If I go to a Soup view for an album, and pick that album, and it plays it in alphabetical order, I would be very very unhappy and would immediately report it as a bug.

Nobody has suggested that it might behave like that.

Everywhere tracks from only one album appear -- namely, in the submenus of the Albums menu on either HSX or car-player, and in the submenus under each album under the Artists menu on HSX -- the tracks are in track number order. Everywhere tracks from potentially several albums appear -- namely, in the submenus of the Artists menu on the car-player -- the tracks are in alphabetical order.

Count the commas in Roger's code fragment: the Artists menu tree on HSX is three levels deep, all the other menu trees (including the Artists menu on a car-player) are two levels deep.

This because selecting (say) Stone Roses from the Artists menu on HSX takes you to a submenu containing (say) Turns Into Stone and The Second Coming. Those menus in turn take you to track listings of those albums in track number order. On a car-player, selecting Stone Roses from the Artists menu takes you straight to a list of all Stone Roses tracks in alphabetical order irrespective of album. But even on a car-player, all albums are available in album order from the Albums menu.

Peter