"T" Button Scrolls to then next "The ..." Artist

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cocodrylo
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"T" Button Scrolls to then next "The ..." Artist

Post by cocodrylo »

Hi,

So I just found out about MM and it is definitely better than other programs I've tried.

The only problem I've encountered so far begins with the fact that when I want to quickly get to an artist in my artist column of my media library, I usually just select an artist in that column and typed the first letter of the name of the artist. This works for most purposes. So I can jump to the first of the artists that start with an 'S' by simply hitting the 'S' button.

Unfortunately, while MM sorts artists by ignoring the term 'the' in the artist's title (e.g., "The Beatles" is just below "Beastie Boys"), typing the letter T' jumps me down to "The Beatles" and not to the first actual 'T' Artist.

It wouldn't be a big deal if MM lumped all "The..." artists in the T section, but they don't, so to get to any 'T' artist requires mouse scrolling past hundreds of artists that have scattered "The..." names.

Does anyone know a workaround for this? It doesn't happen in Winamp -- a 'T' hit goes right to the "Ta..." artist, not to "The Beatles"

Thanks! :D

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dtsig
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Re: "T" Button Scrolls to then next "The ..." Artist

Post by dtsig »

I don't know a simple work around for this but the 'the' (any prefix actually) has been discussed before.
Among the users there is the belief that this needs to be enhanced. But with all the good things being worked on I wouldn't count on this any time soon. Of course if i am wrong I would be very happy :)
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cocodrylo
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Re: "T" Button Scrolls to then next "The ..." Artist

Post by cocodrylo »

Ah well, I guess it's not too bad. The weird thing is that they programmers thought to have MMW ignore "The" when it sorts the library, but not when jumping down a list.
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Re: "T" Button Scrolls to then next "The ..." Artist

Post by cocodrylo »

By the way, Thanks Lowlander and dtsig!!
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