I have Juk, Elisa, and Audacious installed. None of them sort the music files in an order that makes sense. In each app, I've clicked on Artists, Albums, Title/Track Name for sorting purposes and the order does not sort properly. For example, in Juk, I just clicked on Track Name column and one small selection of the tracks "New Birth in New England", "Close Range", "No Kings". "Ode To Michael Hedges", "Personal Jesus", and "My Honeybrown". I click on Artist column and now a selection from there "Bad Religion", "Iron & Wine", "Jenny Lewis", "Del The Funky Homosapien". And there is only one of each of those artists' song in that short list, while each of the artists just named have complete albums associated with them in my collection, so I would expect at least complete albums by artist in the bad order, but it's not even doing that. This is the same in each app. How do I get at least one of these apps to list files correctly?

Please define "properly."

If organizing the collection by Track Name/Title, instead of the list being:
"New Birth in New England", "Close Range", "No Kings". "Ode To Michael Hedges", "Personal Jesus", and "My Honeybrown"
It should be:
"Close Range", "My Honeybrown", "New Birth in New England", "No Kings", "Ode To Michael Hedges", "Personal Jesus".

Or if organizing by Artist, instead of:
Bad Religion, Iron & Wine, Jenny Lewis, Del The Funky Homosapien.

It should be:
Bad Religion, Del The Funky Homosapien, Iron & Wine, Jenny Lewis.

In both of the examples, the first list is how they appear in Juk. Am I wrong to expect organizing by Artist means that the Artist names are listed alphabetically? And if organized by Artist, shouldn't all of the tracks by an Artist be grouped together, instead of just a few from an artist before the next artist's tracks appear? In the attached picture, I just clicked on the "Artist" column to sort and you can see that the order is not alphabetized or grouped by artist. Or by any other column for that matter. If I click on a column, the order changes, but it doesn't sort properly. This is in Juk, but it's the same in Audacious and Elisa.

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I think I found what I wanted. On another forum for Audacious, this thread says the default in Audacious is file path. I had not paid that any attention the other time I looked. I used this and the songs appear in the player in the order I want: Artist in alphabetical and then albums. https://redmine.audacious-media-play...4#message-2554

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