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Title: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: davemccorkle on May 16, 2018, 08:42:57 am

Would love some help on what should be a simple thing.

I alphabetize the music in my library the way i prefer and do not want the iPod to "fix" what I have spent countless hours doing.  What I mean by this is that bands that start with "The", I have changed already.  I have tried both checked and unchecked for the "Ignore articles" box and still the music on the iPod has been reordered.

Example:  "The Cure" in my library it is "Cure, The" as well as every other band that starts with "The", however the iPod makes it "The Cure" no matter which way i have the ignore article box checked.

I have also tried deleting the band off the device and re-syncing it back and the iPod still messes with the naming.

How do you prevent the device from doing it's own alphabetizing?

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: davemccorkle on May 16, 2018, 10:38:47 am

Update:  The geniuses that are JRiver have already solved my issue. 

I simply select all the artists in question "on the iPod" and did a file clean move article.

I was not sure that would work but it did so no more issue.

Thanks

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: davemccorkle on May 16, 2018, 10:45:05 am

Well I may have spoke too soon.

The iPod changes it back after JRiver fixes it.

Ugh

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: RD James on May 16, 2018, 11:33:04 am

Is there an option in the menus on the iPod for this?
It's been so long since I used an actual iPod that I really have no idea.

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: davemccorkle on May 16, 2018, 12:55:34 pm

I have tried that with no luck at all.  Apple wants to tell me how to alphabetize! 

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: ~OHM~ on May 16, 2018, 04:39:49 pm

maybe because that's their name.....just saying

Title: Re: Ignore Article "The" issue with iPods
Post by: leezer3 on May 16, 2018, 05:09:25 pm

I'd look at subtly altering the The, or perhaps the spacing :)

This really depends on how much effort you're looking to put into this, but (for example), you could change the 'e' to one of the accented variants:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/based/U+0045
Changing the space type might also work:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/based/U+0020

I have no idea how good the unicode support is on the iPod though, or how aggressive the Apple algorithm is.....