Problem (please help me !!)
[1]
The situation. I have one inputText and one selectOneMenu.
They are logicly combinated. Of this pair i have two.
If the user enters a errorcode in the inputText-field, the matching entry of the selectOneMenu have to be selected.
If the user select a entry of the selectOneMenu, the code have to be shown in the inputText.
Example:
inputText1 <-> selectOneMenu1
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[2]
For the moment i have realised this code (it works !!):
details.jsp:
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<h:selectOneMenu binding="#{CbtdDetailsBean.hsomErrorCode1}" id="hsomErrorCode1" valueChangeListener="#{CbtdDetailsBean.hsomErrorCode1ValueChange}" onchange="submit()" >
<f:selectItems binding="#{CbtdDetailsBean.uisiErrorCode1}" id="uisiErrorCode1" />
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<h:outputText value="#{lgs.txtErrorCode}" />
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errorCodeList.add(new SelectItem("4", "TestErrorCode4"));
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public void itxtErrorCode1ValueChange(ValueChangeEvent vce)
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private HtmlInputText itxtErrorCode1 = new HtmlInputText();
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[3]
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If the user changes the itxtErrorCode1-field, the hsomErrorCode1 will be updated by reload, but the hsomErrorCode1 also updates the itxtErrorCode1-field with the old value.
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[4]
My new idea, where i need your help:
I think about a second way to update this fields. JavaScript !!
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The sourcecode i would like to user for this is implemented in the jsp-file:
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[5]
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<select id="body:frmDeviceDetails:hsomErrorCode1" name="body:frmDeviceDetails:hsomErrorCode1" ... >
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This Ideas does not work:
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document.body:frmDeviceDetails:hsomErrorCode1
document.body.frmDeviceDetails.hsomErrorCode1
document.body.frmDeviceDetails.body.frmDeviceDetails.hsomErrorCode1
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Any Ideas?
p.s. please excuse my english, but i am from germany smile

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maybe one of us can help me.
I using Itunes 7.6 and wanna, that in the name of artist:
first Figures
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how can do this, prefer step-by-step

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