Putting Albums in chronological order?

I was wondering if there was a way to get iTunes to put the albums of the artists in chronological order, rather than alphabitical order. The way I like to have my CDs arranged in my CD case is alphabetically by artists, and if the artisits has more than one album, I want those in the order that they were released, and I just can't seem to find a way to do with with my music on iTunes. Suggestions?

Like you and PT, I also have my (physical) CDs sorted by artist and the albums in chronological order.
iTunes can only set to sort on one column, but sometimes sorting is done on multiple criteria, so iTunes is capable of sorting on multiple columns.
If you sort on artist or album and have tagged the tracks with track and disc numbers, iTunes will also sort on these criteria.
Unfortunately sorting on multiple columns by the user, is not implemented.
Send your feedback (as a feature request), using the form on this page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
Don't use the iTunes Feedback. That link directs to the music request page.
M
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Display artists in alphabetical order and albums in chronological order.

I have my iTunes library set to display artists in alphabetical order and albums in chronological order. This is the sorting option preferred by every person I've ever spoken to about it. The touble is nobody I've ever spoken to can tell me how to get my device (4S64, 5.1.1) to follow suit. iTunes on my phone insists on listing albums alphabetically. Since I (we) already know all the letters of the alphabet and in which order they occur this kind of sorting is of no benefit. Somebody please put me (us) out of our misery and reveal whichever secret soft switch must be flipped to make this happen. Also, if possible, I would rather do the alphabetical "Artist" sorting by last name rather than first but I have not seen an option for that either.
Thank you in advance.

There is no secret soft switch for Album by Artist by Year on iOS.
If you want your artists sorted by last name first then edit the corresponding sort values.
tt2

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I've downloaded a cd directly into my iPad mini..
The question is how can I put it in chronological order..
1234,etc.. thank u

Since tracks on an album are generally released at the same time, there is no "chronological order", so I will assume you mean track order. Nor can you directly add a CD's contents to an iPad (it must be ripped to itunes on a computer first). If the track order is properly assigned in itunes it show up in correct order in the Music app on the iPad, so that would be the first thing to check (each track should be as 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 3 of 10, for example). If not tagged properly, you will need to delete them from the iPad and then resync once the tagging is corrected.

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I'm having an issue where I can't get the artists albums in chronological order. I have all the artist in alphabetical order but now I want their albums in year order. It looks like the albums are in alphabetical order. To give you an example...AC/DC is first...Back in Black (1980) is before High Voltage (1976). I know it probably sounds petty but it drives me crazy that its not in the correct order! lol... I did a search and couldn't find my answer thats why I'm posting. Thanks in advance.

Anders Dahl wrote:
What if an artist releases two albums in the same year.
Is there a way to force iTunes to follow true chronologic order?
iTunes only references the year of release for songs, not the month and day, so if an artist has two albums in the same year, they will be sorted alphabetically. You could change the year of one of them to force it to show up in the order you want. Not a perfect solution, but just an idea.

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How do you arrange the albums in chronological order in iPhoto ? Madde 47

What do you mean your own albums that are in alphabetically order?
How did you do that?
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Is it possible to display artist's albums in chronological order instead of alphabetical?

Afternoon rockmyplimsoul, thank you for the info on changing the sorting order - one question though how do you do this on the iPod ?
Even if your artists are sorted in the library in chronological order by release date, which is cool, when its transferred to the iPod it still gets sorted in alphabetical order. This is frustrating as I like to listen to one artist's music in order of release date, which I cant because its in alphabetical order.
Can you assist please.
Thank you
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Putting tracks into chronological order

I've got approx 14,000 tracks in my iTunes library over a few hundred albums. The tracks on most albums are in chronological order; 1, 2, 3, 4 etc, but some aren't 4, 1, 5 ,6 , 10, 9 etc..., how do I put these tracks into chronological order?
Thanks in advance, Simon.

Since tracks on an album are generally released at the same time, there is no "chronological order", so I will assume you mean track order. Nor can you directly add a CD's contents to an iPad (it must be ripped to itunes on a computer first). If the track order is properly assigned in itunes it show up in correct order in the Music app on the iPad, so that would be the first thing to check (each track should be as 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 3 of 10, for example). If not tagged properly, you will need to delete them from the iPad and then resync once the tagging is corrected.

Display Albums in Chronological Order in iPod

Hi,
I was wondering why albums appear in alphabetical order by deafault in iPod and there's no way to organize them by year to display them in chronological order.
Perhaps there is a way to do so and I haven't figured it out yet (besides adding the year to the album name, i.e. naming 'A Hard Day's Night' -> '1964 A Hard Day's Night')?
Is there another way to bypass or alter iPod's method of organizing album lists?
I know there have been several discussions on the subject already but I haven't found any solution yet and I'm sure others are looking for one as well.
Thanks in advance,
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yeah well thanks for your dismissive reply
but I don't agree -
when you initially browse by "Artist" on the iPod,
then 'drill down', you are presented with a list of that
Artist's albums.
Maybe I'm an anal aspergerated mentalist, but on my shelves
at home, I generally have my CDs in alphabetical order
by artist, and then within that, in release order.
It's logical and what I'm used to seeing.
When I go into my Kraftwerk stash on the iPod,
I don't wanna see "AUTOBAHN" first in the list cos it begins
with "A", I wanna see Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk 2, Ralf und Florian, then Autobahn [substitute your own favourite artists here]
Moreover, never mind what I think, iTunes also thinks it's a useful way to display things,
since it already lets you do that - so why can't the iPod
do it too? it's all in the metadata...

