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Bug 336805 - Library - "The " in artist name issue
Library - "The " in artist name issue
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133444
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
0.9.3
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-01 10:11 UTC by David Jaša
Modified: 2006-04-01 10:48 UTC
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Description David Jaša 2006-04-01 10:11:09 UTC 
Some files are tagged in artist field "Artist" and another ones "The Artist" .
There can be 2 essential issues with this:

1. Sorting in library: now "The Artist" is sorted among another artists
beginning with T, though should be sorted as "Artist, the" among A artists
2. If there are are more albums, one tagged as "Artist" and another as "The
Artist" - this may cause splitting one artist into two (unfortunately I myself
don't have it confirmed)

Proposed solution: Treat "Artist" and "The Artist" as the same one and use
"Artist, the" form while sorting

Other information:
Comment 1 James "Doc" Livingston 2006-04-01 10:48:52 UTC 
This is a duplicate of bug 133444.

It hasn't been done yet because a naive implemention will cause internationalisation issues, and has the potential to horribly break when the user has tracks in a non-English language.

The real solution is to use "sorting tags", such as MusicBrainz provides. No-one has implemented this yet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133444 ***