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Automatic ignoring of articles when sorting such as "The, a, an" etc..

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Describe the solution you’d like With issue 84 you can manually solve this problem by changing the sorting name field, but to be able to automatically do this at scale on an entire library would be fantastic. It was already noted that Steam and other popular library systems do this automatically for “the” at least.

For example

Mario Bros 2
The Jackbox Party Pack 7
The Legend of Korra

Should be sorted as

The Jackbox Party Pack 7
The Legend of Korra
Mario Bros 2

By the way thank you so much for this software, especially @JosefNemec for supporting it so much. It’s grown incredibly the past few years.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:8 (7 by maintainers)

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grnassarcommented, Dec 8, 2020

Yes, I think that solution is what #154 had in mind. It’s closed, but the feature doesn’t seem to be active at the moment.

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Jeshibucommented, Nov 25, 2022

Sort of solved with the automated sorting name, for game names at least.

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