12.7.2 upgrade rearranged my audiobooks sort order

Thank you, turingtest2 for your helpful suggestions. I, like Akk1, have a large collection of audiobooks on a NAS making your initial suggestion a rather tedious process. It would mean going through each author (>500 of them), putting each series into separate folders where there is more than one, then each book within that series into a separate folder as most of my books are multi-file. Then after that, re-linking each book within iTunes. I can see myself getting very tired and frustrated by the process. I think your suggestion quite workable for small collections (where one is just starting, for example), but for large collections (especially where one has already put in the work that "someone" in Apple has deemed no longer needed) it becomes a daunting issue.

Consequently, I have taken your 2nd advice and given my feedback to the iTunes development team. I wasn't aware of this facility, so thank you for your advice here. I'm also considering reverting back to v12.7.1, if I can find a way of doing this without losing my current library.

Paul.

I'm sorry, turingtest2, that I haven't responded earlier - I've had another PC in our household crash and have been rebuilding it.

Yes, I'm aware that the Authors view is a way of getting part way there. The problem is, book titles in a series often don't fall in the same order as their sequence number, e.g. Lord of the Rings series has Fellowship of the Ring, followed by Two Towers, followed by Return of the King. If you add in, Hobbit, then it splits the series. I have put a lot of effort into naming the album field so that these titles lie together, and in proper order. As I have several hundred books, the majority of which are in some series, then re-titling becomes a very unwelcome (and, frankly, unnecessary and illogical) task. Surely, it is the album name that should reflect the series, not the book's title.

I'm hoping v 12.7.3 will fix this very irksome mistake.

Paul.

It seems that v12.7.3 has restored the Title field sort order. All is well again. Thank you, iTunes development team, but it would have been a lot more polite not to have included this in the previous update.

cplloyd42

Sorting by title only suits me just nicely. As I indicated in my original posting, I have built into the title field all that I need to order my books. My title field contains: "<author surname><author initials><series name><book series number><book title>" which organizes my books the way I want them.

Obviously, others may have a different situation and need the additional field(s). So ... over to the iTunes development team.

cplloyd42