Album Sorting via specific title

Roon Software Discussion
1

Is it possible to provide an AlbumSort title?

I have a series of albums where some are titled by year, others have a volume number and I’d like to add a sort title so they appear together.

With previous systems I did this via an AlbumSort tag, but Roon appears to not recognise this. Am I missing something?

2

Have you tried main Roon drop down menu (upper left hand corner) → My Library → Albums

This will bring up the “My Albums” view of your library. Once there click on the “sort by” drop down menu (located next to the Filter horn on the right side of the screen) and select “Album Title”. You should see all the albums (aka recordings) sorted by title. Depending on where (at the beginning or end of the actual album title) you placed the year or volume number this should be helpful.

Please forgive me if you have tried all of this already. Perhaps I misunderstood what it is that you’re asking.

3

Thanks for your response but not what I was wanting.

To give a specific example… I have:

  1. Radio 1’s Live Lounge
  2. Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Volume 2 and
  3. BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2014

Currently (3) comes first in an alphabetical list, but I want them in the logical order. With my old UPnP setup (and Apple Music) I had ALBUMSORT tags as follows…

  1. Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2006
  2. Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2007
  3. Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2014

Is there an equivalent to ALBUMSORT in Roon?

(Loving Roon, I had it for a year a few years back but financially it was a struggle but ARC has particularly made me come back and finances as less stretched now)

4

Sorry but I don’t know the answer but hopefully a few other Roon users will soon chime in with a workable solution.

5

One way is to simply edit the album title. For instance, I had to edit some called “4 Tops” to “Four Tops” to get them together with some others.

6

Roon uses sort order, and this is set under Settings > General, e.g., “Name for artist sorting”. However, this isn’t available for title, and even if it did, that wouldn’t help here since you are using different release titles in each field.

The simplest solution is to correctly name the releases.

7

Technically speaking they are “correctly” named.

I just want the albums INcorrectly sorted!

It’s not a deal breaker just would be useful (even iTunes can do it :slight_smile:)