# (3.22) Not sorting Discogs generated vinyl tracks A1/B1 etc
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 2, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277 "2023-10-02T16:09:25Z")
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### Author:  [@cathcam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cathcam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/1 "2023-10-02T16:09:25Z")
I'm sure this should have worked but this morning when I click on the header "Track" the order of the tracks does not change. Selecting the tracks via Ctrl-A doesn't impact the sort.
After clicking the order indicator above track says it's changed, but it hasn't
Using the VIEW menu, SORT by TITLE works, if I then try SORT by TRACK it is also broken and doesn't sort.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/2 "2023-10-02T16:30:28Z")
If you right-click on the column "Track" -\> then "Customize Columns":
What do you see as content of
**Value:**
**Field:**
and
**Sort by:**
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/3 "2023-10-02T16:32:54Z")
While you check the column definition for Track - have you ticked "Numeric"?
And if so, does toggling that setting help?
And just to complete the information: the field track is supposed to be numeric and only the slash is allowed as non-numeric character ... Taking the standard literally, would mean that track "numbers" with A and B (and so on) are in fact invalid track numbers.
See also here:
> [@Unable to sort by Track colomn](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-sort-by-track-colomn/45912):
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> I have been converting a lot of old records to mp3 and using Discogs for the tagging source. As they were vinyl the tags nearly always are labeled thus; A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 I've just discovered that I can't sort by track order, it basically does not do an alphanumeric sort only a numeric sort. Or am i missing something? As an aside, I find MP3tag very useful and have donated as these things don't happen without support from users. Thanks, Rob
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### Author:  [@cathcam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cathcam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/4 "2023-10-02T17:48:46Z")
Something else must be in place here. Something in the last update must have broken this. I have been having issues with this since @Florian changed the default behavior from numeric to as it was entered on discogs in 2018. It has slowly and inevitably it has gotten harder to use MP3TAGS to tag files ripped from vinyl. [Discogs Track number for Vinyl to MP3 - Support - Mp3tag Community](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-track-number-for-vinyl-to-mp3/41527/7)
I'm not a power MP3TAG user and only end up here when I think somethings broken. I have not changed my PC in a couple of years, chceking the customize columns, it seems that both %track% has been dropped, and Numeric set on somehow during the recent update or via some other issue.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/5 "2023-10-02T18:04:59Z")
And? Does unticking "Numeric" solve the issue?
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### Author:  [@cathcam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cathcam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/6 "2023-10-02T18:23:23Z")
I unchecked Numeric and added in %track% to the sort field, and the expected behavior has returned.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/7 "2023-10-02T18:44:10Z")
> [@cathcam](#):
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> and added in %track% to the sort field
This does not hurt but eventually, it does not improve the sorting.
If you want to keep the numeric sorting, you could do something to transform the alphabetic part into a number.
So if you set
Sort by: `$replace(%track%,A,$ord(A),B,$ord(B),C,$ord(C),D,$ord(D))`
then A01 leads to 6501 as the A has the character code 65.
All files with letters at the front will then appear apart from the plain numbers
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-22-not-sorting-discogs-generated-vinyl-tracks-a1-b1-etc/62277/8 "2023-11-01T18:44:39Z")
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