Bug 279688

Summary:	Make ignoring "The" prefix when alphabetising/sorting optional or/and configurable
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	list-ener
Component:	Collection Browser	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ralf-engels, tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.4.1
Target Milestone:	2.5
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description list-ener 2011-08-08 20:23:04 UTC

Version:           2.4.1 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

Collation that ignores "the" is a bad idea for music collections that are very likely to be international (I have "Die Ärzte", "Die Moulinettes", "Die Sterne" followed by "The Drums"... and that's just two languages taken at random).

So please do make the type of collation configurable: at least with the option to set it to strict alphabetisation (which I would advocate to be the default for the reason above) and maybe, in addition, with a configurable list of ignored prefixes.

(Note that there is a recent bug that claims the ignoring of "the" does not work (#261184). I can confirm that it does on my installation - unfortunately!)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have entries with "definite articles" in different languages in the collection


Actual Results:  
2. Be surprised

Expected Results:  
2. Don't be surprised. See a consistent language-agnostic collation.

Comment 1 Ralf Engels 2012-06-03 19:22:14 UTC

Id3-tags have special tags for sorting.

For example, the artitst could be "Die Ärzte", but the tag that is used for sorting has "Ärzte, Die"

So, would you rather change your feature request to: "Amarok should support sorting tags"?

Comment 2 Tuomas Nurmi 2024-03-23 18:16:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 277067 ***