iTunes sort fields.

iTunes 7.1, which dropped a week and a half ago, came with the unexplained feature of “enhanced sort options.” If you don’t have the patience to figure out what that means, but you like organizing, Paul Mison has your back.

Essentially, each song now has fields like Sort Artist and Sort Album which change the order things are displayed in your library. So if you’re anal about organizing your collection, like I am, you can go change all the Sort Artist fields to “Hendrix, Jimi” and “Simon, Paul” so that everyone pops up in the right spot. You can do the same thing for song and album titles, but I’m not sure when that’d be necessary.

Note that while iPods respect sort fields, Front Row does not (at least not yet).