iTunes sort by multiple columns? Jan01 '05
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# (2 of 15): Matthom
1 year, 2 months after the fact. (Wed 15 Mar 2006, 6:17 AM CST)
Try sorting by "Album," ascending (A-Z). This seems to "group" the tracks by Album, and then "order" them by Track Number. Give it a shot...
# (3 of 15): Ted Glenwright
1 year, 6 months after the fact. (Sun 23 Jul 2006, 2:40 PM CST)
doesnt work if you’re trying to sort by artist and then highest rated within each artist.
# (4 of 15): Wykah » malcolmspage.blogspot.com
1 year, 8 months after the fact. (Wed 13 Sep 2006, 4:01 PM CST)
I’ve managed to trick it so it does what I want.
If you order by album title as you’re doing.
Then add the date modified column to the list of viewed columns and order by that.
If you then go through each track and remove the final character, it will jump to the bottom of the list. You can then put the character back in before jumping to the next track and doing the same thing.
You can then sort by date modified to sort by album and then track.
# (5 of 15): John
2 years after the fact. (Sat 06 Jan 2007, 1:28 PM CST)
I finally figured this out, and man does it display dumb programming of iTunes:
If you have albums sorted in reverse (I had done this accidentally), then tracks will also be sorted in reverse. So, just check that you didn't sort albums in reverse order.
# (6 of 15): David
2 years, 1 month after the fact. (Sat 03 Feb 2007, 12:20 PM CST)
Here is THE answer. If you wish to sort by album and have the track also in order, do the following.
- Sort by album (by clicking on title)
- Sort by track number
- Sort again by album.
Done!
# (7 of 15): Jeeves
2 years, 1 month after the fact. (Sat 24 Feb 2007, 10:46 PM CST)
Worked like a charm David. Many thanks.
# (8 of 15): Pugrallye
2 years, 6 months after the fact. (Mon 09 Jul 2007, 2:56 AM CST)
I tried the solution above and it didn't work for me.
It turned out that several of the tracks had an "Album Artist" set and some didn't. This was causing the problem.
The fix was to select all tracks for the album and enter some random text for all track's Album Artist info, save the changes. Then reset Album Artist for all tracks to blank.
The apply the fix mentioned previously and it sorted them fine...
# (9 of 15): Scott
2 years, 6 months after the fact. (Wed 11 Jul 2007, 12:59 PM CST)
You can sort by multiple criteria by starting with the "deepest" criterion and working outward to the most basic.
For example, start with Track Number, then Album, Artist (, Genre) ?
Which sorts Artists then Albums w/i artists and finally by tracks.
# (10 of 15): Shawn
2 years, 7 months after the fact. (Tue 07 Aug 2007, 9:43 AM CST)
I had the same problem where all but 2 tracks were in order and they always stayed out of order. I just discovered that the year and disk X of X were missing on just those two. Look for missing info and make srue that all tracks for a disk have the same data filled in. After the changes, all is well.
# (11 of 15): Terry Perless
3 years, 1 month after the fact. (Sun 24 Feb 2008, 3:12 PM CST)
This works great except if you want to sort one of the columns by date added. It seems like in the "date" added column, it also includes minutes (and seconds) so if you added tracks in the wrong order, you can't get them back. Seems like date added should be by date, rather than actual file time stamp.
# (12 of 15): Justin
3 years, 2 months after the fact. (Thu 20 Mar 2008, 2:13 AM CST)
Clearing the extraneous data fixed my playlist order issues. I suspect iTunes is sorting on hidden fields the user doesn't consider. I suggest you remove all the tag info you don't care about - if its still around you might try mp3tagtools or something similar.
# (13 of 15): Mike Morgan
3 years, 3 months after the fact. (Thu 10 Apr 2008, 7:38 PM CST)
Ok I figured out a way as well. My Album " Face Value was all scrabled up in the track order. So I ended up trying he sort order trick Dave from above came up with. Sort by artist then sort by album then by artist again. When I looked at my list some were in order and some weren't the ones that eren't all were missing the " Disc Number " info. I set them all for 1 of 1 and everything sorted fine after that.
# (14 of 15): Ricardo
3 years, 4 months after the fact. (Sat 03 May 2008, 11:34 AM CST)
I had the same problem but it was something else ... Some tracks had info on the tags "Disc number x of x" that orders them by disc then by track number
# (15 of 15): Beth
3 years, 5 months after the fact. (Fri 13 Jun 2008, 9:44 AM CST)
When downloading an entire album, why doesn't iTunes download it in order? Now, if I want to keep my music in date added order, my album is entirely the wrong order. Is there a way to fix that, like to fix the date added time on the file? I just looked, and I couldn't figure it out.
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# (1 of 15): Pete » skeeter.multiply.com
1 year, 2 months after the fact. (Wed 15 Mar 2006, 12:05 AM CST)
I’m having this same problem. Did you figure it out? I don’t know why when I sort by album, the tracks are out of order....