Sort by artists name

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

Have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base and let us know if it brings you any combination of joy and/or satisfaction.

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How do I sort by artist name on I tunes

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Thanks anyway

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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*.

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Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
iTunes doesn't do multi-layered sorts, or rather it does sometimes, but as users we have no control over them. Take, for example, the *Album by Year* view and you'll see that is has sub-ordering on quite a few values. In pseudo-SQL it's something like this:
SELECT * FROM Tracks ORDER BY Sort Album Artist, Year (Of 1st Track of Album), Sort Album, Disc #(Empties Last), Track #(Empties Last)
Where there is no Sort Album Artist value it is infered from Album Artist, Sort Artist or Artist. Where there is no Sort Album it is infered from Album.
When you click to sort on the Year column any previous ordering is discarded. If the tracks are in the wrong order then all you can do is click again to change between an ascending or descening sort.
A quick look at my tracks sorted by Genre suggests as if the result is something like this:
SELECT * FROM Tracks ORDER BY Genre, Sort Artist, Sort Album, Disc #(Empties Last), Track #(Empties Last)
Again, it doesn't matter which columns you click before selecting Genre tere's nothing you can do to get the sort you're after. Personally I'd stick with Album by Artist (which is actually Album by Album Artist) and turn on the Genre in the Column Browser so that you can show all albums in a particular genre in a sensible order.
For general tips on grouping & ordering tracks in iTunes see http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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I am probably missing something easy, but I would appreciate any help you can give. I have downloaded many songs from the internet that were in compilation albums and the artist name on I-tunes shows up as "various artists." I know the correct artist names, but I can't figure out how to change it, so that I can sort by artist name. Tt will let me change the title, but not the artist. help please!
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Read this article, it has some good tips on Artist vs. Album Artist.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
I put "Various Artists" in the *Album Artist* field, and the single artist in the Artist field.

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I'm sure I can do this in itune. How do i do this?
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Hi
i am trying to find out,
as some of my songs' "sort artist" is grey in color (instead of black),
and if the "sort artist" content word is grey in color, it will automatically sort songs with same ARTIST name to have the same "sort artist" name.
EG: if the ARTIST name is The Pussycat Dolls, and the "sort artist" name is Pussycat Dolls (grey in color instead of black), all songs ARTIST name with 'The Pussycat Dolls' will automatically change the "sort artist" name to Pussycat Dolls.
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May I know how to set the "sort artist" name to become grey color so that it will automatically change the "sort artist" name for all ARTIST with the same name?
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When sorting, Itunes ignores "The" of my artist name.
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a-ha
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Ace of Base
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Christina Aguilera
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ect ect ect....
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If you right click on the song and then Get Info. Under the Sorting Tab, is the Sort Artist field different from the Artist field?

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I´m using iTunes 7.0.2 and OS X 1.4.3.

You will want to refer to this article in the Apple Knowledge Base which explains the new sorting rules that have been introduced in recent versions of iTunes.
To workaround it, you will have to make use of the also recently introduced Sorting tab that is described at the bottom of the above-referenced article.
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