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: matthieu_gall...@yahoo.fr
          Reporter: nsem...@mailfence.com
  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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