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Here's a nice feature in iTunes 7.0 -- click on the Album column to sort by album (as you would expect), then click again to sort by 'Album by Artist' and again for 'Album by Year.' Definitely a nice sorting option for those like me who like to play whole albums at a time, but want to keep artists together.
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Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
Wow, thanks for mentioning that... iTunes is now officially perfect.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
I just tried this out, and I noticed something interesting: under Sort by Album and Year, iTunes disregards the year as set on the file itself.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
It must have retrieved this info when checking for album art. Very cool - however, it's not very reliable. For many albums it is the original release date, for others a re-release date. For some of my Grateful Dead, it is the performance date...
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
I can't make any sense out of the Album by Year.. The date column shows no such sorting at all.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
"Album" seems to sort by the album name,
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
Could be. But where does it get the album date from?
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
"Album by Year" is kind of misleading. It's actually sorted by Artist first, Year second, so you get all Bob Dylan albums in chronological order before you get, say, all of Fats Waller's albums in chronological order.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
Is this broken for anyone else? When I sort my New Order albums by "Album by Year" I get one from 1995, then 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, and finally 2003. If I sort by just Year though, it works fine. What gives? Is it getting these dates from somewhere other than the ID3 tags?
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
How is this different than just clicking on artist? I don't get it.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
If you click on Artist, it's sorted first alphabetically by artist, then alphabetically by album.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
The difference is that with "album by artist," compilation albums stick together, rather than having them split up by artist (when ordered by artist).
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
Great feature and great Hint!
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
I sort my library by Genre... it looks like even if I click the Artist column a couple times to change it to "Album by Year," if I then click the Genre column, it no longer sorts the albums any differently than it used to. This new feature becomes useless, for no good reason!
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
I have wanted this feauture for some time, but it's a tremendous UI mistake.
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
Agree...
Sort by album and artist or year in iTunes 7
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