The/a/an in Library sorting

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The/a/an in Library sorting

Hi,
I recently downloaded the latest itunes update. During installation, I chose French as the language. Today I noticed that the songs were no longer sorted disregarding the/a/an in the Artist name (ie The Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc are now under 'T', not 'R' or 'B'). I thought this must be because it was in French, so I changed it back to English. However, 'The ...' is still sorted under 'T'. I'd really like to change it back but I can't work out how. I don't know whether this has been caused by the itunes update or by having it in French. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jesse

Posted on Jun 20, 2008 1:03 AM

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Answer 1

polydorus

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Jun 20, 2008 1:34 AM in response to Jesse8

You can fix this by using the sort field, look in Get Info>>Sorting tab.

You can't do a multiple track Get Info on the sorting fields, but if you fix one track in an album and save the result, you can right click on the track and choose Apply sort field. There you can apply the change to an album or artist.

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Wyodor

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Jun 20, 2008 1:48 AM in response to Jesse8

In the Finder type Cmd-Shift-G

Paste this line and hit Go

/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources

Open folder French.lproj.

Open file SortPrefixes.plist in TextEditor.

Add the prefixes to the list in alphabetical order.

You need to have Administrator Rights to save the file.

It appears that not all Nations are equal:

!http://web.mac.com/wyodor/_Discussions/iTunesSortStrings.png!

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Wyodor

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Jun 20, 2008 1:50 AM in response to Wyodor

OOPS!

I overlooked that you are using Windows.

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Jesse8 Author

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Jun 20, 2008 2:13 AM in response to Wyodor

Thanks for both your help.

I'm perfectly happy to have it in English. It was all working fine in English before this, I just don't understand why it won't go back to the way it was...

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Jesse8 Author

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Jul 16, 2008 3:54 AM in response to Jesse8

Hi again,
I'm still having this problem. I tried doing what polydorus suggested, but I can't make the change apply to all of an artist. I have thousands of songs by artists starting with 'the', so it'd take forever to do them one by one.
Today I downloaded the new version of itunes. I thought this would help, but it hasn't changed anything.
Everything is in English now, so I don't understand why I am having this problem still.
Thanks

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