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Sounds good. Wonder what's gonna happen with the band "The The"? Regarding French Articles: What about german, spanish, etc articles? Of course I would like to see them treated as well. BUT: what if an article in one language happens to be a regular word in another language? Example: in german, the definite articles are called "Der, Die, Das" as in "Die Toten Hosen" which should be sorted under "T" and which I have in my collection as "Toten Hosen, Die". But "to die" is of course a regular english word and the Band "Die Pretty" should be listed under D, not P. One idea could be to remove a ", The" at the end instead of "The" from the front, but even this is not a foolproof solution. The only solution that really works 100% is one that I have used for all my music databases in the past ever since I started cataloging music: The Artist Field must be split in two, and sorting is done on the second field. Like this: Field 1_____Field 2 (Sort) Elvis______[b]P[/b]resley The_______[b]B[/b]eatles The Alan___[b]P[/b]arsons Project __________[b]P[/b]ink Floyd Manfred___[b]M[/b]ann's Earth Band __________[b]M[/b]artha And The Muffins Die_______[b]T[/b]oten Hosen __________[b]D[/b]ie Pretty etc. So Field 1 is a prefix field that holds articles and/or the first name of an artist. The Problem is that only the human user can do this splitting and there is no support for this neither in ID3 Tags, nor CDDB, nor iTunes, Amazon etc. etc, so this would be a totally non-standard approach and quite a bit of extra work for the user - but it would worl perfectly! The nice thing is that this extra "non-sort" field is always in front of the sort field and could therefore be totally optional. If you don't use the first field, you have the same standard solution as today, but if you do use it, all eJukebox would have to do is display this field in front of the normal artist field! So if Audiosoft would add this new field, then no user would notice any difference until they started actually using it.... With this system, you can even do nice things as keep albums by a band together when they slightly change their name over time: And You Will Know Us By The___[b]T[/b]rail Of Dead _____________________________[b]T[/b]rail Of Dead would both be under "T" instead of once under "A. "A Clan Of Xymox" and "Xymox" could both be together under X, etc...
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