Basic error in numerical sorting of album names

[DavidL]

(12-01-2014 19:57)simoncn Wrote:  

(12-01-2014 19:35)DavidL Wrote:  Are you saying iTunes on Windows gives the erroneous alphabetical sort: 1,10,11,2,3 etc?

David

Alphabetical sorting is not erroneous. It's not your personal preference, but that isn't the same thing.

As I said in an earlier post, iTunes on Windows is sorting the album title "Test 10 xxx" before "Test 2 xxx".

Thanks for the clarification.
I did a similar set of tests with iTunes running on a Mac Mini this morning. I called my albums A 1, A 2 ……………A 10, A 11, A 12. These were sorted (correctly??) in ascending order.

Thanks to contributors for the depth of discussion of this topic. I'm obviously in a minority so it looks as though I will need to edit several hundred album titles to ensure I obtain what I regard as the 'natural' sort order for classical music works of the type I listed above.

David