[JohnVee]

Hi,

In my movie collection, I have about 20 titles that start with A.

e.g.
A Few Good men
A History of Violence
A Perfect Getaway

Is there a way that I can ignore the "A" when sorting through my movies?

Thanks

[steelman1991]

Hi,

In my movie collection, I have about 20 titles that start with A.

e.g.
A Few Good men
A History of Violence
A Perfect Getaway

Is there a way that I can ignore the "A" when sorting through my movies?

Thanks

Yes

From the xbmc gui

System\Appearance\File Lists\Ignore articles when sorting (e.g. "the")

[Soutie]

Yes

From the xbmc gui

System\Appearance\File Lists\Ignore articles when sorting (e.g. "the")

That will only ignore the "The" and not "A" or "An"

To get XBMC to ignore them you have to add the following into your advancesettings.xml file

<sorttokens>
<token>a</token>
<token>an</token>
</sorttokens>

Each 'token' is a word that will be ignored

[steelman1991]

That will only ignore the "The" and not "A" or "An"

To get XBMC to ignore them you have to add the following into your advancesettings.xml file

<sorttokens>
<token>a</token>
<token>an</token>
</sorttokens>

Each 'token' is a word that will be ignored

Your bang on Soutie - forgot about adding other 'tokens' - thanks

[JohnVee]

Thanks guys for your help!

[spiderborg]

Is there any chance this will be added to Kodi without having to mess with the advance settings file?

It seems pretty standard when sorting things to ignore a, an, and the. I'm curious why it only includes "the" by default?

[pagali]

Is there any chance this will be added to Kodi without having to mess with the advance settings file?

It seems pretty standard when sorting things to ignore a, an, and the. I'm curious why it only includes "the" by default?

I've always wondered about that too. Why would anybody want to skip "The" but not skip "A" and "An" ??

BTW.. I also have included * and " in my advancedsettings.xml file

Code:

<sorttokens>
        <token>The</token>
        <token>A</token>
        <token>An</token>
        <token separators="">*</token> <!-- asterisk symbol * -->
        <token separators="">&quot;</token> <!-- quotation symbol -->
    </sorttokens>

NOTE: I can't get the html code for * to show up properly here, it keeps converting it to *. but the code is #42 surrounded by & and ;

[Fail$tyle420]

Is there any chance this will be added to Kodi without having to mess with the advance settings file?

It seems pretty standard when sorting things to ignore a, an, and the. I'm curious why it only includes "the" by default?

+100

[spiderborg]

Is there any chance this will be added to Kodi without having to mess with the advance settings file?

It seems pretty standard when sorting things to ignore a, an, and the. I'm curious why it only includes "the" by default?

I've always wondered about that too. Why would anybody want to skip "The" but not skip "A" and "An" ??

BTW.. I also have included * and " in my advancedsettings.xml file

Code:

<sorttokens>
        <token>The</token>
        <token>A</token>
        <token>An</token>
        <token separators="">*</token> <!-- asterisk symbol * -->
        <token separators="">&quot;</token> <!-- quotation symbol -->
    </sorttokens>

NOTE: I can't get the html code for * to show up properly here, it keeps converting it to *. but the code is #42 surrounded by & and ;

This helps out a great deal! Thanks

I'm trying to figure out how to ignore the left parentheses "(". So far I've been unsuccessful. Google has not helped either. I was wondering if you know how this could be accomplished?

[ilovethakush]

Oh no please don't make this a feature. I only want to ignore "the", as I'm sure most people. It makes ZERO sense to ignore a or an, that's just my opinion and I don't wanna argue with anyone about it. Just the settings are fine as is, if you want more, you do advancedsettings.

But then again in the settings it says "ignore articles when sorting" and a and an are definitely articles. Still though, I've made my point clear.

[pagali]

Is there any chance this will be added to Kodi without having to mess with the advance settings file?

It seems pretty standard when sorting things to ignore a, an, and the. I'm curious why it only includes "the" by default?

I've always wondered about that too. Why would anybody want to skip "The" but not skip "A" and "An" ??

BTW.. I also have included * and " in my advancedsettings.xml file

Code:

<sorttokens>
        <token>The</token>
        <token>A</token>
        <token>An</token>
        <token separators="">*</token> <!-- asterisk symbol * -->
        <token separators="">&quot;</token> <!-- quotation symbol -->
    </sorttokens>

NOTE: I can't get the html code for * to show up properly here, it keeps converting it to *. but the code is #42 surrounded by & and ;

This helps out a great deal! Thanks

I'm trying to figure out how to ignore the left parentheses "(". So far I've been unsuccessful. Google has not helped either. I was wondering if you know how this could be accomplished?

Same method as above, see character codes here: http://character-code.com/ The first code listed for each character is the HTML code -- that's the one you'll want to use.

[pagali]

Having been close to a librarian for many years, I can tell you that it IS correct to skip A, An, The, and even foreign versions of the same articles when sorting book or movie titles. No argument needed. In my own personal media library, I don't worry about the foreign articles, though... and you're also entitled to manage your library any way that makes you happy.

[ilovethakush]

Having been close to a librarian for many years, I can tell you that it IS correct to skip A, An, The, and even foreign versions of the same articles when sorting book or movie titles. No argument needed. In my own personal media library, I don't worry about the foreign articles, though... and you're also entitled to manage your library any way that makes you happy.

You're right, I know that's the standard. I'm just saying to me personally it makes no sense as it makes it much harder to find what you want (which is the point of organizing right). Ignoring the is great, cause there is just so many movie titles that start with the and when speaking with someone in real life, the "the" is usually left out of the speech.

Such as, the first fast movie is called. The Fast and the Furious, but when speaking people just say, did you see fast and furious? (and yes I know the 4th movie is called that lol, I just couldn't think of another movie lol)

For A Few Good Men, or any a or an movie, you usually pronounce the article.

[spiderborg]

I just hate it when I'm scrolling through my list of movies and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is at the beginning of the alphabet instead of under "N" as it should be. I'm pretty OCD when it comes to this. After I get my whole library set up the way I want it I'm going to create NFO files to keep things permanent (including all the artwork the way I want )

[Fail$tyle420]

Oh no please don't make this a feature. I only want to ignore "the", as I'm sure most people. It makes ZERO sense to ignore a or an, that's just my opinion and I don't wanna argue with anyone about it. Just the settings are fine as is, if you want more, you do advancedsettings.