# What is grouping and how to sort by artist **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-grouping-and-how-to-sort-by-artist/62000 **Category:** Support **Tags:** player **Created:** [August 31, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-grouping-and-how-to-sort-by-artist/62000 "2023-08-31T14:02:46Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/motleyg/32/440_2.png) [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG) #### Post date: [August 31, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-grouping-and-how-to-sort-by-artist/62000/10 "2023-08-31T17:02:57Z")
What kind of phone are you using? Typically the default music player apps the include are rather basic in nature. There are plenty of free and premium (paid-for) apps on both the Apple and Google patforms. I have shared some of my personal experience details in the off-topic section. Feel free to browse and consider one of these alternatives that work better than most of the basic players. Apple > [@iOS Media Players](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ios-media-players/58847): > > While the Music app that Apple has included on all of their iOS devices is functional, it isn't one that meets the expectations for many music fans with deep libraries with curated metadata. From a design perspective, of course it follows Apple's key structure. It is fully integrated into the previous iTunes (Windows) and current MacOS Music for handling the process of getting local media from your home computer to your device. But it is clear that their direction is to push to the subscription … Android > [@Android Media Players](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/android-media-players/57992): > > There are many players on the Android platform, but almost all use the base Android APIs and media library that limits their functionality and performance that don’t make them much different than the stock player other than cosmetically. One player app that breaks from this trend and I have been using for some time is GoneMAD. It builds its’ own database library, and key to me is that it supports the use of sort tags for Album, Artist, AlbumArtist, and Composer. It also supports multi artist an… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-grouping-and-how-to-sort-by-artist/62000)._