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Emom

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Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« on: January 10, 2015, 03:04:31 pm »

I'm a newbie and can't find anything on how to do this easily , e.g. Make the Artist "Rolling Stones" rather than "The Rolling Stones". Do I need to go and change each tag of each album of each artist?
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Re: Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2015, 04:01:22 pm »

Search the Wiki:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Tree_%26_View_Settings

You can use "ignore articles" to achieve the desired effect in most cases.
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Re: Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2015, 04:09:48 pm »

If you want to actually remove "the" instead of ignoring it, you can use find and replace.
- fist highlight desired files in MC
- Right click-->Library Tools-->Find and replace
- Make sure artist and album artist are checked
- replace "The " with nothing

There are also expressions you can use to move "the" behind the artist to make it "Rolling Stones, The"
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Re: Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2015, 04:42:59 pm »

If you want to actually remove "the" instead of ignoring it, you can use find and replace.
- fist highlight desired files in MC
- Right click-->Library Tools-->Find and replace
- Make sure artist and album artist are checked
- replace "The " with nothing

There are also expressions you can use to move "the" behind the artist to make it "Rolling Stones, The"

What's to stop this from removing 'the' from then middle of album titles like "Roll the Bones" or in the artist names like "Mike and the Mechanics" for example?
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Re: Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2015, 04:49:30 pm »

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What's to stop this from removing 'the' from then middle of album titles like "Roll the Bones" or in the artist names like "Mike and the Mechanics" for example?
Nothing

You would have to select the files that need the 'find and replace' and not apply it to your entire library.
An alternative would be to replace "The Rolling Stones" with "Rolling Stones"
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Re: Easy way to remove "The" from Artist name?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 08:17:26 am »

Thanks all for the comments. It appears that the "Ignore Articles" function under "Sorting" does 99% of what I wanted to achieve.
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