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

[peter@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

Regardless of how Soup views get implemented on the player, I will not be changing the Artist fields to remove leading "The" or "A"

Soup views deal with articles properly (i.e The Doors gets sorted under D). Or at least, the Artists soup view does; the others currently don't.

One of the better suggestions (though costly in memory) was to allow using an alternate (new) field for sorting.

There is, in fact, a separate ID3v2 tag for "string to sort under in artist lists" (and others for title and album). But the player doesn't use it; keeping every artist string in memory twice would be too much overhead.

Peter