# Sorting on mutiple fields & Find within specific fields
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 8, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655 "2026-02-08T19:16:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Trancedaddy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/1 "2026-02-08T19:16:25Z")
Hi,
While I don’t see a way of doing this but as a thought for future updates to have the ability to sort on more than one field only, for example sort on Artist and then Title. This would be extremely helpful when you have duplicates songs. The other thing that would be nice is to have Find able to define what field you want to search such as Title only
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/2 "2026-02-08T19:21:54Z")
All the functions that you wish for are already available:
To sort click on the column header, e.g. first on the one for TITLE and then for ARTIST.
Alternatively, set the column property "[Sort by](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list/#editing-columns)" to the fields that you want to have that column sorted by default.
There is a [Edit\>Find ...](https://docs.mp3tag.de/find/) function to search for words or even regular expressions.
Something similar is provided with the Filter function, see the documentation:
> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/)**
>
> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Trancedaddy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/3 "2026-02-08T21:05:40Z")
Sorry what I meant to is to Sort on Artist & Title together so it puts the song in proper order. I understand that you can sort on each but not combined.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/4 "2026-02-08T21:11:13Z")
> [@Trancedaddy](#):
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> you can sort on each but not combined
Have you tried it?
I suggested 2 ways to get the result:
- clicking on columns after another will group files together according to your criteria
- set a default order with the column property "Sort by"
I don't see those attempts in your response.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/5 "2026-02-08T21:18:22Z")
Example: first sort by TITLE to get all titles sorted alphabetically, then click on ARTIST to get all titles by one artist grouped together. The previous sort order is kept for all files that have the same data for the second sorted column
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### Author:  [@Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Trancedaddy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/6 "2026-02-08T21:33:44Z")
yeah I did the sort by and added Artist Title together that works, I will try your way again do I need to hold down Ctrl or shift key?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/7 "2026-02-08T21:37:42Z")
AFAIK no additional key is needed.
But you could try if you get better/different results with the modifiers.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-on-mutiple-fields-find-within-specific-fields/70655/8 "2026-02-15T21:38:04Z")
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