- When using Album View, always use "Track #" as a secondary sort. I don't see why you wouldn't always want this since you're looking at things in an album-centric way. I sometimes see albums where their tracks appear out of order, and I have to manually add the "Track #" column and sort by it (and then sort again by my primary sort) to get things to look right.
- When using Album View, and when sorting by Artist, don't consider albums marked "Compilation" (i.e. Various Artists). Instead, continue to group these albums together as complete albums, as if their artist name was "Compilation" (or "Various Artists"). Why? Because the way it is now, compilations get all split up and scattered amongst the other albums as if they were singles. This makes for an annoying, long and mixed up listing.
- When using Album View, for tracks without an album name listed, group these together as if there were a single album. I can't see any point in listing each one of these as if they were a separate album. You usually end up with tracks like this when you've imported songs from somewhere with no meta data. I seem to have a number of these and they make the album view needlessly long.
- When importing tracks into the Music Library (by doing Add to Library... or dropping a folder full of music into the Music Library view), tracks are automatically added to the Recently Added folder. However, when viewing this folder in Album View, the order of the tracks appears to be whatever random order they were found in the file system. Instead, sort them by track number (similar to #1, above).
- When displaying the Recently Added folder and when using Album View, continue to group by album as the primary sort, not the time at which the tracks were imported. This is a variation on #4, above, and can occur when some tracks from one album are imported, then another, then a few more from the first album. When this happens, the Recently Added folder breaks up the albums according to the times tracks were added instead of preserving the album grouping.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Suggestions for iTunes Album View Sorting
Here are some random suggestions for ways that Apple could improve iTunes in the area of Album View sorting. The version I'm currently using is iTunes 7.6:
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