diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 0c2434c5..1c466151 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3375,6 +3375,8 @@ Stefan Herdler <herdler@gmx.de>
  for fixing cMarks::GetNextBegin() and cMarks::GetNextEnd()
  for reporting that pausing replay at the last editing mark actually paused one I-frame
  too early
+ for reporting a bug in using the default sort mode in a video directory without a
+ ".sort" file
 
 Tobias Faust <tobias.faust@gmx.de>
  for the original "jumpingseconds" patch
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index d0c6f95e..a5a01244 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8568,7 +8568,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Updated the French OSD texts (thanks to Régis Bossut).
 - Fixed the German translation of "Zap timeout" (thanks to Albert Danis).
 
-2015-02-13: Version 2.2.0
+2015-02-16: Version 2.2.0
 
 - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras).
 - Updated the Macedonian OSD texts (thanks to Dimitar Petrovski).
@@ -8582,3 +8582,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed pausing replay at the last editing mark (reported by Stefan Herdler).
 - Updated the Polish OSD texts (thanks to Tomasz Maciej Nowak).
 - Updated the Ukrainian OSD texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk).
+- Fixed using the default sort mode in a video directory without a ".sort" file
+  (reported by Stefan Herdler).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 337d4a88..0a084140 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 3.27 2015/02/07 16:07:22 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 3.28 2015/02/16 07:49:14 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -3027,6 +3027,7 @@ bool HasRecordingsSortMode(const char *Directory)
 
 void GetRecordingsSortMode(const char *Directory)
 {
+  RecordingsSortMode = rsmName;
   if (FILE *f = fopen(AddDirectory(Directory, SORTMODEFILE), "r")) {
      char buf[8];
      if (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), f))