Sorting albums in numberr order

[Hellscaretaker]

I'm trying to work out why it puts Now thats what i call music 56 before Now 55. im using sort be date ascending and the date entry in the albums are correct with 55 coming out a few months before 56.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ja0hnus ... 06o5x&dl=0

[Lowlander]

Which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey, what are you sorting on, and do you have full date (or just year value) in the Date field?

[Hellscaretaker]

I'm using build 5.1.0.2829 at present.

Regarding the Date field.

I'm using this format

17/11/2003 for Now 56
22/07/2003 for Now 55

Just to add I'm using the UK format of Date.

To sort i was doing via the Date at the top of the screen

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ja0hnus ... 06o5x&dl=0

[Barry4679]

Regarding the Date field.

I'm using this format

17/11/2003 for Now 56
22/07/2003 for Now 55

Just to add I'm using the UK format of Date.

What is the "for Now xx" suffix that you are appending to the date?

It looks MM is not recognising your "dates" as being calendar dates. ... because they have not been recorded in a generally recognised date format. It is sorting the column alphabetically, ie "17" comes before "22"

If the "for Now xx" values are meaningful for you for grouping or filter purposes, you should put those values in one of the Custom tags.

I don't think that MM has custom settings for date format. I think that they get the date format from where you have configured your geographic region in Windows. If your PC is configured to be in a region that uses day/month/year date format MM will OK with UK date format.