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When I select Get Information for a song, there is a tag called "sorting". When I select it, the tags are there, but the information in the "sort as" data is greyed out? What is that?
I was told to use "sort artist" and "sort album artist" to help clean up my iTunes library. Do I need to go into every song and add the sort album artist information?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
The sort fields let you override the default sort position of selected items by putting in a different value. The app will auto generate sort values for any that have a leading article (a/an/the) so The Beatles becomes Beatles in any of the sort fields, and sorts under B rather than T. You can, if you choose, add a sort value of Dylan, Bob to every Bob Dylan track so he gets sorted under D, but that might be a rather large exercise if carried out across your whole library for every artist. You should be consistent, i.e. you should add your custom sort value to all instances of the primary value. In my library I've fixed all classical composers so they're sorted by surname, and all my items with numbers so they are in numeric order by padding out with leading zeros.
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The sort fields let you override the default sort position of selected items by putting in a different value. The app will auto generate sort values for any that have a leading article (a/an/the) so The Beatles becomes Beatles in any of the sort fields, and sorts under B rather than T. You can, if you choose, add a sort value of Dylan, Bob to every Bob Dylan track so he gets sorted under D, but that might be a rather large exercise if carried out across your whole library for every artist. You should be consistent, i.e. you should add your custom sort value to all instances of the primary value. In my library I've fixed all classical composers so they're sorted by surname, and all my items with numbers so they are in numeric order by padding out with leading zeros.
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Thank you. My question was about the greying out of the sort as field? I changed some of the information and it became black and a green check mark appeared? Not sure if I am using this function fully.
Auto generated values may be shown greyed out. The green tick shows whenever you change something. You can untick to leave that value alone if you change your mind.
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Thank you for the great answer
You're welcome. 🙂
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What is the "sorting" tab in the song information ?
