# Plexamp sort tracks by artist?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490>\
**Category:** Plex Labs\
**Tags:** plexamp\
**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490 "2022-11-21T23:43:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackass022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@Jackass022](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jackass022)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/1 "2022-11-21T23:43:30Z")

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Hello, new to plexamp so please forgive me,

Simply looking to sort “Tracks” by Artist and not by the name of the track/song. Can’t seem to find this under the sort option. Any information on this would be helpful… kinda thought this would be stanard option. (iPhone, iOS, Plexamp 4.5.3)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/2 "2022-11-21T23:59:12Z")

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Just to make sure I understand you correctly… you want to display your library by tracks but sort them by artist (then album/title?) when selecting the „by title“ sort option?

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**Author:** ![Jackass022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@Jackass022](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jackass022)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/3 "2022-11-22T00:05:40Z")

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Hey, thanks for the reply,

When I select the sort by “Title” option, its sorting it by the title of the song and not the artist. It will sort A-Z or Z-A but it’s the song title and not the artist… I have viewed my music like this probably more than a decade on iTunes, it works the way I would like in the Web app, but not in the Plexamp app.

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**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/4 "2022-11-22T00:13:24Z")

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I agree. Album Artist is not in the Sort By list for Tracks:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/6/d/e/6de16482455624d2bb3f32ba31a356c1fb7c8499.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Jackass022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@Jackass022](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jackass022)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/5 "2022-11-22T00:17:23Z")

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It would be a nice feture for Plexamp

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**Author:** ![Shockrift1986](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Shockrift1986](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Shockrift1986)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/6 "2022-11-22T01:47:41Z")

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unless I misunderstand what you’re requesting, I think this already exists.  
while this cant be achieved directly in plexamp you could create a smart playlist with these parameters that plexamp would recognize:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/b/3/2/b32eedc23f95c4fcfac27b407c2c2612f9aa6b5d.jpeg)  
I’m assuming you would want to filter this in some way which can be achieved from the top left circled area.

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**Author:** ![Jackass022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@Jackass022](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jackass022)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/7 "2022-11-22T13:30:03Z")

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Thanks for the tip, I’ll give it a try once I get Plex back up and running after a failed update lol.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-sort-tracks-by-artist/819490/8 "2023-02-20T13:30:19Z")

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