So one of the cool things about any Zune release is finding little gems that have been updated, added or tweaked. In this particular case, I came across a couple of extra fields that appear when you edit a song or album. Those extra fields are ‘sort album title’ and ‘sort album artist’.

With these two fields you can arrange where a particular album or song will appear in the collection listing. The feature was discovered by my boy William Devereux (many thanks, buddy!):

@tromboneforhire Aha! I figured it out. It's actually very useful. It lets you rearrange where an album appears in your collection.

@tromboneforhire For example, the Star Wars albums have Roman Numerals, so they appear "out of order." Using this, you could correct it.

@tromboneforhire Just set the sort name to "Star Wars Episode 1," etc. The album name never changes... just the invisible sorting order.

For my own personal example, I’m using the Your Entertainment, Everywhere album by Zune (Let me explain really quick – I managed to extract the audio from the Youtube video, now let’s move on).

When I change the ‘Sort Album Artist’ name to “Simply Zune”, the album moves into the S area of the category listing, but the name remains as Zune:

When I took BT’s These Hopeful Machines and called the album title 01 Hopeful Machines, it moved the album to the front of the album pack. Calling the album A Hopeful Machine, on the other hand, moves it somewhat towards the front. This must mean that A is removed and the sorting is going on Hopeful Machine, instead.

Now, it should be noted that whatever you put in these two extra fields aren’t publicly displayed. These fields are just used to help you place your collection in a much more desirable order. Also, remember this option appears when editing either an album or a song.

Gotta love Easter Eggs in the Zune software, huh?