Issues with alphabetical sorting?

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

This was taken from another thread:

 

Regarding not being able to find A.I. Artificial Intelligence in the movies view in the web GUI, I instead went to movie genres then science fiction and then scrolled through all the movies, eventually I found A.I. Artificial Intelligence listed in with the titles beginning with I

 

 

Looks like Emby doesn't like the A. before the I in the name "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" as far as the alphabetical sorting is concerned. 

 

Also for titles like "A Scanner Darkly" it puts them under the titles beginning with S. Is there an option to have it listed in with the titles beginning with A instead ?

 

This also affects the Kodi add-on and where these movies are then positioned alphabetically, which is different to how native Kodi handles alphabetical sorting. 

 

Thanks

[Deathsquirrel 744]

You can put in a sort title for titles you want.  Otherwise the system will ignore A, The, etc., at the start of titles.  If you were to put the text A Scanner Darkly in the sort title field of your metadata for that film then it would sort under letter A instead of S.

[cw-kid 192]

You can put in a sort title for titles you want.  Otherwise the system will ignore A, The, etc., at the start of titles.  If you were to put the text A Scanner Darkly in the sort title field of your metadata for that film then it would sort under letter A instead of S.

 

Hi

 

That works the sort field in the metadata manager was empty. However I have far too many movies to work out which ones are not being sorted like they are in native Kodi and edit each of them manual to populate the sort field. 

 

Thanks

[Deathsquirrel 744]

The next to the last post in http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/2873-ignoring-the-in-the-sort-name/page-2?hl=%2Btitle+%2Bsort+%2Border&do=findComment&comment=48941 contains a bulk edit suggestion for updating your sort titles in all movie.xml files.  The current method is generally correct and a Sort Title field is provided for folks that have some movies with titles that are an exception or prefer a non-standard sort order.