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Ignore "the" in alphabetical files list

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Llorean:
Not really likely. What should be ignored really needs to be considered on a song-by-song (or tag by tag) basis, rather than a "What is the display language" because you can have songs titled in a variety of languages.

So the "Sort tags" solution is much more flexible, since it allows ignoring articles on a per-string basis rather than having a "here's our best guess" list of articles which could ignore things it shouldn't, or not ignore things it should, due to incompleteness or conflicts across languages.

asdfasdf:
Sorry to re-activate this old thread, I think this is an interesting feature request. But of course, simply ignoring "the" would be more of a hack.

Squeezebox server lets the user define a list of words to be ignored when sorting, so one can take care of i18n oneself, where needed.
It would also be the user's decision whether ambigious words like "Die" should be ignored or not. (e.g. "Die Ärzte" vs. "Die Happy")

In an ideal world, there would probably an additional ignore-exceptions list, for seldom cases like these to override ignorance. A user's configuration might look like this:

Ignore: the, a, le, la, les, il, li, der, die, das
Except: die happy, die young

I think this solution is useful and straighforward.

Best regards and thank you very much for this great piece of software :)

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