# Customize columns also changes sorting column
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [August 22, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691 "2024-08-22T12:12:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@yorickausyps](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yorickausyps)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/1 "2024-08-22T12:12:29Z")
Using the menu 'view -\> customize columns' to change the visibility of an arbitrary column of the file list also changes the column by which the file list is sorted to the preceeding column at the left. If for example the 3. column was the sorting column before then after that command the 2. column is used for sorting. This can be repeated until no column is selected for sorting any more and the sort order of the files seems to be random. I'm using windows version 3.27a, but observed this beheavior already since some time ago.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/2 "2024-08-22T12:22:26Z")
Which behavoiur did you expect so that you consider your observation as buggy behaviour?
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### Author:  [@yorickausyps](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yorickausyps)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/3 "2024-08-22T12:28:01Z")
To make it clear, I don't change the visibilty of the sorting column!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/4 "2024-08-22T12:33:09Z")
Fascinatingly, I myself reported this behaviour in 2015. It was fixed back then ...
> [@\[F\] Änderung angezeigter Spalten verschiebt Sortierungszeichen](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-anderung-angezeigter-spalten-verschiebt-sortierungszeichen/17075):
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> Folgender Fehler: Man nehme eine Menge Spalten größer 3. Man sortiere nach einer Spalte, zu der es noch mindestens 1 Spalte links und eine rechts von ihr gibt. In der Abbildung: Ausgabedatum hat das Sortierungskennzeichen. [image] Man bearbeite die Menge der abgebildeten Spalten, so dass eine Spalte links der sortierenden Spalte ausgeblendet wird - hier wird die Spalte Datum ausgeblendet damit das noch auf den Screendump passt, es kann aber auch eine Spalte mit deutlichem Abstand zur sorti…
but now it looks like it has crept in again.
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### Author:  [@yorickausyps](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yorickausyps)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/5 "2024-08-22T12:55:33Z")
You don't even have to change the visibilty of any other column, you can also change any other attribute of an arbitrary column and save the change to trigger this bug.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/6 "2024-08-22T13:42:18Z")
Yes, I've reproduced the issue — thank you for reporting. It happened during the massive refactoring towards 64-bit support, between v3.14 and v3.15.
I'll fix it to the next release.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/7 "2024-10-02T14:12:40Z")
It's now fixed with [Mp3tag v3.27b](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).
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### Author:  [@yorickausyps](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yorickausyps)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/8 "2024-10-02T17:06:51Z")
Yes, it is fixed, thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/customize-columns-also-changes-sorting-column/65691/9 "2024-11-01T17:07:08Z")
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