# Getting filelist column sort to work in alphabetical order
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 29, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972 "2006-10-29T18:02:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972/1 "2006-10-29T18:02:51Z")
Anyone know how to achieve this? Currently I get e.g.
Canaro en Paris.wma
Canaro.wma
instead 0f
Canaro.wma
Canaro en Paris.wma
as expected.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972/2 "2006-10-30T18:25:54Z")
You can put %\_filename% at Sort by at the column definition at View \> Columns....
Best regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972/3 "2006-10-30T21:34:13Z")
Thanks, but that loses the extension sorting.
Ah! solution found:
Sort by %\_filename%[TAB]%\_extension%
Many thanks for such a flexible and intuitive program!
Chris
PS Suggestion for improvement: give all these text box labels a colon - currently only "Field" has one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-filelist-column-sort-to-work-in-alphabetical-order/3972/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:58Z")