Handling Artist, Albums, and songs that start with "The" and "A"

I'm personnaly not a fan of this behavior, because It's hard for me to find a song as I'm not an english native speaker.

This will also demand a database for every determiner from all languages.

Let's see what the design team say from this.

I know that Noise is suppose to be minimalistic, but it could always be made an option. That way everyone wins. Anyways I believe that this is the way most other media players handle it.

I'm personally +1 on this, but if I remember correctly, it is a regional issue (We've had this discussion before somewhere else). I know for my location (West Coast US), its standard practice to skip words like "The" when organizing alphabetically.

But how would such a sorting work?
My songs are almost all with names in English, but my locale is set to Esperanto. How would Noise know that I want English, and not Esperanto, sorting?

+Arturo:

Noise can just check for all articles that are part of the translations.

Could you explain more?

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Eduard Gotwig <email address hidden>wrote:

> +Arturo:
>
> Noise can just check for all articles that are part of the translations.
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> Title:
> Handling Artist, Albums, and songs that start with "The" and "A"
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> Status in Noise Audio Player:
> New
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> Bug description:
> Artists and albums that start with either "The" or "A" should have
> those words ignored for sorting perposes. For examle, "The Beatles"
> should be with the other artists that start with "B", instead of
> grouped together with other artists that start with "The".
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There is a string in Rosetta (Translations tab) with "The|an|…" that you can translate to what you want in your language, if your language don't use it, simply translate it into " " (a single space character)

Now I'm confused. The string is this one: https://translations.launchpad.net/noise/trunk/+pots/noise/eo/27/+translate
But the original English includes articles from English, French, German, and Spanish. How does this work?