Issue can be closed. This functionality had been added in the 0.14 release in 2011 [1] It is working now in current Debian packages.
[1] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/changelog/#release-0.14 On Mon, 31 May 2010 03:35:07 +0000 "brian m. carlson" < [email protected]> wrote: > Package: picard > Version: 0.11-2.1+b1 > Severity: normal > > When I process files through picard for tagging, I am unable to sort (in > the right pane) based on album title or artist. I would very much like > to be able to do that, since sometimes tracks from the same album appear > in multiple editions. > > This is severity normal because although it is a request for a new > feature, the lack of it makes picard *very* difficult to use for > large-scale (approximately 1200 song) tagging. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages picard depends on: > ii libavcodec52 5:0.6~svn20100526-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi > ii libavformat52 5:0.6~svn20100526-0.0 ffmpeg file format library > ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib > ii libdiscid0 0.2.2-1 Library for creating MusicBrainz D > ii libfftw3-3 3.2.2-1 library for computing Fast Fourier > ii libgcc1 1:4.5-20091226-1 GCC support library > ii libofa0 0.9.3-3.1 Library for acoustic fingerprintin > ii libstdc++6 4.5-20091226-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o > ii python-mutagen 1.15-2 audio metadata editing library > ii python-qt4 4.7.3-1 Python bindings for Qt4 > ii python-support 1.0.8 automated rebuilding support for P > > picard recommends no packages. > > picard suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- > brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US > +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only > OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
