Author Topic: Ignore words when sorting (The, etc..) for other fields, including Virtual Tags  (Read 1321 times)

Pai_Natal

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This issue came up in the following topic.
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=38895.0

When creating a Virtual Tag that uses the <Album> tag, it will no longer ignore the selected words in the Preferences > Sorting/Grouping Tab when sorting.

The $Sort function or <Sort Album> tag will sort the albums as intended, but changes the display of the album names, displacing the ignored words to the end, preceded by a coma (eg. Rolling Stones, The).

It would be great if the ignored words could also be applied to other fields besides Album, Artist and Title.
When creating a Virtual tag, there could be a checkbox to chose if it should ignore the words when sorting, or not.


tjinc

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+1

I realise that the desired end result can now be achieved using the custom sort function (that is now available for virtual tags), but this can mean an awful lot of custom sort values to configure (there are a lot of bands/albums that begin with 'The', 'A' etc).

While I am perfectly happy to do this, just wondering if this might be better implemented with this request.
Last Edit: February 16, 2025, 11:53:13 AM by tjinc