Sort Title for songs?

[crusher11 1171]

Are Sort Titles supported for songs? Words like “a” or “the” are automatically omitted, but the top of my list is populated by songs that start with punctuation.

[Luke 42359]

Hi, yes it is, but it's only used when sorting by song title.

[crusher11 1171]

How and where do I add it?

[Luke 42359]

HI, using the metadata editor for a track.

[crusher11 1171]

There's no Sort Title option in the Metadata Editor.

[crusher11 1171]

@Luke

[Luke 42359]

On 4/11/2026 at 2:13 PM, crusher11 said:

There's no Sort Title option in the Metadata Editor.

It needs to be added.

[crusher11 1171]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

It needs to be added.

So...it's not supported? 

[crusher11 1171]

@Luke

[crusher11 1171]

@Luke

[ebr 16393]

He's already told you.  The system supports it but you just don't have a way to edit it (yet).

[crusher11 1171]

16 minutes ago, ebr said:

He's already told you.  The system supports it but you just don't have a way to edit it (yet).

He also said it could be changed in the metadata editor. 

[ebr 16393]

28 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

He also said it could be changed in the metadata editor. 

And then, later, corrected that:

[brothom 213]

@ebr@LukeI agree that this issue is confusing to some and I personally hadn't even noticed Emby had this behaviour implemented.

I'd also like to point out that throughout other sections in Emby, sorting by "title" (so also with movies, episodes, show, etc) any articles (a, an, the, etc) are also ommitted.

I hadn't noticed this before, since I just use the search and basically never scroll the these libraries unless I'm filtering by "date added", "release", etc.

I can understand this is confusing to some users though. Isn't there a way to make this a setting?

Edited April 22 by brothom

[ebr 16393]

2 hours ago, brothom said:

sorting by "title" (so also with movies, episodes, show, etc) any articles (a, an, the, etc) are also ommitted

This is standard sorting practice.

2 hours ago, brothom said:

Isn't there a way to make this a setting?

In your System.xml:

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