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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: a2hoo on July 14, 2003, 02:17:44 pm

Title: Request- Ignore "the" as start of the artist name
Post by: a2hoo on July 14, 2003, 02:17:44 pm

I have some songs that have the artist listed as "The Grateful Dead: and others with the artist as "Grateful Dead".  Unfortunately, Grateful Dead is in the G section, The Grateful Dead is in the T section.

I think that MC should either:
1)have an option to ignore "the" in the artist name
or
2)when making the tree of artist names, keep the word there but ignore it when making the list (Grateful Dead and The Grateful Dead would be on top of each other like on my ipod)

When organizing my library,  it would be much easier to see The Grateful Dead near "Grateful Dead: so that I can change the name of one or another and have all songs under the same artist!

Thanks for the great program!


Please dont post a smartlist how to do this.  When I have to program a smartlist, that is where I and many others lose interest!

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" in artist name
Post by: kiwi on July 14, 2003, 02:38:59 pm

This would be a handy feature.  Then we could have the artist displayed as it is on the CD, with the "The", but in the proper order in the system, w/o the "The".

kiwi

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: Ingo on July 14, 2003, 03:02:43 pm

great idea... please include support for international articles. German would be 'der', 'die' and 'das'.
Especially great for bands like 'die laughing' (yes. this one really exists in my database)
Ask Kingsparta about his gonkulator... (or look around in the forum for it).
It won't work. do it by hand.  just my thoughts.

Ingo

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: a2hoo on July 14, 2003, 03:29:47 pm

it wil work...

why can the ipod do it?

don't be rude.. it int appreciated

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: KingSparta on July 14, 2003, 03:34:29 pm

I Will Wip Up A Plugin That Will Remove "The" Or ", The" if thats what you Wish.

Bt you can remove "The" in chart finder plug-In

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: a2hoo on July 14, 2003, 03:42:50 pm

That would be amazing if you could make a plugin!!!

The chart finder plug in is certainly great, though does much more than i Want

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: KingSparta on July 14, 2003, 04:11:25 pm

if i have time tomorrow I will wip something up for you.

Title: Re: Request- Ignore "the" as start of th
Post by: nameless on July 15, 2003, 10:07:56 am

Quote

I think that MC should either:
1)have an option to ignore "the" in the artist name
or
2)when making the tree of artist names, keep the word there but ignore it when making the list (Grateful Dead and The Grateful Dead would be on top of each other like on my ipod)

I think this has been tossed around here before.  Have you considered naming your media files along the lines of "Grateful Dead, The", instead of "The Grateful Dead"?  This would make them appear in a more sensible sort order in the file system (i.e. in Explorer), as well as in Media Center.  No plug-ins or consternation needed.