Re-sorting albums in chronological order?

I used to have all my iPhoto '09 albums organized in chronological order, I just added a new one to the bottom every month or so.
Unfortunately, I did something and now they're all in alphabetical order:
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April 2009
August 2008
August 2009
You get the idea.
How can I re-sort them into chronological order?

do it manually
or
rename them so the alpha sort works
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2009-08-21
2009-07-04
etc
There is no date sort - on alpha and it can not be undone
Suggest to Apple -- iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
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Albums in chronological order?

Is there any way to get your albums in iTunes to go in chronological order instead of alphabetical (and also to get my iPod to sync this way?) Right now I have the album tags set so that it has the year before the album name (ie
"{2003} Interventions And Lullabies" and "{2006} Dog Problems") and it really is getting on my nerves. Any way I can fix this? Thanks

It won't sync that way... I too thought of retagging all my albums, or using sort fields, but I still want them to come up in alphabetical order when I choose Album on my iPod.
What I want is to be go Artists-> Album -> Chronologically sorted albums by artist (there are few enough of these that I can figure out alphabetical order myself if i so choose)...
Anyone hear anything to do this?

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Hello again:
How can I line up my albums A-Z?
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Album Art in Chronological order

Ok so I finally got a Lion OS (whilst kicking and screaming) and thus involuntarily downgraded to iTunes 11. It looks nice but the more I use it the more I realize how impossible it is to customize or at least have a similar organization to my iTunes 10.
One thing I can't seem to do at all that is driving me nuts is I'd like to click on a playlist or an artist and see the albums and cover art in chronological order. List view is the closest it gets, my playlist is in the same order, but there isn't a way to view the album art anymore -- it should be a category at the top that can be added -- but it's not. Grid view looks nice but Apple decided I needed to always view these in alphabetical order -- no compromises -- not sure who decided that but they should not be on the UX team for iTunes anymore. Artist view is really annoying -- doesn't show details, breaks the tracklisting to two columns...
Seriously. All I want is to view my albums with a picture in the order I put them in.

Well, it's also more difficult to search this forum than it used to be. I couldnt find anything while searching, but this result poped up at the top of "More Like This" after I posted.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20844035#20844035

How can I re-sort my albums both chronologically and in track order?

Hi all,
All of a sudden, the correct album track order on my iPod Classic has gone haywire!
I have many, many playlists, containing albums by all my favourite bands, arranged in chronological order. This means that I can start playing the Beatles (for instance) with "Please Please Me", and work my way through to "Let It Be:Naked", playing each album in its turn, with the track listing of each album in their original order.
Of course, I have to tell iTunes to sort "Album by Artist/Year" to achieve this end, and up until just recently, things have been fine. Most of my 250+ artist-dedicated playlists are sorted this way.
Now, all of a sudden, I find that the track order within these albums in iTunes are appearing in a completely random order. The only way I can get the correct track sequence back again is to re-sort the list by "Album" which re-arranges the albums alphabetically, but that does not list them chronologically....
I have tried re-sorting the chronologically dated and named albums by clicking the column header, and when it comes up with sorted by "Album by Artist / Year" (which is where it ONCE was all automatically sorted into correct sequence of track numbers) now, it comes up with all the album tracks in random order, within each album.. It sorts the albums into the correct chronological order, but the tracks within these albums are all messed up.
As I said earlier, if I choose to sort each playlist simply "By Album", then all the tracks on each album are in the correct order, so I KNOW that the correct ID Tag info is still there..
Until now, I have been able to pride myself on (usually) being able to manage the sometimes quirky moods of iTunes, which I have been using for over a decade - but I have never had this problem before.
Please also note that all my 23,000+ tracks have album dates, track numbers, artists, groupings, genres, play counts, and most also have cover images.
This week, I have downloaded and re-installed iTunes 10.6.3.25, but still no change.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what I can do to get things back the way they were again?
Many thanks,
Rusty Shay

Hello there,
Hi there Chris CA,
Many thanks for your reply.
I just tried using the column browser as you suggested, but it remains the same.
I can either have the albums by any one artist sorted alphabetically - with the tracks in the correct sequence....
Or I can have the albums sorted by year of release - with the tracks in random order....
But not both!
The most curious thing is that all playlists are not affected. Probably three or four out of the 250+ are listed the way I want them all to be.
It's driving me bloody crazy!

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I don't have iPhoto on my iPad, so I can't help with that, but you must have looked at advice for a Mac computer? Maybe browse the iPhoto for iOS forum?
https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iphoto_for_ios?view=discussion s

Organising Albums by artists in chronological order?

Hello, i have the Ipod 60gb model, and for some reason when i go into artists and look at the albums, they are listed in alphabetical order rather than chronological order. This is really annoying, and i don't know how to change it so that my albums appear on the ipod in chronological order, because they do on my itune on the computer?!
Anybody got any ideas?
Cheers
Ollie

I'm fairly sure that you cannot change the sort order of albums within the Artist list on the iPod. It will only sort alphabetically. Probably, the reason that iTunes is displaying your albums chronologically is because you have selected iTunes to display *Album by Year*.
This is achieved by repeatedly clicking on the *Album by Year* column (in iTunes version 7.6.1.9). The sort order will change as follows:
*Album by Year*;
*Album name* (A-Z - then numbers);
*Album by Artist*
Once you select Album by Year, if you then click on the arrow (in that column's header) the order is reversed. Perhaps this is how you have your iTunes set up.
If you want iTunes and the iPod to be the same, click on the *Album by Year* column iTunes until you have Album and the up arrow.
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