Sort Should Disregard Certain Words

[mlissner]

Binary package hint: banshee

When sorting on many fields, the word "the" should be disregarded from the sort order. For example, when sorting by artist, I would expect The Beatles to be under B, not under T.

Similarly, it might make sense to list "The Beatles" as "Beatles, The".

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

 status fixcommitted

This is already available in the latest Banshee release. You can set
the "sort by" title, album, artist fields in the property editor, under
the "Sorting" tab.

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

I'm confused. I'm running v. 1.6b2, and I don't see anything like that. Am I behind the times?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

This should be in 1.5.1, so I'm marking it as fix released. Please see the tag editor dialog, under the "Sorting" tab.

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

Is there a way to change the default behavior to ignore certain words for all fields? If not, this seems like a very difficult solution. I have about fifty different artists that start with the word "The". I don't want to have to adjust all of these manually.