Omit "The" at the beginning of Album Artist name in Library/Albums

Feature requests
21

The issue here is consistency. You are thinking about “The Beatles”, “The Rolling Stones” etc. where this would make total sense. But now think about other artists, e.g. Sabrina Carpenter and Bruno Mars

If you only look at sorting by sort names, then the sort names here if tagged correctly would be

  1. Beatles, The
  2. Carpenter, Sabrina
  3. Mars, Bruno

and everywhere where artists (not display artists) are sorted, they would be sorted accordingly.

In a list like the one you are talking about, where display artists are used, they would be sorted by that instead.

  1. Bruno Mars
  2. Sabrina Carpenter
  3. The Beatles

If there was now an option to omit the “The” from the display artist, then the sorting would be

  1. (The) Beatles
  2. Bruno Mars
  3. Sabrina Carpenter

So now it is a mixture of the two sortings above. The Beatles are suddenly sorted “correctly”, while Bruno Mars still comes before Sabrina Carpenter. This is inconsistent and might not be understood by users.

Also be aware that is is not a simple matter of ignoring something while sorting, but building a separate database table about that on every sync, because all display names have to be parsed and the articles have to be removed for future sorting.

22

You are correct in a very strict librarian kind of way.
BUT
I would definitely prefer the third result:

And I do tag “album artist” Bruno Mars not Mars Bruno.

If it is a big problem, why not just add a “Display artist” in Library/Albums like there is in Album artists?

23

I guess you wanted to say “why not add ‘sort artist’ in Library/Albums like there is in Album artists”? Because 'display artist" is already there and that is what we are talking abiut :slight_smile:

Why not add ‘sort artist’ as sort option to Library/Albums - this is what Tolriq tried to explain: it is not possible, because an album can have more than one artist, hence more than one sort artist. So if there was an option “sort by sort artist” in the list of albums, which artist would be taken to sort by?

24

Can we please just stop this conversation ?

Resume it all, the issue is not how you tag, no one cares, it’s about how the tags can be used and are used by every one.
The fact that you don’t use sort names does not means other don’t. The fact that you don’t use multiple album artists does not mean others don’t.
So please stop explaining that for your specific way of doing things it would work at the expense of all the rest of the world.

25

As I said earlier on two occasions:
It is not a deal breaker for me!