# Sorting of tracks by Album tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 4, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312 "2013-01-04T11:52:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@oherbst](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/oherbst)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312/1 "2013-01-04T11:52:16Z")
It would be great if mp3tag would support sorting by Album tag in a future release.
Currently it is either not supported or not working properly. See screenshot.
The sorting also does not change on changing from ascending to descending or vice versa.
Especially when applying album covers to multiple albums of the same artist this feature would be really helpful.
I wonder that this issue is not yet implemented or fixed, because it is a basic and simple one.
With all other tag-columns the sorting works fine, as far as I have seen it.
Best Regards,
Oliver
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312/2 "2013-01-04T12:20:01Z")
> [@oherbst](#):
>
> It would be great if mp3tag would support sorting by Album tag in a future release.
> Currently it is either not supported or not working properly. See screenshot.
> The sorting also does not change on changing from ascending to descending or vice versa.
>
> Especially when applying album covers to multiple albums of the same artist this feature would be really helpful.
>
> I wonder that this issue is not yet implemented or fixed, because it is a basic and simple one.
> With all other tag-columns the sorting works fine, as far as I have seen it.
>
> Best Regards,
> Oliver
Already supports this (and has for many years, maybe from the beginning). I can sort by album tag, ascending or decending. Something odd happening in your install. I'd reinstall mp3tag and see if that solves your issue. definitely not an issue with the software itself.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312/3 "2013-01-04T12:29:31Z")
Could you right-click the column-header for Album to open the dialogue "Columns ...".
In This dialogue check the definition for the contents of that column.
For FIELD and VALUE it should show %album%.
The checkbox "numeric" should not be ticked.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-of-tracks-by-album-tag/14312/4 "2013-01-04T12:36:05Z")
> [@oherbst](#):
>
> It would be great if mp3tag would support sorting by Album tag ... is not yet implemented ... With all other tag-columns the sorting works fine, as far as I have seen it. ...
1. Close the seemingly empty Filter dialog.
2. Check the column definition.
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