pablolie;186968 Wrote:
> I have noticed that when trying to navigate through my music folders,
> the P - Q - R - S sequence will work alright for the first 3, then take
> me to "The S.." instead of to folders starting with S. The only way to
> arrive at folders starting with S is to scroll - a lot- with the up or
> down buttons. Also, the "T" search will take me to the middle of the T
> folders, seemingly the last one not starting with "the".
>
> Anyone else seen this?
I'm not entirely sure whether I've understood what you're seeing, but I
believe it's working as configured. The word 'The' is in the list of
words to be ignored at the start of the names.
In the 'Behavior settings' (sic), there is a section as follows :
--
ARTICLES TO IGNORE WHEN SORTING
A list of articles ("the", "les", "los", etc.) to ignore at the
beginning of artist, song or album names when sorting. Separate
multiple articles by spaces or leave this list blank to disable this
behavior. Changing this setting will start a rescan of your music
library.
--
On the system here, I've got it set to 'The El La Los Las Le Les' which
means that anything starting with any of those words will be sorted as
if the word wasn't there.
To take an example, 'The Moody Blues' is under 'M', not 'T'. If 'The'
was not in the list above then the artist would be sorted into the 'T'
section. The result of this would be 50 million artists all sorted into
'T'. And more confusion, on my part, because I'd never be quite sure
whether 'Village People' was under 'Village People' or 'The Village
People'. With 'The' ignored, it's simple - they're under 'V' whether
the word is on the front or not. ('Village People' selected purely
because I always say 'YMCA by The Village People', rather than 'YMCA by
Village People', 'cos that just sounds silly).
In my collection here, with 'The' in the above list, I can scroll
through the 'S' section and see entries in this order :
..., 'Seafood', 'The Seahorses', 'Seal', ...
I hope that answers your question a little bit - I think it's just
confusion about that particular setting. Remove the word from the
configured list if you think 'The' is an important qualifier on a name.
--
gerph
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