Author Topic: Adding Words (e.g. "the") to be Ignored by Musicbee in Artist Name Sorting  (Read 1978 times)

G-Power

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Hey.
Is there a way to add words in the list of that to be ignored in the sorting of artist/album/track titles?
For example, the word "the" is ignored in artist sorting is such a way that an artist named "The Musicbee" will be sorted in M rather than in T.
See, I would like artist names starting with French and Spanish determiners, and perhaps other such words, to be treated in the same way as English artist names.
Thanks!


G-Power

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No way! This is so awesome.
Is it case sensitive?
I assume I need to separate the words in the field with a semicolon(?).
Thanks!

phred

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No way! This is so awesome.
Is it case sensitive?
I assume I need to separate the words in the field with a semicolon(?).
Thanks!
Use a comma to separate the words/letters/numbers/symbols. I'm pretty sure it's not case sensitive.
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G-Power

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No way! This is so awesome.
Is it case sensitive?
I assume I need to separate the words in the field with a semicolon(?).
Thanks!
Use a comma to separate the words/letters/numbers/symbols. I'm pretty sure it's not case sensitive.

Cool. Thanks, Phred.
Also, by curiosity, I was wondering if the words in the "ignore" list will exclusively be ignored at the beginning of a title or also in the middle of it, even though this question will probably never be of any practical use. 😂
Thanks again.

phred

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Since it applies to sorting, it will be used at the beginning of the title or artist
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G-Power

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Cool.
By the way, I tested with both semicolons and commas, and only commas will work for separating the words in the list of words to be ignored.

Thanks for the help!

phred

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You''re welcome. I -did- say to use commas.
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