[Empeg-general] Re: The word "the"

[jimhogan@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

I've never had a problem with the way the player handles "The"

My tongue-in-cheek comments aside, this is actually something that I agonized over a bit and where I wasn't 100 percent satisfied with the outcome.  I couldn't cope with the idea of using a "Clash, The" syntax -- somehow takes the fun out of things for me -- makes me feel like I'm in a library.  Whether to keep/drop "The" may also come down to how I interact with the player.  I don't think I have *ever* used the remote in-car to search for a name.  Using Playlists--<Artists--<, I just wasn't happy with having lots of artists bunch up under "T" when my brain wanted to find the Clash under "C".

In the end I think it's a matter of whatever floats your boat.  Remembering a recent thread about capitalization (and maybe about how we have a responsibility to the artist to respect upper/lower case) I will say that I don't feel any such responsibility, regardless of what the nuns taught me!

Anyhow, one thing I really like about MP3 TagStudio is how easy it is to change my mind (I may change my mind on "The" yet again!) and recursively change the artist name for multiple albums.  For grins, I just put "remind me never to play piano for them!" in the comment field of every Dead track.  Simple.

 Jim