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<blockquote data-quote="2BitSculptor" data-source="post: 572038" data-attributes="member: 65661"><p>I agree entirely,</p><p></p><p>I've recently also made my opinion known, I just hadn't developed it for a suggestion. I believe MovingPictures has it right... Both MyMusic and MyVideos should follow the logic as well. Use the "The" prefix as part of the name, only ignore the prefix for the purpose of sorting and displaying the list. The renaming convention that MP uses isn't universally understood, so plugins for scraping fanart and such have difficulty performing nicely, and idiosyncrasies crop up in normal operation. There are enough issues between naming conventions and everyday usage in tags, file names, fanart repositories and MP naming forms to make your head spin. </p><p></p><p>I think that visually, the 'official' name of an artist or video should be used, while sorting requires a more practical usage... I really don't like to scroll down a long list of artists or videos with the prefix 'The' at nearly the end of the list, when looking for 'The Band', when it's place makes sense to be in the B's, but common sense and grammar usage requires the 'The' prefix be used, and, as well, pushing the prefix to the end of the name creates difficulties in searches requiring accurate spellings.</p><p></p><p>regards,</p><p></p><p>Chuck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2BitSculptor, post: 572038, member: 65661"] I agree entirely, I've recently also made my opinion known, I just hadn't developed it for a suggestion. I believe MovingPictures has it right... Both MyMusic and MyVideos should follow the logic as well. Use the "The" prefix as part of the name, only ignore the prefix for the purpose of sorting and displaying the list. The renaming convention that MP uses isn't universally understood, so plugins for scraping fanart and such have difficulty performing nicely, and idiosyncrasies crop up in normal operation. There are enough issues between naming conventions and everyday usage in tags, file names, fanart repositories and MP naming forms to make your head spin. I think that visually, the 'official' name of an artist or video should be used, while sorting requires a more practical usage... I really don't like to scroll down a long list of artists or videos with the prefix 'The' at nearly the end of the list, when looking for 'The Band', when it's place makes sense to be in the B's, but common sense and grammar usage requires the 'The' prefix be used, and, as well, pushing the prefix to the end of the name creates difficulties in searches requiring accurate spellings. regards, Chuck [/QUOTE]
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