Any way to ignore 'The' at the beginning of artists & titles? (1 Viewer)

[Topher5000]

Like the title says, is there any way to get MediaPortal to ignore 'The' in artist's names & song titles? That way, The Cult will be between Creedence Clearwater Revival & Danko Jones.
Actually, is there a way to ignore 'The' in movie names?

 

[hwahrmann]

Well, it is done already and pit into the sortable artist field in the database.
Howver it is not used in MP currently.

I was tagging my files in the past to be "Cult, The" and "Beatles, The" for example.
We're in a feature freeze currently, so i won't be able to change it in the near future, but it definitely needs to be done.

 

[Topher5000]

Thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for it.

 

[hwahrmann]

Correction

Latest SVN contains the changes.
When you open Configuration, you'll find a new check box on the Scan Database page.
As a defualt is does the change for: The, Les, Die
you can edit mediaportal.xml and edit the string "artistprefixes" to add more prefixes.

 

[Spragleknas]

Excellent!

 

[zag2me]

hehe gotta love MP feature freezes! Its when the best work gets done

I was wondering about a "new music database" during a release candidate phase as well Of course we are not complaining hehe.

 

[Topher5000]

Sweet! Does this also work for My Videos?