Order of Albums

[Swiftie]

Both my server and my controller are on software 7.5.0
The defined sort order of albums is "Album"

I went looking for "Anthology" by Anthony Phillips. It wasn't amongst the albums which start with "A".

On the controller, I scrolled back to the "A" section and it wasn't there. I went back through the numerics, then special characters, and right at the top were a sprinkling of albums which should have been elsewhere.

The order was the same on the server, via the web control.

Right at the top, before all the numeric/special characters were albums:

A Catch At The Tables
Anthology
Pride
The Cry
... and so on.

What are these albums doing at the very top of the list? How did they get there? How can I sort them into their correct position?

[iPhone]

Both my server and my controller are on software 7.5.0
The defined sort order of albums is "Album"

I went looking for "Anthology" by Anthony Phillips. It wasn't amongst the albums which start with "A".

On the controller, I scrolled back to the "A" section and it wasn't there. I went back through the numerics, then special characters, and right at the top were a sprinkling of albums which should have been elsewhere.

The order was the same on the server, via the web control.

Right at the top, before all the numeric/special characters were albums:

A Catch At The Tables
Anthology
Pride
The Cry
... and so on.

What are these albums doing at the very top of the list? How did they get there? How can I sort them into their correct position?

Have you taken a close look at the tags? Have you taken a look at your settings in SBS to see how you have everything set to make sure something isn't set that would cause this and its just doing what you ask it to? I had a couple of albums acting weird and somehow a blank space or special character had gotten inserted before the first letter of the album. Re-tagging and doing a Clear and Rescan fixed the issue.

Lastly, when was the last time you did a Clear all and Rescan?

[Swiftie]

Have you taken a close look at the tags?

I hadn't looked at the tags; there didn't seem to be anything odd about the mis-placed albums. When I looked at the very first album in my album list there was nothing wildly wrong with the tags; certainly no odd characters in the title. The tracks contained no "Album Artist" tags, and the date tags were either 1984 or 1987. I added Album Artist tags, and rationalised the dates to the release date of the album, 1984.

My last clear and rescan would have been a couple of weeks ago; I did another. This has fixed all of those misplaced albums, so it is likely the rescan that fixed the order, rather than my tag fiddling.

It leaves me wondering how they got out of order in the first place, but at least I have things ship-shape again.