# Secondary sort?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/secondary-sort/3571
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 17, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/secondary-sort/3571 "2006-07-17T19:19:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rvdc2006](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rvdc2006)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/secondary-sort/3571/1 "2006-07-17T19:19:53Z")
I sorted my list of MP3s in Mp3tag v2.36a by artist.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there a way to do a secondary sort by album? (So sort by album within artists.) By default, Mp3tag seems to do the secondary sort by file name, which breaks up albums in the list.
Thanks
Ron (in Seattle, WA)
[www.dutchoutpost.us](http://www.dutchoutpost.us)
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/secondary-sort/3571/2 "2006-07-18T02:07:00Z")
> [@Ron](#):
>
> ... sort by album within artists. ...
Under _View/Columns_ you can define each column how it has to be sorted.
In your case the column **%artist%** should be sorted by **%artist%%album%**.
DD.20060718.0607
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### Author:  [@aladoro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aladoro)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/secondary-sort/3571/3 "2006-07-19T06:28:02Z")
or simply click on those column headers you want to use for sorting _in reverse order_!
ie for sorting by artist/album/title click on title, album and artist col headers
easy as ...
HTH, andreas
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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/secondary-sort/3571/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:49Z")