How to sort the tag appearance in the metadata pane in Picard

Picard sorts the tags (like “Title”, “Artist”, “Album”, “Track Number”, “Length” and “Date”) in the metadata pane (#6) alphabetically:

You can adjust your “favorite” tags in Options → Options → User Interface → Top Tags
By default, the 6 Tags mentioned above are always shown first.

But there is one more option:
“Show changes first”

This setting appears if you right click on one of the tags in the metadata pane (#6):
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I hope that I can remember this post after my next fresh installation of Picard :innocent:

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Thanks for this. Would you consider drafting something describing this for the FAQ section of the documentation? That might be easier to find later than this post in the Forun. :wink: Thanks.

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Feel free to use the part “But there is…” and add it to your existing Top Tags help topic.

I don’t think we need much more then that. :thinking:

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I’ve entered a pull request to add the following note after the existing text as you’ve suggested. Thanks.

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