there's no way to set this via configuration, you would actually need to go down to the file (the MySQL query) to change the order...

Thanks for the quick response. I'd rather not adjust the logic of the component itself, because I'll lose those custom configurations when there's any kind of update.

That said--does the current logic sort ascending by album ID number? If so, where could I edit those ID numbers? If not, how does it pull so that I can get a workaround in place?

The problem is that I initially loaded the oldest albums first. In the future, all the the albums I add will of course be the newest ones, so this won't be an issue moving forward.

no, it's not by ID number, it's by ALBUM YEAR. this is set in the /components/com_muscol/models/artist.php file... it's quite easy to change!

Sorry to resurrect this thread from a while back. If I wanted to change the sort order on the artist page to the catalog number field, descending, where would I look to do that?

/components/com_muscol/models/artist.php, just look for the MySQL query and add the sorting option.