Thanks, glynor...
It's really boaring, because it doesn't work for CDs; i.e. everytime a new CD is inserted for ripping it changes back to the default scheme. To say that this isn't ideal is very polite....
You can change the current view for viewing a CD drive's contents and the Recently Ripped and Recently Imported views. Once done, they will remain as you set them from one CD to the next. You just have to edit the current view in each context individually.
To change the current view for a CD drive, click on the drive icon in the tree area on the left so that the list of tracks is displayed. Right click on the column heading (album, artist, etc.) and choose "Customize Current View". Make your changes to the columns displayed and the sort order and click OK.
I think that the current view for CD drives and the Recently views is specific to a library. So if you have several libraries, you may need to edit the current views for all of them.
Bill