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dmented7

Jan 11 2007, 12:05

Hi.. I am trying to find out how foobar can display artist who have 'the' at the beginning, e.g. The Smiths, to display at 'S' rather than 'T', like iTunes does.
I'm sure it's quite a simple fix... but I just cant seem to find out how to do it.... GRRR

Anyone have any ideas ...? (apart from having to change to 'Smiths, The)

Octavian

Jan 11 2007, 12:28

QUOTE(dmented7 @ Jan 11 2007, 20:05)

Anyone have any ideas ...? (apart from having to change to 'Smiths, The)

I have made something like this:

I created a tag named: %THE% with the value "The". The tag I applied only for the artist with The, like THE Prodigy, THE Cranberries, etc...

In the tag field named %ARTIST% I deleted "The". So for "The Prodigy" I have only "Prodigy".

Than in the ARTIST column for ColumnUI I have this scripts codes:
For DISPLAY:
[%THE% ]%artist%

For SORT field:
%artist%%album%%DISCNUMBER%

Sorry my English, is not my native language

wraithdu

Jan 11 2007, 12:36

In your Artist column sort order, replace %artist% with -

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),'The'),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))
,
[%artist%]
)

dmented7

Jan 11 2007, 14:09

Thanks both of you, it worked!

2Pacalypse

Jan 12 2007, 03:20

QUOTE(dmented7 @ Jan 11 2007, 20:09)

Thanks both of you, it worked!

hmm i tried in on the group display in scpl and it didnt work

Hakubo

Jan 12 2007, 04:06

QUOTE(wraithdu @ Jan 11 2007, 21:36)

In your Artist column sort order, replace %artist% with -

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),'The'),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))
,
[%artist%]
)

Ever listened to Therion?

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,4),'The '),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))
,
[%artist%]
)

Funkdude

Jan 12 2007, 11:45

Thanks to all, I had been looking for a way to do this. However, is there a way to do it in the albumlist?

Valdoran

Jan 12 2007, 11:46

QUOTE(Hakubo @ Jan 12 2007, 11:06)

Ever listened to Therion?

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,4),'The '),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))
,
[%artist%]
)

Shouldn't you then take the substring of %artist% starting at 5, instead of 4?

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,4),'The '),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),5))
,
[%artist%]
)

Hakubo

Jan 12 2007, 15:46

QUOTE

Shouldn't you then take the substring of %artist% starting at 5, instead of 4?

$sub != substring. It's "subtract". This operator is used here for evaluating the number of symbols we take from the original string (starting from the right, hence the $right operator).

QUOTE

Thanks to all, I had been looking for a way to do this. However, is there a way to do it in the albumlist?

I think so.
Replace the %album artist% in the desired view strings with

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%album artist%,4),'The '),$right(%album artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))', 'The,[%album artist%])

Funkdude

Jan 12 2007, 20:49

QUOTE(Hakubo @ Jan 12 2007, 16:46)

QUOTE

Shouldn't you then take the substring of %artist% starting at 5, instead of 4?

$sub != substring. It's "subtract". This operator is used here for evaluating the number of symbols we take from the original string (starting from the right, hence the $right operator).

QUOTE

Thanks to all, I had been looking for a way to do this. However, is there a way to do it in the albumlist?

I think so.
Replace the %album artist% in the desired view strings with

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%album artist%,4),'The '),$right(%album artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))', 'The,[%album artist%])

Worked, thank you!

tool++

Jan 13 2007, 03:29

QUOTE(wraithdu @ Jan 11 2007, 18:36)

In your Artist column sort order, replace %artist% with -

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%artist%,4),'The '),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4))', The'
,
[%artist%]
)

Edited for betterness. :]

Because your previous code include anything that stated with "The" like These or Their or whatever.

CODE

$if($stricmp($left(%album artist%,4),'The '),
$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%album artist%),4))', The'
,
[%album artist%]
)

Also for sorting you'd want to use album artist, because that defaults to %artist% if there's no actualy %album artist%

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