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Ignoring "the" and "a" when sorting artists

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JimZipCode:

--- Quote from: mlt on February 14, 2011, 05:45:29 PM ---In spite of IRC resolution, there is a demand for this feature. Sometimes it is easier to enable single feature rather then cleaning entire collection.
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As you say, there is demand for it.

However, a couple weeks later, I'd like to acknowledge that I now appreciate how fully the AlbumArtist tag (and the Mp3tag program) address the issue.  It was laborious to go thru all the songs and re-tag them, and initially it was annoying.  But you sort by Artist and you can do whole swathes of files at the same time; and honestly it was exactly the kind of fiddling around with files to get everything exactly right, that someone who's going to choose Rockbox will enjoy doing anyway.  It was a pain in the ass, but not TOO bad a pain in the ass.

I only had 16-20Gb of music to tag, and most of it was whole albums (or mixes).  I can see it would be a much bigger PITA for larger collections.  So, as you say, there is demand.  But I'm good, now.

Llorean:
I think one point that's missed is that every new feature makes Rockbox slightly bigger, and contain slightly more stuff that can accidentally get broken later when adding other new features.

This stuff adds up, and can have a detrimental effect going forward in both how hard it is to improve Rockbox further, and in how much RAM the Rockbox binary occupies.

It's beneficial to have one solution that can meet everyone's needs, rather than several different tools that solve the same problem, sometimes in lesser ways. "Ignoring 'The'" is one of these 'lesser ways' that can only really meet a very limited subset of needs. If every single "well you could also just have an option to do this that met my case, even if it doesn't work for everyone" solution went in, Rockbox would probably already have about half again as many options as it has, and probably feel even more overwhelming to new people.

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