When I’m ripping Cds of artists with ‘The’ in the title I’ve recently noticed something.
After ripping CDs of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Smiths, The Style Council, I notice that in the Naim App they appear at the end of their respective letter. e.g. The Beatles will appear at the end of the Bs along with The Beach Boys etc. However, this doesn’t happen with all groups with The in the title. The Groundhogs appear within the Gs and not specifically at the end. Same with The Rolling Stones, they appear within the letter R as opposed to at the end of the Rs. Is there any way I can change anything so they all appear in the same way? I’ve enclosed a few photos to demonstrate. Notice with the Beatles etc, there is a letter T before they appear. It’s all a bit strange and inconsistent.
The Artist & Album Handling has 3 modes (examples using The Beetles ):
Smart: this mode keeps the artist text as The Beetles, yet sorts the artist under ‘B’
Value, The: places the on the end, for example Beetles, The
Leave as is: does not adjust the displayed value or sorted position
There are also various tags in play in metadata which can affect this such as ARTISTSORT or ALBUMARTISTSORT (from memory, I can check exact names if you need). The “inconsistent” behaviour may be because different rips have different things in metadata….
Asset UPnP Identification can rename the Asset UPnP server name to something more suited to your personal requirements The Artist & Album Handling has 3 modes (examples using The Beetles):
Smart: this mode keeps the artist text as The Beetles, yet sorts the artist under ‘B’
Value, The: places the on the end, for example Beetles, The
Leave as is: does not adjust the displayed value or sorted position
I’m still a bit confused. as I say…The Beatles ARE sorted under ‘B’ but they appear at the end of the Bs yet The Rolling Stones are sorted under ‘R’ but not at the end of the Rs.
Since I’ve been ripping CDs I haven’t changed any settings in Asset so why would some artists with ‘The’ appear at the end of their respective letter and others like The Rolling Stones appear correctly as in my photo?
Yes…Smart mode keeps text as The Beatles…but as you can see from my pic…for some reason it puts The Beatles in a separate section at the end of the 'B’s along with The Beach Boys
Thanks guys. Changing the settings in Asset has given me some consistency as to how they are displayed. Still perplexed as to why some artists with ‘The’ in their title appear at the end of their respective letter and some don’t? As my pic shows The Rolling Stones appear correctly between Roland and Roman but The Beatles, The Beach Boys and two others appear at the end of the "B’s and you can see a letter ‘T’ before they show. All a bit weird.
In the Naim app, click the A-Z button above the listing of albums. This switches between two views - alphabetical and server default. Alphabetical puts the Ts (ie THEs) towards the end. I much prefer the server default.
I don’t see a huge difference when I alternate between the two. Only difference seems to be if albums start with a punctuation mark or a number, they appear at the front and if I switch to Alphabetical they go to the back. Any artist that begins with ‘The’ pretty much stays where it is.
I see little letter headers. Under ‘B’, David Bowie would appear under the little ‘D’, but The Beatles would be under the little ‘T’.
(I don’t like this, so I just have it in server order where David Bowie would come after The Beatles, but both definitely under ‘B’)
All of my albums have the various sort tags completed - artist, album artist etc. You can do this using dbPoweramp, either at the time of ripping, or later by using the tags editor utility.
