iTunes Tagging Vs. Sorting

One of the features I love in iTunes is the ability to sort a song with a different title or artist than the one it is actual named with. so let ’s say that we have the song “I walk the line” as it was preformed by Bob Dylan. So it is part of the “Dylan-Cash sessions” and the album artist is Bob Dylan. However since in that song both Dylan and Cash are singing the artist song is Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. The info panel wi look something like this:

The known iTunes Tag (info) panel.

However I want the song in the iPod to be indexed as if it was from Bob Dylan so I can find it under the selection Bob Dylan. So you can go to less famous panel called sorting. There you can change the title or artist (album etc) different that the original so it will be easier accessible.

The less known iTunes Sorting panel.

So now after this changes we can easily find this song under Bob Dylan, and not under Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. It is extremely important especially when you are forgetting the duets, or if you are bilingual, and you are editing the tags in your native alphabet but you want to find it with the latin alphabet. This is useful for searching a song on iPod and iPhone that do not support other inputs. See the following picture for example.

The Sorting panel used for international sorting and tagging.

Now the best part is that you can find this song by either typing “Σπανουδάκης” or “Spanoudakis”.