Automatic ignoring of articles when sorting such as "The, a, an" etc..
See original GitHub issueDescribe 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.
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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.
Sort of solved with the automated sorting name, for game names at least.