Amarok is inconsistent in its treatment of the word "the"

[Conan]

Binary package hint: amarok

At the moment amarok ignores the prefix "The" on artist names when sorting the music collection but when adding to the playlist all artists beginning with "The" are grouped together.
In the short term amarok should be consistent with itself about its treatment of the word "The" and either always ignore it, at least for the same tag (eg. for artists it's ignored but for albums it's not).
In the longer term it would be brilliant to see an option for ignoring "The", possibly customisable for which situations this should be done in.

I am using Ubuntu Jaunty (development branch) 9.04 with amarok version 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu2

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

To increase the chances of getting this improvement into the next version of amarok, please file a copy of this bug in the upstream bug tracker (available at this URL: https://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi ). Once this is done, click the link "Also affects project", select amarok and paste the URL to the upstream bug report you have created. By doing this, the Ubuntu developers will get a notification when/if the amarok developers fix the issue / implement this feature and it can then be merged into Ubuntu.

[Dan McArdle (zingermc)]

I believe that the source file responsible for this behavior is "src/collection/sqlcollection/OrganizeCollectionDialog.cpp", particularly the "ignoreThe()" function.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

FWIW, this is solved upstream in 2.2-SVN.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

I remembered seeing some discussion on solving this on amarok-devel a while back but couldn't find a link. Conan/Dan, please report back when Amarok 2.2 is released about the status of this bug.

Thanks!

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed in 2.2.