Obviously I know how to get songs into alphabetical order but the problem is it is IT version of alphabetical order in that songs that begin with A or The get placed according to the first letter of the second word.
E.G. "A Mother For My Children" comes under M
"The Charge" comes under C
Anybody know a way round this?
So first, in the Songs view, right click on the column name area somewhere (eg. between where it says name and the little cloud icon). You'll get a drop down list of columns you can add - click 'sort artist' and that will appear as an extra column as below.
Next, you can see the sort artist listing for The Bluetones on mine is listed just Bluetones, so click the first song in the list to highlight it and then shift click the last in the list so they are all highlighted (you can sort by 'Sort Artist first to get them all together). Right click and choose 'get info' - you may get a warning asking if you want to edit multiple items - you can tick don't ask me again and click 'edit items'.
Next, click on 'Sorting' at the top and you'll see the Artist name listed with a 'The' and the 'sort as' name without it. Just copy the artist name and paste it over the sort as name (or type The in front of it!), click ok and you're done. (You can do the album artist sort as at the same time if you want)
Bit of a pain to do it for every artist, but not bad if you don't have too many you need to change.