https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454803
Bug ID: 454803
Summary: Introduce option to ignore leading "The"'s of band
names in Artists view
Product: Elisa
Version: 21.12.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Elisa sorts the names of bands as-is, i.e. "The Beatles" gets sorted under "T".
The CLI music player ncmpcpp has the nice option "ignore_leading_the" in order
to sort "The Beatles" more naturally under "B". In effect, this sorts the
band's entry as if the string were "Beatles, The". This does not clump about 20
bands starting with "The" under the sort-heading "T" together.
With this option introduced in the general settings, the users also do not need
to manually rename bands starting with "The" manually. This would sort band
names more naturally.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Put a band with a name that starts with "The" in your database
2. Go to Artists view
OBSERVED RESULT
The band is sorted under "T".
EXPECTED RESULT
With the proposed option (Ignore leading "The" in band names), the bands would
be sorted more naturally like "Beatles, The" under "B" instead of "The Beatles"
under "T".
The user-visible label of the band name in Artists view would still show "The
Beatles" as-is from the metadata, but the sorting algorithm would handle it
like a list-entry starting with "B".
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 36
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
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