diff --git a/tubesync/sync/utils.py b/tubesync/sync/utils.py
index 9f599672..917a9531 100644
--- a/tubesync/sync/utils.py
+++ b/tubesync/sync/utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import math
 from copy import deepcopy
-from operator import itemgetter
+from operator import attrgetter, itemgetter
 from pathlib import Path
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 import requests
@@ -179,10 +179,16 @@ def seconds_to_timestr(seconds):
    return '{:02d}:{:02d}:{:02d}'.format(hour, minutes, seconds)
 
 
-def multi_key_sort(sort_dict, specs, use_reversed=False):
-    result = list(sort_dict)
+def multi_key_sort(iterable, specs, /, use_reversed=False, *, item=False, attr=False, key_func=None):
+    result = list(iterable)
+    if key_func is None:
+        # itemgetter is the default
+        if item or not (item or attr):
+            key_func = itemgetter
+        elif attr:
+            key_func = attrgetter
     for key, reverse in reversed(specs):
-        result = sorted(result, key=itemgetter(key), reverse=reverse)
+        result.sort(key=key_func(key), reverse=reverse)
     if use_reversed:
         return list(reversed(result))
     return result