Bugzilla – Bug 2107
Sort order of "Browse Songs"
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
"Browse Songs", which you can get to by navigating to "Browse albums -> all songs", isn't nicely sorted. I think it currently sorts by only song title, but displays "<track number>. <title> by <artist> from <album>". Where there are song titles with the same name (quite likely when displaying all songs on a large music library), it seems random what order the songs are presented in. If they are all tracks on the same album (but unique to that album), they seem to be displayed in descending track order. If the tracks have the same title but from different albums or different artists, there seems to be no logical order (probably order they were scanned?). I would assume the sort order should be song, album, artist, track. Maybe sorting by this would be too slow though - would it be covered by an existing index?
sort is title. as far as I know, there are only single options for sort.
Adding sorting options is a good idea, but not going to make it for 6.2
I too had concern about this behavior. Songs should be sorted by song, album, artist, track. From what I understand, this is how iTunes behaves. It is intuitive to playing a CD collection. My guests and I get confused with the current sort behavior. Suggest that this is fixed in the current release.
There's a fixed sort order as of change 8517 which is album title, disc, tracknum, track title. There's another bug which has a request for more flexible sorting options.