diff --git a/app/Assets/Helpers.php b/app/Assets/Helpers.php
index 331a8205919..956306182d7 100644
--- a/app/Assets/Helpers.php
+++ b/app/Assets/Helpers.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace App\Assets;
 
 use App\Exceptions\Internal\ZeroModuloException;
+use Exception;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\File;
 use function Safe\ini_get;
 
@@ -261,4 +262,23 @@ public function censor(string $string, float $percentOfClear = 0.5): string
 
 		return substr_replace($string, $replacement, $start, $censored_length);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Format exception trace as text.
+	 *
+	 * @param \Exception $e
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 *
+	 * @codeCoverageIgnore
+	 */
+	public function exceptionTraceToText(\Exception $e): string
+	{
+		$renderer = new ArrayToTextTable();
+
+		return $renderer->getTable(collect($e->getTrace())->map(fn (array $err) => [
+			'class' => $err['class'] ?? $err['file'] ?? '?',
+			'line' => $err['line'] ?? '?',
+			'function' => $err['function']])->all());
+	}
 }
diff --git a/app/Models/Album.php b/app/Models/Album.php
index a48e894d7a0..18d2bddf9d7 100644
--- a/app/Models/Album.php
+++ b/app/Models/Album.php
@@ -462,4 +462,14 @@ protected function setAlbumSortingAttribute(?AlbumSortingCriterion $sorting): vo
 		$this->attributes['album_sorting_col'] = $sorting?->column->value;
 		$this->attributes['album_sorting_order'] = $sorting?->order->value;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the criterion acc. to which **albums** inside the album shall be sorted.
+	 *
+	 * @return AlbumSortingCriterion
+	 */
+	public function getEffectiveAlbumSorting(): AlbumSortingCriterion
+	{
+		return $this->getAlbumSortingAttribute() ?? AlbumSortingCriterion::createDefault();
+	}
 }
diff --git a/app/Relations/HasManyChildAlbums.php b/app/Relations/HasManyChildAlbums.php
index 129accd36d3..655ff4d8dfd 100644
--- a/app/Relations/HasManyChildAlbums.php
+++ b/app/Relations/HasManyChildAlbums.php
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 namespace App\Relations;
 
 use App\Contracts\Exceptions\InternalLycheeException;
-use App\DTO\AlbumSortingCriterion;
 use App\Enum\OrderSortingType;
 use App\Exceptions\Internal\InvalidOrderDirectionException;
 use App\Models\Album;
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@
 class HasManyChildAlbums extends HasManyBidirectionally
 {
 	protected AlbumQueryPolicy $albumQueryPolicy;
-	private AlbumSortingCriterion $sorting;
 
 	public function __construct(Album $owningAlbum)
 	{
@@ -28,7 +26,7 @@ public function __construct(Album $owningAlbum)
 		// The parent constructor calls `addConstraints` and thus our own
 		// attributes must be initialized by then
 		$this->albumQueryPolicy = resolve(AlbumQueryPolicy::class);
-		$this->sorting = $owningAlbum->album_sorting ?? AlbumSortingCriterion::createDefault();
+
 		parent::__construct(
 			$owningAlbum->newQuery(),
 			$owningAlbum,
@@ -85,11 +83,15 @@ public function getResults(): Collection
 			return $this->related->newCollection();
 		}
 
+		$albumSorting = $this->getParent()->getEffectiveAlbumSorting();
+
 		/** @var SortingDecorator<Album> */
 		$sortingDecorator = new SortingDecorator($this->query);
 
 		return $sortingDecorator
-			->orderBy($this->sorting->column, $this->sorting->order)
+			->orderBy(
+				$albumSorting->column,
+				$albumSorting->order)
 			->get();
 	}
 
@@ -113,8 +115,9 @@ public function match(array $models, Collection $results, $relation): array
 			if (isset($dictionary[$key = $this->getDictionaryKey($model->getAttribute($this->localKey))])) {
 				/** @var Collection<int,Album> $childrenOfModel */
 				$childrenOfModel = $this->getRelationValue($dictionary, $key, 'many');
+				$sorting = $model->getEffectiveAlbumSorting();
 				$childrenOfModel = $childrenOfModel
-					->sortBy($this->sorting->column->value, SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE, $this->sorting->order === OrderSortingType::DESC)
+					->sortBy($sorting->column->value, SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE, $sorting->order === OrderSortingType::DESC)
 					->values();
 				$model->setRelation($relation, $childrenOfModel);
 				// This is the newly added code which sets this method apart