Hello everyone. I’m having trouble with the alphabetical sorting. Everything works fine, except for one album: “Disharmonium - Nahab” by Blut aus Nord. While the digital file version is in the correct location, the Qobuz version consistently remains at the top of the list, and I don’t know why.
Check there isn’t a space before the first letter “D” in the album title . It looks that way the first few start with … then brackets
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Thanks.
I have check this, but there is no space before the first letter.
then is the first letter a “normal” D , the first letter seems to be sorting ok from there on. I assume it’s in German ?
Replace the first letter with a regular D from your keyboard . Maybe it’s ASCII code is < ASC(a) it is odd
I tried it with this album and see the same problem. There is indeed no space and the D seems fine. Must be some Cthulhu characters.
Even if I go to the album editor and click the copy button for the album title, next to the Edit field, the problem still occurs although the copied text looks normal (though I did not check the character codes with a hex editor).
However, it is fixed if you don’t copy but simply type the entire title into the edit field.
That’s really strange. When I manually edit the title, the album ranks correctly. However, if I let Roon manage the title, it always reverts to the top of the list.
Roon is picking up an odd character then . The sort looks to be alphabetic but is actual ASCII . Every letter has an numeric ASCII code based on this table the alphabetic sort is in fact a numeric sort
so in you case the “period” . comes first then the Left Bracket and so on
the first 2 rows are hidden characters . So capital D should come after . and ( etc as i does
Your D in the offending album is odd which is why I suggested a space as it coms before everything. My best guess is that there is one of the hidden ASCII codes before the D causing the ASCII to be lower than the period ie ASCII(
I would edit the title to a standard D and get on with life 
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Thanks for the replies anyway. It’s true that it’s not a disaster, and editing the title fixes everything. But this behavior seemed really strange to me.