browing artists: sort order for objects with "the"

[hk242]

Sorry if this question has already been answered, it’s hard to search for a “the” and “artist, order, sort, browse” was not successful.

Browsing artits on client-side (Soundbridge, but also itunes-Client), the “the” seems to be treated differently, e.g. “The Beatles” is under “B”, not “T” (mp3 tag is as expected)

Is there a way to change this behaviour ?

thx

[rpedde]

@hk242 wrote:

Sorry if this question has already been answered, it’s hard to search for a “the” and “artist, order, sort, browse” was not successful.

Browsing artits on client-side (Soundbridge, but also itunes-Client), the “the” seems to be treated differently, e.g. “The Beatles” is under “B”, not “T” (mp3 tag is as expected)

Is there a way to change this behaviour ?

thx

Not currently. Hope so soon.

[hk242]

Is it part of the soundbridge or the server ?

[rpedde]

@hk242 wrote:

Is it part of the soundbridge or the server ?

Typically, the client does this (iTunes does, sb doesn’t), but it *could* be done on the server, so I’ll probably do it on the server just to help out weak clients.

– Ron

[dfsuther]

Any chance you could also implement correct Mc and Mac sorting?

The rule (last time I asked a professional librarian) is that names beginning with Mc or Mac come before all the other M’s but after all the Ls. The rule applies whether or not there’s a space, but requires a capital letter at the beginning of the rest of the name. So: McThud, Mc Thud, MacThud, and Mac Thud are all actually the same name and should sort identically (ahead of the Ms), but Macthud doesn’t follow the McMac rule, and sorts normally.

To complete the set of examples, Mac thud would follow the Mc/Mac rule, but is just plain incorrectly capitalized. It should really be Mac Thud, instead.

Dean

[S80_UK]

@dfsuther wrote:

The rule (last time I asked a professional librarian) is that names beginning with Mc or Mac come before all the other M’s but after all the Ls.

Hmmm – interesting…. I guess if your librarian didn’t have a surname beginning MAB as I do. In UK phonebooks at least, Mc and Mac are treated as identical, but are placed (I think correctly) between Mab… and Mad…

Cheers.

Les.

[hk242]

@rpedde wrote:

@hk242 wrote:

Is it part of the soundbridge or the server ?

Typically, the client does this (iTunes does, sb doesn’t), but it *could* be done on the server, so I’ll probably do it on the server just to help out weak clients.

– Ron

Very strange – my sb definitely does it (firmware 3.0.44)…

It would be great to change this behaviour…

hk

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