Basically I own a LOT of albums of happy hardcore/trance that have releases up to 20 releases, but the thing is it organizes like
Happy Hardcore 1
Happy Hardcore 10
Happy Hardcore 11
Happy Hardcore 2
I want to organize by (That would fix this entirely)
Title -> Year
But it doesn't let me! It just greys out the options when I select Titles for the first one.
What should I do?
iTunes-OTHER, iOS 6.1.3
Change the Sort Album values of the first 9 albums to:
Happy Hardcore 01
Happy Hardcore 02
...
Happy Hardcore 09
Use more leading digits if working with a series that has got to 100.
tt2
Thanks 🙂
But Im curious, why can't I organize by Title then Year?
It may depend on the view you are using. The Songs & Album views should both be capable of sorting as Album, Album by Artist or Album by Artist\Year. Songs is easy as you can do it from the headers. I'm not in front of iTunes at the moment, but I think it can be done with the new View > View Option tool.
tt2
Is there a way to get iTunes to do this in the Media Folder? I don't have that kind of music, and I also don't have many anthologies where this technique would work. I'm talking about an album organization similar to this
Folder Directory:
iTunes Music/[Artist]/[Year] [Album Title]
iTunes Music/Paul McCartney/2013 NEW (Deluxe Edition)
iTunes doesn't have any way to choose your own layout for the media folder. For music it normally uses the format <Media Folder>\Music\<Artist>\<Album>\## <Name>.<Ext> although older libraries might miss out the extra \Music\ layer that is now used. Either way, the physical layout of the folder has no impact on the ordering within the application which is based on tag peroperties, not file paths.
tt2
I understood that. The reason I would like it to sort that way is because I don't use an Apple brand portable music player (iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc.), I use an MP3 player. (Nothing against the apple products, the MP3 Player merely suited my budget a little better.)
On this player, I can access the folder hierarchy for a better-sorted view of my music. This is handy, as (for some reason) the metadata doesn't always save to my MP3's, and therefore miss the search functions of the player.
There are several artists where I have meticulously purchased every one of their albums (a difficult task, since most of the music I listen to was released before I was born, and is difficult to find [non-digitally]), and I enjoy listening to the albums in the order they were released.
Rather than go through and label each album with a number in front of it (or a year), it would be lovely if iTunes could release an update that would labe the folders for me automatically, or release source coding so I could do it myself.
I see. If you're handy with a bit of coding you could tweak my script ConsolidateByMoving to prepend the Year to the folder name it currently sets to Album, or your could experiment with KeywordsToAlbum so that you get the same ordering in iTunes.
-<Album> <Year> <Album>
ought to make the appropriate edit, though test it on a single album to start with.
tt2
How to Organize albums with 10+ releases?
