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Title: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: gakaudio on January 06, 2013, 06:31:30 pm: Hi All,

Question may have been addressed before but couldn't find it. I am struggling with getting media center 17 to display Band names the way I want. Specifically, I want bands such as “The Black Crows” or “The Black Keys” to be listed under the letter B when I sort alphabetically. Therefore, for media center to show the “The” but to disregard it when determining the alphabetic priority. I hope this is clear. iTunes does this automatically I believe and I assume that media center 17 can as well provided I give it the proper instructions. Thanks for your help, Garth
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: JimH on January 06, 2013, 06:43:09 pm: In Tools/Options, there is a search window at the bottom. Search for "articles".
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: vagskal on January 06, 2013, 06:43:16 pm: There is an option to ignore "the" when sorting. I think you can find it in options if you search for "ignore" (otherwise search for "the").
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: vagskal on January 06, 2013, 06:43:53 pm: Jim beat me to it by seconds.
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: gakaudio on January 06, 2013, 06:49:02 pm: Wow, That was a very fast and helpful reply. Thanks a lot for addressing my question. I am an imediate fan of this forum.

Thanks, Garth
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: rjm on January 07, 2013, 12:35:59 am: Quote from: gakaudio on January 06, 2013, 06:49:02 pm
Wow, That was a very fast and helpful reply. Thanks a lot for addressing my question. I am an imediate fan of this forum.

Thanks, Garth

What's really cool, which you may not know, is that Jim is the company founder, is retired, and answered your question 2 minutes after you posted it on a Sunday.
Title: Re: Dealing with Bands (or Artists) that start with "The"
Post by: Marc on February 13, 2014, 09:05:47 pm: You know when some smartypants snipes about using the search function of the board? Well, I was about to give up because I'd been trying every possible permutation of searching for how to do exactly what the OP asked...when I finally stumbled upon this thread. Shouldn't this be posted in the FAQ? I'd imagine that there are a lot of new users that must ask exactly this question...

Thanks!