Could multiple criteria sorting be implemented soon?

This drives me nuts. When looking at videogames, for example, I want them sorted by Platform first and then by Title. Unfortunately, DL automatically uses Creator as the secondary sort criteria, which in the case of games is their publisher, and also an utterly useless way to sort videogames.

I might be an oddball but I like my albums sorted first by Band first, and then chronologically by Release Date.

Things like this. Creator is an awful default choice for the secondary sort. I'd be happy even if the default secondary sort criteria was changed to Title, which makes infinitely more sense for all item categories.

I would like something similar to iTunes differ types of sorting. Like sort name in addition to actual name. I like to sort all my movies with a "The" at the beginning by the "The" and not the second word. Same thing with movies that start with an "A".

I also want to say that being able to sort by multiple criteria is imperative in a library system. For example, I want to separate my hardcovers from my paperbacks, but also by genre, and THEN by creator. This isn't very hard: Give me a dialog much like the Smart Shelf dialog where I can add a view column in a particular sort order. Then let me save it as a sort.

That said, for anyone who is frustrated, the Smart Shelves do give us what we want, just not in the ALL BOOKS view. For example, I've created these smart shelves:

Hardcover – Literature & Fiction (then I just sort by title or creator)
Mass Market Paperback – Literature & Fiction
Paperback – Literature & Fiction

(and so on)

As a brand new customer and, thus brand new to this forum, I would also like to add a voice as to how important this feature is. In my case, I am using this software to catalog all of the books in my library. Accordingly, I would like to be able to sort either the "all books" view or individual shelf views by Author, then by series, falling back to title if series is null, then by number within series. This equates to the following SQL code:

select Z_PK from ZABSTRACTAMAZONATTRIBUTESHOLDER
where "whatever selection criteria selects only those entries actually in the library or on the shelf"
order by ZCREATORSCOMPOSITESTRING,coalesce(ZSERIESSINGULARSTRING,ZTITLE),ZNUMBERINSERIES;

I left off the function that changes the ZCREATORSCOMPOSITESTRING field to be in the order of lastname, firstname but I assume you already have that since that is how the existing "sort by creator" appears to work.

So, if a means were provided where users could specify the fields which would then be used in the "order by" statement of the sql query, we could pretty much do whatever sorting we wished. If you also gave us the ability to select internal functions that may exist to massage the data in various fields (e.g. the function that removes articles from text fields) then the product should come pretty close to being able to let everyone sort any shelf pretty much whatever way they want to.

Hopefully, this is something that can be considered.

It would be great too for author, then series.