Music artists sometimes release albums under different aliases or band names, and those can quickly get jumbled together in iTunes. Here’s how to use manual sorting options to restore some order to your iTunes or macOS Music library.
This works whether you’re using iTunes on Windows, iTunes on macOS Mojave or earlier, or Music on macOS Catalina. This guide refers to iTunes, but everything detailed here will work the new Music app in macOS Catalina. The Music app is basically just iTunes without the non-music features, like Movies and TV.
Changing The Sorting Order Of Albums
iTunes’s album view is great. While having new music recommended to you by an algorithm is useful for discovering more content, sometimes you’re more inclined to relax and browse through your music collection. The grid-based album view handles this perfectly.
But there’s one issue with it—by default, it sorts by artist name in alphabetical order, and then by album name in alphabetical order. There isn’t an easy way to change this behavior overall, but you can fix some of the annoyances that this sorting system causes.
For example, it’s relatively common for artists to release albums under different names. Collaborative projects between two artists may adopt a new band name for the duo, which leads to the album being placed far off from either artist in your library. You might want the album to be with the rest of that artist’s music. Other artists, like MF DOOM, may release specific albums under a different name, which screws with your library even more.
To fix this, you can manually change the sorting of an album. This won’t change the title of the album as it appears anywhere in your library, but it will change the title that iTunes sees when sorting the album. This fix will sync to your mobile devices, and will also change the sorting in the Artist view as well.
To change sorting, right-click (Control-click on a Mac) on an album in this view and select “Album Info.” This is where you change the actual album title and artist name, but you don’t have to do that. Click the “Sorting” tab to find the options we want.
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