Special treatment of "The" in artist names

by **TheRocket** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:03 pm

Just to say thay it is already in the wish list...

'The' (show artist as the beatles, beatles, the or beatles as user wishes)

by **Andreas** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:19 pm

What about the "sort as" field in ID3? (Can't remember its correct name, but it's there...) Could you not simply honour that one if it exists? In that case, I could call them The Beatles in the list, but sort them like Beatles, The (if I want to).

by **Lowlander** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:51 pm

This is spoken about before, yeah. Even The The were mentioned. What will be implemented has to been seen. But the opinions differed quit a bit. Hopefully something that can be customized to each users preference will be worked out.

by **FatJinx** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:46 am

I must pay more attention.
You might still want to look out for "The The" though.....

by **FatJinx** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:28 am

This is something that Windows Media Player does.
If the artist name begins with "The" it uses the second word for alphabetical sorts.

Thus "The Band" would be listed under B but still display as "The Band". I currently have around 60 artists starting with "The" and listed under T.

I know you can change the name to, e.g. "Band, The", but it's not quite as elegant.

Hmmm... That's got me thinking. I wonder what media player will do with the band name "The The".......

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Apologies. This is already on the "sticky" wishlis

Special treatment of "The" in artist names