iTunes 11 [Songs view] - Sort on artist, then year

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing. Just downloaded iTunes 11 and now I can't sort albums by year in the "Artists" view. I used to prefix all my album mp3 tag names with the year number to work around this, but removed it when Apple added the Artist/Year sort. Now it's gone. Yay!

A note: you can use the free mp3tag.de software to insert your year tag into your album titles using regular expressions. If there doesn't seem to be any obvious solution to sorting by Artist/Album/Year in the next couple days, then I'll post here with some tips if anyone is interested.

Dude: never mind. The View menu bar is hidden by default. (I'm in Windows). You have to click on the tiny icon in the upper left and select "Show Menu Bar". Then there will be a View dropdown in the menu bar that has sort options under "View Options...".

I don't understand the point of hiding menu bars by default. Lots of applications do it now. It's like a big middle finger to everyone sane on earth. Anyway. Sorting by year is there...

NBB

As far as I can see, though, that doesn't actually allow you to replicate the sorting from iTunes 10 in songs view... you can add a column for the year and sort totally by that, but you can't sort by artist then album year. I liked the new view they added last year- sorting by album artist & year without having to add columns for that.

You can do it from the album or artist view, though.

Been wondering this same thing since the update, finally figured it out. Click on Album to sort the songs, until it changes to saying 'Album by Artist/Year'

Should go Album > Album by Artist > Album by Artist/Year

I'm a little late to this party, but it appears they did add back the album art option--go to the View > Show View Options menu, and there is now a checkbox for "Show Artwork." Many thanks to Bloodglas for the fix on sorting by year!!!

Sadly, with OSX and iTunes 11 when using the Song View, one CANNOT sort by Artist, then Year. It only has one sort by parameter. When sort by Srtist is selected it then secondarily sorts alphabetically by album name. Yes I know you can View by Album andhen sort by year, but then none of the other columns are available.This is exactly why I did not want to update to iTunes 11, but the iOS 7 update forced me to. The previous version of iTune allowed this sorting. If anyone from Apple happens to stumble on this thread, please bring this option back.

Pfranzosa,

The same sort works for Mac OSX and iTunes 11
Click the album bar at the top of the column so sort Alphabetically by A, then again for Z, then again for Album by artist, then lastly again for album by artist, year

Thanks all for helping with this. It has been bugging me for a while. So happy to have it back the 'good' way

I was having the same problem, but here is the fix for a Mac:

> Go up to the "View" tab on the top of the screen

>Under the "View" tab select "Show View Options"(Command + J)

> From there you can edit how you would like iTunes to organize your *SONGS* tab of the iTunes Library from the pull-down tab(It will say "Sort By:") at the top of the window that appears

On the iTunes page when you have the lists open go to the top right corner and click on whatever word is there Album, artist etc. Then you can change the option to MUSIC and that will do it. Unfortunately you have to do it for each library you've created.