ssoler Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Hello. There is a problem when sorting albums by name. If the name has an article at the beginning, it its sorted by the first letter of the second word . For example, "The Best of George Benson" is sorted in letter B list of albums (instead in letter T). Or "A Tribute to..." is sorted in letter T, instead of letter A. I can't find how to change this in configuration options. Thak you. And congratulations for the app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Yes, that is the correct way to sort titles with either a definite ("the") or indefinite ("a", "an") article at the start, saving people having to add the article to the end (e.g. "Smiths, The"). It doesn't work for filename sorting unfortunately. It is not currently an option for people who want pure computer-style ASCII sorting though. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DervishD Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Andre, I have to dissent here. That's correct in English, and only if you don't consider the article as part of the name, which is a quite subjective matter. For people like me, who have tags in many languages (including English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, etc.) this is NOT the correct way of sorting at all. The only way of sorting which works for all languages is one which doesn't consider any word special, or one which allows the user to specify the set of words which should be ignored when sorting. I posted a suggestion a week ago or so, related to this problem. If you only have tags in English, the current behaviour may be useful. When you have many languages, it's not useful at all. Given how configurable Poweramp is, this should be optional, and IMHO it shouldn't be difficult to implement at all, although I understand Max is quite busy at the moment in much more important things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Yes, I agree other languages do need to be supported - I rather assumed they were to be honest, my bad. But in English, the technically correct way to alpha-sort textual titles is to remove any initial article first (and brackets too, I believe). As a Feature Request, an option (including a list of words to count as articles) would be a good idea. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DervishD Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Andre, as far as I know, this article-removing doesn't happen in song titles, so even if it's correct in English (is not my mother tongue, I won't argue that), it only happens for Artists and Albums. That's confusing, having one kind of sort for some items, another sort for others. And brackets doesn't seem to be removed, at least on my phone but maybe I'm not recalling it correctly, maybe it only happens only with song names too. Maybe other languages are supported, I don't know. Probably if I switch my phone language to Spanish I will have Spanish articles removed (even though I don't think that's correct in Spanish sorting for titles), but that's not the real problem. Thing is, I think most people have music at least in their native languages AND English, so supporting just one language at a time doesn't fix the issue. IMHO it's better to be able to configure it, and remove the words you prefer when sorting (or none at all). Let's see what Max thinks about this Thanks for your reply, as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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