Sorting with date added list

****0,
I was wondering if there was a way to sort by Album, but at the same time by Date Added.
Sometimes when I add multiple albums at once into Itunes, they do not load in the correct order and then subsequently modifying the individual files from each album is more difficult to do.
So, anyway to search both Date Added and view the album in order at the same time?
Windows XP

How about creating a smart playlist using the criteria "Date Added" -- or using the existing "Recently Added" smart playlist -- then sort that smart playlist by Album.

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I'm trying to do what I think is a simple function in ITunes. I'd like to sort by "date added" and have the tracks line up sequentially by track number. In other words, when in Itunes, I'd like to have (from top of the library to bottom) my most recent album with tracks 1-10, listed, and then the next recent album and so forth. Almost like a most recent album. You can of course sort by date added, and scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, but then when Ituns plays, you start on the most recent album, it runs through that album, and then is done.
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