MusicBee ignores 'the' when sorting, but my iPod Classic 160GB won't

[Abel]

Anyway to fix this? Or should I change something in the preferences? As of right now my iPod sorts 'The Killers', 'The XX' and 'The Rolling Stones' under T, but I would like 'The Killers' to be sorted under K, 'The XX' under X etc. without changing the artist name to something like 'Killers, The'.

Thanks in advance

[Alumni]

I think you might need to add "sort album artist" tags to your files. Try it with one of your albums and see if it works.

[redwing]

Probably it has nothing to do with MB.
It's a long story, but my guess is it's your iPod's fault. Factory reset might help, but it hasn't proved yet nor I can guarantee it would work: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=9383.msg55356#msg55356

BTW iTunes 9.2.1 looks safe for the reset as Steven warned iTunes 11 won't be compatible with MB:
http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=12200.msg74177#msg74177

[Abel]

Alumni's tip did not help. I will give redwing's a shot soon and I'll report back. Thanks for the replies!

[xryanx]

I'm having the same problem, has anyone confirmed a solution to this?

Maybe there's a way to sort Artists by a separate tag from the tag being displayed on the iPod? I think that may work as a simple solution, if only I knew which values to adjust in tag editing by Artist?

[phred]

This is an iPod/iTunes/Apple issue.  The only work-around from the MB side would be to delete "The" from all Artist tags.  Not very efficient, I admit.  I've learned to live with the "The" on my iPod.

[Bee-liever]

newer iPod's will automatically apply, as default setting, sorting of Artists and Albums ignoring A, An and The if the Sort-Artist tag is empty
iPod Classic still requires an override in that tag for it to happen.
MB only saves the 'Artist Sort-Order' tag to the Library database  -  even if you have it set up as a Custom tag.
If you do have it defined as a custom tag, auto-complete will populate the field when selecting '...', allowing it to be manually saved.