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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 543481" data-attributes="member: 18896">Added by fforde @ <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=700" target="_blank">Issue 700 - moving-pictures - Add third title sorting option to REMOVE preceding articles - Project Hosting on Google Code</a>The current configuration option to enable/disable the &quot;Articles for Removal&quot; doesn't actually remove anything, so as per the above link you select between option #1 (True) and option #2 (False). After implementation of issue 700, there will be a 3rd option to remove the actual prefixes, so that sequel titles will sort more as expected for those that prefer it that way (like me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />).--------------------------Ok I finally setup the wife with MPC-HC, so that she can keep watching her stuff, and I can mess around with MovingPictures plugin via RDP <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />So as I'm studying the &quot;Advanced Settings&quot; -&gt; &quot;MediaPortal GUI&quot; -&gt; &quot;Sorting&quot; -&gt; &quot;Articles for Removal&quot;I have the default: &quot;the|a|an|ein|das|die|der|les|la|le|el|une|de|het&quot; in there.But when I force &quot;The Art Of War&quot; to be reimported (or update the sortby field), it doesn't seem to use the above entries to remove the &quot;The&quot; part (and yes, the setting to 'fix' the sortby field is set to True).Title = &quot;The Art of War&quot;Sorty By =&quot;art of war the&quot;Perhaps in the code, the conversion from &quot;The Art of War&quot; into &quot;Art of War, The&quot; is done before the &quot;Articles for Removal&quot; step is done. I had already surrendered myself to the fact that I would have to go over my entire collection and manually correct all the SortBy fields, but it does look like I stumbled upon a little bug.I still had debug logging enabled, but nothing shows in there that relates to this, so for a developer, the steps to reproduce are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">add file &quot;The Art Of War.avi&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">wait for auto approval steps to finish</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">goto &quot;Movie Manager&quot; tab</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">locate &quot;The Art Of War&quot; movie</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">look at the &quot;Sort By&quot; field</li>
</ul></blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 543481, member: 18896"] [b]Added by fforde @[/b] [url=http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=700]Issue 700 - moving-pictures - Add third title sorting option to REMOVE preceding articles - Project Hosting on Google Code[/url] The current configuration option to enable/disable the "Articles for Removal" doesn't actually remove anything, so as per the above link you select between option #1 (True) and option #2 (False). After implementation of issue 700, there will be a 3rd option to remove the actual prefixes, so that sequel titles will sort more as expected for those that prefer it that way (like me :D). -------------------------- Ok I finally setup the wife with MPC-HC, so that she can keep watching her stuff, and I can mess around with MovingPictures plugin via RDP :P So as I'm studying the "Advanced Settings" -> "MediaPortal GUI" -> "Sorting" -> "Articles for Removal" I have the default: "the|a|an|ein|das|die|der|les|la|le|el|une|de|het" in there. But when I force "The Art Of War" to be reimported (or update the sortby field), it doesn't seem to use the above entries to remove the "The" part (and yes, the setting to 'fix' the sortby field is set to True). Title = "The Art of War" Sorty By ="art of war the" Perhaps in the code, the conversion from "The Art of War" into "Art of War, The" is done before the "Articles for Removal" step is done. I had already surrendered myself to the fact that I would have to go over my entire collection and manually correct all the SortBy fields, but it does look like I stumbled upon a little bug. I still had debug logging enabled, but nothing shows in there that relates to this, so for a developer, the steps to reproduce are: [LIST] [*]add file "The Art Of War.avi" [*]wait for auto approval steps to finish [*]goto "Movie Manager" tab [*]locate "The Art Of War" movie [*]look at the "Sort By" field [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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