iTunes Changes?
I got the latest iTunes upgrade, even though I don’t have an iPhone, and it seems like they’ve changed the alphabetization rules. I tend to have my library sorted by artist, and the very first song used to be ‘N Sync’s “Pop” (shut up) followed by a whole bunch of 10,000 Maniacs.
After the update, ‘N Sync seems to be sorted under “N” (rather than the apostrophe) and 10,000 Maniacs seems to be at the very end — numbers now are apparently sorted after letters and initial punctuation is now ignored. All in all, a much smarter scheme than the previous ASCII-based sort.
Anyway, I’m pleasantly surprised to find that the first thing to come up in Cover Flow is now the much hipper A.C. Newman.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Oh! I, too, upgraded, and something was different, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Thanks for being more observant than me, even if you listen to ‘N Sync. I probably wouldn’t have noticed if only 10,000 Maniacs had moved, but I have a whole bunch of albums that start with either a number or punctuation (…Nothing Like the Sun), so the list of albums seemed wrong.
I am wondering whether the Aaliyah estate had a role in this whole shift.