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.
> 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
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