Custom Sorting Priority Issue

[Astro Gaze]

I'm in a playlist named Before the 90's, Viewing by Track, and I can't get Sort By > Define Custom Sorting to prioritize Original Year, over Year. It always prefers Year first. I've tried Define Custom Sort By
1. Original Year/Year/Artist
2. Original Year/Year (yyyy)/ Artist
3. Artist/Original Year/Year

When I switch between option 1 and 3 it's visible that there is a priority order.

The reason I'm trying to use two different "years" is because I have some movie soundtracks and compilation albums that contain songs from different years than the album release date, and I want the songs broken up from the album, within the playlist. So I set the Original Year in Tags (2). For example Goodfellas is a movie from the 90's, but each song is set between 1950-1970.

I thought it would be more streamlined to use Original Year only on an as-needed basis. Otherwise, you'd have to tag Original Year for your entire library, and any new tracks added, just to bend around a few albums.

Cheers,
Astro Gaze

[Steven]

working fine here. Are the original year values valid year with 4 digits?
Also update to v3.5 if not already using it - its available from the first forum topic

[Astro Gaze]

I'm not sure what you mean by valid year, but yes they are only 4 digits. Ex. 1954

I'm already running v3.5 Patch 2, as per your reply on my LikeADJ question. To solve that issue I did a clean install of MusicBee Installer, then updated to 3.5.

Is there anything else I can try? Maybe a log file I can send?

[Steven]

could you post a screenshot