Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
How artist tags are ordered/displayed
FLACtastic:
Hi
This is only a tiny feature idea, but it would be very nice to have, IMO. My old Sony Walkman used to have it, and I miss it!
It would be great (for me at least!) if the player could disregard the "The" in artist tags - so "The Beatles" would come under "B", "The Doors" under "D" etc.
So looking at the database, under 'Artist' you would see something like:
AC/DC
Beatles, The
Crowded House
Doors, The
I just think this would be a little more intuitive - for example, no one thinks of The Beatles' name as beginning with "T" - your first instinct is to look under "B"!!!
Of course, the obvious workaround is just to re-tag your files. But it would still be nice to not have to do that. :)
JdGordon:
Not this again... :) firstly you are wrong... I know for a fact that the beatles start with a T...
the only corect way to do this is using the sort tag in the id3 info for the file (and only in the database). I'm not sure what the status is but there is a patch to do this (it may even have ben commited already.)
AlexP:
Please search, this has come up hundreds of times. A few objections - what about other languages? What about "Die"? In German it means "The" and therefore should be ignored for sorting, but in English it shouldn't be ignored. Ignoring "The" only is a half-baked solution that only works in one language.
As JdGordon says, the sort tag is the correct way to do this.
Vague Rant:
There's always the folder view; nobody's stopping anyone from having their Beatles folder be named "Beatles, The".
FLACtastic:
Never mind, I've re-tagged all my files. I have no idea what anyone means by "sort tag" or what "patch" is needed. I thought you could choose your language of preference, so didn't think language (The, Die, Le, etc) was an issue.
I also thought there was an international ban on renaming folders, but Vague Rant has very kindly cleared that one up for me.
Thanks. No, really. Thank you, very much. 8)
Edited to remove a needless swear.
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