Movie naming and articles a, an, & the

[chops3246 3]

I'm aware of the document for emby movie naming in general (e.g. https://github.com/EmbySupport/Emby.Docs/blob/master/Movie-Naming.md/).

However, I was hoping for a point of clarity on Movie names where an article is the first part of the title (a, an, or the).

Example: I have only about 260 movies and 30 start with "the" but I don't think of "The Terminator" or "The Butterfly Effect". I think "Terminator" or "Butterfly Effect" when browsing my library. 

I had tried swapping the article to the end (they way books might be organized) - like "Terminator, The" or similar. However last time I tried this on a title it was not matched to the proper metadata when I did a metadata refresh or file scan. Just wondering if there's a feature to this kind of organization that I'm missing (as most everything else I can think of related to naming is covered in the emby doc).

[Happy2Play 8296]

Emby by default already ignores these articles and sorts accordingly. 

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

 

[chops3246 3]

14 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Emby by default already ignores these articles and sorts accordingly. 

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

 

OK that's interesting - can you point to where this configuration or documentation is? Is this just in source code for base config or similar?

My question does relate to file names and linking up with proper metadata (without having to tag each movie with a tmdbid or similar).

Edited April 14 by chops3246

[Happy2Play 8296]

It is in the system.xml in the programdata\config folder not documented that I know of there are a few topics out there but by default Emby will ignore these articles and sort accordingly.  Naming/Structure are irrelevant.

Edited April 14 by Happy2Play

[Luke 37095]

HI, can you give a full file name example of something that didn't match? Thanks.