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I used to put a tilda (~) in front of an album title to get it to move to the top of the alphabetized album list in iTunes browser view. Unfortunately, with the recent upgrade to v 7.3, the program no longer recognizes the tilda (it just ignores it and alphabetizes based upon the following text). Any recommendations as to how to get iTunes to recognize the tilda like it used to, or failing that, what character may I put at the start of an album name to jump it to the top of the alphabetized list?
Thank you!

I get the same thing too.. so what bright spark at Apple didn't consider the impact on users by making this totally unnecessary change?
I have nearly all my playlists (lots) with tildas (~) or hashes (#) at the front of track names to get them to move to the top in an order that works for me personally.. now all my playlists tracks are all over the place which isn't helpful as I use iTunes as a 'jukebox' for stage shows for playback.. this caused a slight chaos on the first night after upgrading as I wasn't aware that this change had been made and now I have a lot of extra work to overcome this problem.. so I guess there may be quite a lot of unhappy/angry people about this change !!
Come on Apple.. put the tilda back to where it should be please and think of the impacts before making such unnecessary changes!!
Thx !
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