List Albums by Year (IPOD)

biffster · Post by **biffster** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:56 pm

If I browse an album on my IPOD, the tracks are not listed in alphabetical order but rather listed by track# (id3 tag).

However, if I browse an artist, the albums are listed in alphabetical order... I would like them to be listed by year (id3 tag).

I could prefix the year onto the name of my albums... but I'd prefer not to.

Any suggestions?

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:07 am

Thats really just a limitation of the iPod, not much MM can do about that. Probably your only choice would be to put the year in front of the album names.

biffster · Post by **biffster** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:01 am

i figured there might have been a sorting option somewhere in iTunesDB (god damn stupid proprietary formats)...

does anyone here know if the same problem exists when using iTunes?

gregmasciola · Post by **gregmasciola** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:14 am

biffster wrote:does anyone here know if the same problem exists when using iTunes?

iTunes actually has a nice sorting feature; for each track, next to the name of the album, artist, and song title, there are tags called "Sort Artist", "Sort Album", and "Sort Name". I use this feature to keep albums sorted in chronological order. Under "Sort Album", I type <Artist> - <Year> - <Album>. Sometimes you have to close iTunes and reopen it to see the albums sorted.

biffster · Post by **biffster** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:40 am

Ahh, just as I suspected... thanks for the info.

So the option to sort albums is in iTunesDB... but MM doesn't take advantage of it.

Considering MM is closed-source, I don't like our chances of getting this fixed/implemented.... although perhaps if there are enough other iPod users who would like this feature we could appeal to the devs...

Is there like a feature request list or something?

biffster · Post by **biffster** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:43 am

nvm found the 'wish list'...