[Wrao]

I was using iTunes and I wanted to change my Purchased list to show new items on the top, since it is has gotten very large and I don't like having to scroll to the bottom to listen to the latest(I quite regularly use my purchased playlist since it has all my latest new tunes on it). It is easy enough to flip the list but then the track numbers for each album get flipped. So I start with the last track and work my way down. This is unacceptable.

The solution to this, that I see, would be to have some form of hierarchy with list organization, where, instead of only accepting one type of organization, it would operate like item a THEN item b. It seems like the logical extension of list based organization, and I am a little surprised there is no way to accomplish this.

Unless of course, there is and I have somehow missed it?

You are able to accomplish a similar thing in iChat when you sort by name THEN availability it gives you an alphabetical list that keeps the online folks at the top, versus when you just sort by name and you get a abecedarian's list of online/offline/away and whatever. I'm wondering why we don't see more of that type of hierarchy throughout the system's organization. Is it there and I'm missing it? is it because it's too complicated for a beginner user? does such organization exist in windows?

[sunrain]

It exists in Spotlight. Maybe you could do it that way?

[chucker]

Ironically, iTunes 7 does add some features towards that direction; for example, you can click the Album column header to swap between sorting by Album, Album by Artist and Album by Year.

[joveblue]

No, I'm pretty sure theres nothing in Windows like that. None of the apps I have anyway...

I also thought that would be useful in iTunes.