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seems like an obvious thing for it to really

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Obvious to request does not equal obvious to implement

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i mean why would you want the tracks to play alphbetically?

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Without implementing custom sort orders, in the general case the only sensible thing I can do is sort alphabetically. For instance, order by track # only makes sense if Album is the bottom of your stack -- it wouldn't if you had Artist at the bottom.

ms