Article in "ARTIST" sort

[TheOldPresbyope]

I'm not sure what "sort the artists correctly" means. Does that mean

• Dave Brubeck
  
• ...
  
• Dave Matthews
  
• ...
  

 
or

• Brubeck, Dave
  
• ...
  
• Matthews, Dave
  
• ...
  

I think like an encyclopedist and would tend toward the latter but it does look a bit odd when interleaved with the names of these artists' groups

• Brubeck, Dave
  
• ...
  
• (The) Dave Brubeck Quartet
  
• ...
  
• (The) Dave Matthews Band
  
• ...
  
• Matthews, Dave
  
• ...
  

Then there's "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" which kinda works no matter what  

I like ignoring the leading "the" and "a" in a sort and think making it possible to specify the list of such "noise" words would be useful.

I don't think there's a single scheme which will suit everyone's taste. Even if we take advantage of the sort fields available in metadata (MPD's artist/artistsort, for example) there's the likelihood that some tracks in a collection will not have been completely tagged with the result that we might see

• Brubeck, Dave
  
• ...
  
• Dave Brubeck
  
• ...
  
• (The) Dave Brubeck Quartet
  
• ...
  
• Dave Matthews
  
• (The) Dave Matthews Band
  
• ...
  
• Matthews, Dave
  
• ...
  
  

Just my 2-cents worth.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

Bottom line is that the majority of major player software ignores articles by default and many offer it as an on/off option or in some cases for example JRiver IIRC they provide a method of specifying article tokens in an XML file or something like that.

Since its a relatively easy enhancement and there have been several requests for also allowing non-English article excludes I'm inclined to just implement it for 5.0 and put control in the users hands :-)

Same with the ArtistSort and AlbumSort tags. It's a trivial enhancement and for those users that have or want to populate these tags, moOde will automatically use them in place of Artist/AlbumArtist and Album. I'm assuming that these tags are meant to be global overrides for the Artist/AlbumArtist and Album tags.

[TheOldPresbyope]

I'm assuming that these tags are meant to be global overrides for the Artist/AlbumArtist and Album tags.

I concur.

[swizzle]

I'm assuming that these tags are meant to be global overrides for the Artist/AlbumArtist and Album tags.

I concur.

That’s how I assume it’s meant as well, though maybe for non-sorted list display (e.g. the play queue) you’re meant to use the regular Artist/AlbumArtist and Album?

[Tim Curtis]

Right, the play queue is not sorted by moOde. When items are initially added MPD just adds them in Track order. The Artist, Album, Title etc tags are used.

[leglubert]

Okay,
well understood, I'll try to find my happiness elsewhere

thanks for reading me, but not understood.

:-(

[Tim Curtis]

Don't worry, the ignore articles feature has already been added to moOde 5.

You can have "The Dave Brubeck Quartet" sorted into the T's if you like.

[leglubert]

:-) :-) :-) :-) (...)

[leglubert]

Don't worry, the ignore articles feature has already been added to moOde 5.

You can have "The Dave Brubeck Quartet" sorted into the T's if you like.

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Amitiés
leglubert

PS: where is this option ?

EDIT: Foud :-)

[Tim Curtis]

Nice :-)