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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: snareaddict on October 07, 2007, 03:39:21 pm

Title: Ignoring articles when sorting
Post by: snareaddict on October 07, 2007, 03:39:21 pm

I noticed that MC12 is able to ignore articles (the, a, an) when sorting. This is good. But I'd like to suggest to either add a few more here or make this list configurable. For example, German artist names may begin with German articles (der, die, das). Also, I'd like to filter out prefixes like "DJ" and "MC" which occurr very often in songs, because I'm listening alot to techno, dnb, hiphop and stuff like that. All the DJs get sorted under "D" which can be really annoying.

Any chance that feature will be added in a future version? Can the same be achieved by a plugin? I'm a programmer, so I would even consider to make a plugin myself. Would it be very difficult?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Ignoring articles when sorting
Post by: gappie on October 07, 2007, 03:53:32 pm

i agree..
posted this a while back
"it would be very hip if there would be a place were i could add articles to ignore so that the visconti movie il gattopardo would be under the g, the movie der untergang under u, de domine under do etc. would make it a bit less US orientated.  Smiley "

the idea to make a plugin is interesting, but for now i dont see how.

but when we ask nicely and oft then maybe someday the nice people of jrivers will think about it and put it on a list.
 ;)

Title: Re: Ignoring articles when sorting
Post by: yooz on October 07, 2007, 06:01:31 pm

guess who asked for this feature a while ago?!
;-)

Title: Re: Ignoring articles when sorting
Post by: gappie on October 09, 2007, 10:30:24 am

maybe it would be nice to place these in the language files.  :P

just ripping La Strada.

Title: Re: Ignoring articles when sorting
Post by: hit_ny on October 09, 2007, 12:04:30 pm

Nice idea and you got my support for it.