iTunes 11: Sorting albums by year

Question

Is there a way of sorting albums for an artist by year in iTunes?

For example: "Coda" is actually Led Zeppelin's last album, but it appears first for me in iTunes. I'd prefer it if it sorted albums by Year, so "Led Zeppelin" was at the top, followed by "Led Zeppelin II", and so on (and "Coda" was at the bottom).

Is this possible?

Answer 1

I've just found the answer! It's kind of hidden away, but it is possible:

Select "Show Menu Bar"...

Then under View select "View Options..."

A new window with View Options appears!

Answer 2

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You can always use the keyboard shortcut "Cmd+J" to open the "View Options" window where you can select sorting mode.

Answer 3

You can change the Sort Album field in the Options tab of the song info. I once found a script that would change all the sort album fields to year and album name, and in some cases (the Beatles for example) I changed it to yyyy.mm.dd album name because they released multiple albums per year.

This should be the default sorting for all music players, I REALLY don't know why it isn't.

Answer 4

I simply enter the release date in the field Album Sorting in the format YYYYMMDD ie 20121224 and make sure that I sort by Artist - Year. Everything is sorted nicely :)