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iSleipnir

Mar 4 2006, 17:18

Under my album list I have everything alphabetical by artist but bands that start with "the" like THE Beatles, or THE Skatalites get throw under the letter T. How would I change this so that the album list excludes the word "the", and places these bands under b, or s, etc.?
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Thanks for any help.

-Slep

Frank Bicking

Mar 4 2006, 17:21

In your album list pattern, replace %artist% by

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$if($strcmp($left(%artist%,4),The ),$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4)),%artist%)

iSleipnir

Mar 4 2006, 17:38

Wait, where is the "album list pattern"? I see under components "Album list" and "Album list panel"

iSleipnir

Mar 4 2006, 21:58

Can anyone help me out? I'm not sure where to type in the string. Can someone be very specific? Looking at the menues I'm seeing a lot of places where that code could fit and I have no idea where to put it. Thanks

-Slep

Here are the two places I see where I could put code, but I still don't know where to put the info even in the pannels.
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rectangle

Mar 4 2006, 23:13

QUOTE(iSleipnir @ Mar 5 2006, 01:58 PM)

Double click 'By Artist:' in "Album list" and/or "Album list panel" and paste it there.

iSleipnir

Mar 5 2006, 00:24

I pasted in the code into both places and it's still not working. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

david_dl

Mar 5 2006, 01:05

QUOTE(iSleipnir @ Mar 5 2006, 07:24 PM)

I pasted in the code into both places and it's still not working. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Check "Use custom sorting" and paste it there.
Edit: you'll probably want to sort by more than just artist. This is what i use:

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$if($stricmp($left($put(temp,%ARTIST%),4),The ),$right($get(temp),$sub($len($get(temp)),4)),$get(temp)) - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - $num(%DISCNUMBER%,3) - $num(%TRACKNUMBER%,3) - %TITLE%

rectangle

Mar 5 2006, 03:28

QUOTE(iSleipnir @ Mar 5 2006, 04:24 PM)

I pasted in the code into both places and it's still not working. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

From the screen shot above you are using the Album list panel. Have you right clicked somewhere on the panel and clicked 'Refesh tree'?

By the way, I use:

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$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,4),'the '),$substr(%artist%,5,$len(%artist%))' (The)',%artist%)|[%album%]|[[%disc%.][$num(%tracknumber%,2).] ]$if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)

iSleipnir

Mar 5 2006, 03:44

I got it working using the custom sorting option. Thanks for all of the help and replies!

-Slep

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