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Windows => JRiver Media Center 34 for Windows => Topic started by: Sky King on April 28, 2025, 06:27:22 am

Title: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Sky King on April 28, 2025, 06:27:22 am
Is it possible to get MC to stop paying attention to leading punctuation marks in movie titles that include symbols like ' or ( and just sort on the first alphanumeric character in the title instead?  I know, the simply fix is to remove the punctuation but I'd like to keep it in the title.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: JimH on April 28, 2025, 08:40:11 am
MC can ignore articles.  It's a setting.  Options page has a search window.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Sky King on April 28, 2025, 08:56:45 am
You guys have thought of everything!  This got me 99% of the way as it appears to work for articles but not punctuation marks.  I'll delve into it a bit deeper on my end.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Awesome Donkey on April 28, 2025, 09:13:57 am
Having a separate ignore characters option to handle things like punctuation marks and other common characters might be a good addition. Personally, I like seeing the articles but I don't really like seeing things like " and ' and ( at the top of the list so having a separate option to ignore those would be very appealing for me.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Moe on April 28, 2025, 09:30:45 am
Having a separate ignore characters option to handle things like punctuation marks and other common characters might be a good addition. Personally, I like seeing the articles but I don't really like seeing things like " and ' and ( at the top of the list so having a separate option to ignore those would be very appealing for me.

We already have that functionality, search the options for Articles and you'll see a list.  You can add stuff like ' and " to it and it will ignore them and if you don't want it to ignore "a","an" or "the" just remove them.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Sky King on April 28, 2025, 09:39:27 am
We already have that functionality, search the options for Articles and you'll see a list.  You can add stuff like ' and " to it and it will ignore them and if you don't want it to ignore "a","an" or "the" just remove them.

It didn't work for me.  I tried to add a -  '  - to the list and the sort still put that file at the top of the sort.  The file in question is 'klute'

CORRECTION:  It did work for me!  I failed to tick the check box.  Thank you to everyone!
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Sky King on April 29, 2025, 11:36:54 am
As I have several clients looking at the one server, it would be nice to have the program save and remember the "ignore articles" settings and list across all clients possibly saving it as a system-wide setting.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: tzr916 on April 29, 2025, 01:57:49 pm
Did you try the following:
After you've made changes on the Server machine (and verified they are working on the Server), go to the Client machine and RESTART JRiver MC... The Client should pick up the changes.

Note: This doesn't work for things like Audio or Video settings, or JRVR settings, or startup settings, etc.
Title: Re: Sort order for movies in standard view
Post by: Sky King on April 30, 2025, 06:02:52 am
Thanks tzr916.  I probably should have modified the server first but, as luck would have it, I left it for last.  If I have the need to modify the settings once again, I'll try the server first and then restart the clients to check it out.