JohnVee Wrote: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 Wrote:Yes

From the xbmc gui

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

Soutie Wrote: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

(2015-10-03, 22:59)spiderborg Wrote: 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?

(2015-10-03, 22:59)spiderborg Wrote: 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?

(2015-10-03, 23:50)pagali Wrote:

(2015-10-03, 22:59)spiderborg Wrote: 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 ;

(2015-10-13, 15:34)spiderborg Wrote:

(2015-10-03, 23:50)pagali Wrote:

(2015-10-03, 22:59)spiderborg Wrote: 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?

(2015-10-13, 17:24)pagali Wrote: 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.

(2015-10-13, 16:46)ilovethakush Wrote: 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.