Default sorting include "the" and "a"

[JoLarsson 19]

Hi, I've searched around a bit but didn't find anything related although I know I seen the topic a couple of years ago.

When I go into my libraries, "the" and "a" is not accounted for in the sorting.

When my users browse around, they mostly browse because they all use Firestick Max or Chromecast TV and use the tv remote so seaching is a bit awkward with the onscreen keyboard..

Is there a global setting somewhere to just sort everything alphabetically. I can't count how many times I've heard "The AnyMovie" is not there. Well is under "AnyMovie".

Or I'm getting request for movies or series that are already there.

I remember when I used Kodi clients for my users there was a setting that I always enabled.

 

[GrimReaper 3331]

24 minutes ago, JoLarsson said:

Is there a global setting somewhere to just sort everything alphabeticall

There isn't currently, you need to edit your system.xml to remove SortRemoveWords and Refresh your libraries.  A Refresh is needed to correct the SortTitle in the database. Otherwise sort titles need to be adjusted per item. 

  <SortRemoveWords>
    <string>the</string>
    <string>a</string>
    <string>an</string>
    <string>das</string>
    <string>der</string>
    <string>el</string>
    <string>la</string>
  </SortRemoveWords>

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[JoLarsson 19]

Thanks "articles" was the word I was missing in my search... I had no idea they were called that. Non-native english speaker here.
 

I'll check out the links and play around.

[laie_techie 12]

Different languages have different articles to skip when searching / sorting. If you want an article to count in sorting, add it to the custom sort string.