Problem library with movies with "article" in the title

[Hispanico957 23]

In my library I have Italian movies and many of them begin with the article "la, li etc..for example" The pink panther ".

Emby inserts these movies under the letter P and therefore does not consider the two letters of the article "La"... how can I set emby to insert these movies under the letter " L"  ? 

 

Thank

Hispanico

[richt 94]

Check this article to see if it helps. 

 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

What you are experiencing is correct alphabet sorting that is used everywhere in the world.

However if you really want wrong sorting you can change the sort title in the metadata to whatever you want.

There is a config file somewhere in the Emby directories that contains the articles to be ignored for sorting. Chang it if you wish.

Edited February 12, 2022 by Gilgamesh_48

[smn75 2]

Me too don't like sorting movies this way. Although everywhere in the world it is like this, in my home I prefer the other method!
Then the articles "La, a" lists them in a way while the article "Il" does not consider it.
I don't understand why you can't put an entry in the settings where you can set the items to ignore?
I am a premiere user and I don't like this aspect

[Luke 42083]

9 hours ago, smn75 said:

Me too don't like sorting movies this way. Although everywhere in the world it is like this, in my home I prefer the other method!
Then the articles "La, a" lists them in a way while the article "Il" does not consider it.
I don't understand why you can't put an entry in the settings where you can set the items to ignore?
I am a premiere user and I don't like this aspect

Hi, please take a look at this topic:

Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Per the linked topic, 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

example A is a SortRemoveWord so A I Artificial Intelligence is sorted to I without removing sortwords or applying Sort Title.

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

Or one needs to add additional sort words and Refresh.  Ideally additional sort words should be put in a feature request to be added to Emby.  But yes exposing this in the UI would be beneficial.

 

[smn75 2]

@Luke @Happy2Play
I've edit the system.xml file and now the movies are sorted as I want.

Thank's 

Edited June 15, 2022 by smn75

[danelem 1]

Hi,

I have some movies with French titles. I managed to add le, la, les, un, une to the list of the words to ignore, but I can't add l' (L and apostrophe).

I tried to escape it, to put only the letter L, but I guess that Emby needs a space to separate it from the rest of the title.

Is there a way around this?

[Luke 42083]

11 hours ago, danelem said:

Hi,

I have some movies with French titles. I managed to add le, la, les, un, une to the list of the words to ignore, but I can't add l' (L and apostrophe).

I tried to escape it, to put only the letter L, but I guess that Emby needs a space to separate it from the rest of the title.

Is there a way around this?

Hi, are you sure that's actually a word?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

56 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, are you sure that's actually a word?

That is a French construction see:
Le/la/l' = The (French Definite Articles)

[danelem 1]

On 9/25/2023 at 3:24 AM, Luke said:

Hi, are you sure that's actually a word?

Yes, if the first letter of a word is a vowel, le and la become l'.

The problem I see is that there is no space after.

[Luke 42083]

OK this is a special case that we'll have to look into. Thanks.

[danelem 1]

Ok, thank you for checking @Luke

In the meantime, removing it from the sort title does the trick. Just need to remember to do it.