Editing Title of multiple movies?

[King Pin 34]

Is there a way to quickly remove a word in the title of multiple movies like maybe using Notepad++?

I'd like to remove the word "The" anytime it appears as the first word in the title.

 

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

Can you elaborate on your reason?

Emby already does this by default for SortName.

  <SortRemoveWords>
    <string>the</string>
    <string>a</string>
    <string>an</string>
  </SortRemoveWords>

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Happy2Play

[King Pin 34]

I do everything on my desktop.  I'm always going through my library updating images, quickly scanning to find a movie to see if I need to upgrade it to a newer format etc. 

It makes easier when quickly scanning. 

Right now Emby isn't doing it for a lot of movies screenshot attached. 

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[Happy2Play 9783]

True it is Sorting them correctly as they appear in H instead of T.

 

So you want to remove "The" from Emby display title?  Don't know regex but if you write nfo files I guess you could change the "Title" node and Emby would display them without "The".

[King Pin 34]

I know people will think I'm stupid for wanting to do this but...hey I'm unique.    

BTW:  Happy, I have no idea how to do what you said. LOL   

[Happy2Play 9783]

I guess a dirty way would be use notepad++ and do a find in files

Find: <title>The  (Ensuring you have the trailing space)

Replace with: <title>

Filters: *.nfo

Directory: library path

But would test on single item or create a test library with a couple item.

This is something you have to do whenever adding a new item with "The" in title.

 

Or if a coding guru can provide a script to copy <sorttitle> to <title> (but confict if you have custom sorttitles)

[King Pin 34]

I'll give it a go. Thank you!

[rbjtech 5284]

This may also impact the ability for emby to identify the item on a metadata refresh (but I would hope the providers have logic to capture this) - so I would be very cautious on doing this.

The Sort Title is there for this exact reason - it will usually just put the 'the' after the title.  ie 'Highwaymen, The'

I used to do this myself many years back, but then reverted back to the main title due to Identify issues - you have been warned