Alphabetically

[Royboy19 0]

Hi I'm a new user and I'm not sure why the The first 48 is not showing up alphabetically like the other shows I'm adding. Any suggestions? any help greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers 

Edited February 21, 2019 by Royboy19

[Happy2Play 9780]

Because "The" is ignored when it comes to sorting.  You can add a Sort Title in edit metadata if you want it to appear in "T".

 

other examples from the system.xml

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

Edited February 21, 2019 by Happy2Play

[Royboy19 0]

 

Because "The" is ignored when it comes to sorting.  You can add a Sort Title in edit metadata if you want it to appear in "T".

 

other examples from the system.xml

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

 

Thank you very much.

[crusher11 1101]

 

Because "The" is ignored when it comes to sorting.  You can add a Sort Title in edit metadata if you want it to appear in "T".

 

other examples from the system.xml

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

So does this mean I don't have to create a manual sort title to do this? I was using Plex before this, which automatically created a sort title for these types of things. Emby leaves the sort title field blank, so I've been doing it manually.

[Happy2Play 9780]

So does this mean I don't have to create a manual sort title to do this? I was using Plex before this, which automatically created a sort title for these types of things. Emby leaves the sort title field blank, so I've been doing it manually.

 

Correct, Emby will automatically ignore those specific strings when sorting media.  You only need a sort title if you want something in a specific place.  A good example of required sort title is "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" as it is sorted to "I" since "A" is ignored.  There are rules in the system.xml for periods, plus sign and percent sign in the name also.