Option to Ignore "The" in Artist Names

[GregHudgins]

I’d like to see an option in the “Sort Criteria” to allow the word “The” at the beginning of artist names to be ignored for sorting purposes. Example: “The Eagles” should sort under the letter “E” instead of the letter “T”.

Such a small thing.
Otherwise, thanks for building a great audio application. Really nice to see people who know what they’re doing making good products in this space.

Thanks,
Greg

[RunHomeSlow]

See here:

Can the library ignore 'The' in artist names?

Having adopted Audirvana after using JRiver, I am wondering if it is possible to ignore ‘The’ when sorting artist names…so ‘The Beatles’ goes up with the B’s, where I expect it, not down in the T’s with all the other bands starting with ‘The.’ This was a useful feature in JRiver, and easy to do there. Thanks.

[rafs]

GregHudgins: You put it better than I did, and thanks also to RunHomeSlow. A “small thing” indeed…

[Allerwertester]

In general I agree that it would be great to have that option, including other languages’ articles, but you can help yourself if you are familiar with editing your music file’s tags: You can put the artist’s sorting name in there (don’t know the English tag name, chould be something with sorting and artist) and Audirvana will group your artist accordingly. Also I found a field within the artist section in Audirvana where you can type in the sorting name of an artist. But I don’t know if this alters the real file’s tags or the database entries.

Hope that helps!