Article Strings Registry Settings

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Hi

I had a server crash which meant I had to totally rebuild one of my libraries which when creating I set the “preferring local metadata” flag to yes

My issue is that SOMETIMES scanned titles ignore the hard coded articles in front of a title track or artist. I always explicitly enter “The” in the file metadata in a title, album artists and artists. (e.g. The Beatles, The Outlaws)

But when I look at all my music artists, in the “T” section some bands explicitly show the artitist as The xxxx and some just show as xxx (but are in the right place alphabetically).

I have even tried deleting the music from Plex, checking that the metadata is correct and rescanning but the files come back into the same place I deleted them from (I deleted trash from the library before re-scanning and even cleaned the bundles, shut down server)

I know that in the hidden seetings there us a registry value for Windows server about how to treat Article Strings

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/

My question is as follows - If the ArticleString value doesnt even exist in the registry at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server, does this mean that stringarticles are ignored or not? My assumption is that if the key doesnt exist then articles like “The” tht explicitly exist in the metadata will be sorted as “The Beatles” and PMS wont decide to just ignore it. However becuase of the situation I am in where sometimes “The” is ignored and sometimes it isnt that maybe the key should exist but just be blank

Thanks

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Sorry - I should have also stated as well as explicitly putting “The” in the metadata, when I import something into Plex I also explicitly put “The” into the start of the album name AND the sort name

Its like sometimes “the” in the sort name is ignored and sometimes it is not even when it is hard coded into the metadata and I “hard code” it by manually making sure its in the album name and sort name once in Plex

Thanks

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That’s exactly what you need.
Create the key, but put in an empty string ""

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server]
"ArticleStrings"=""

Keep in mind that this only affects newly added items. It won’t change the sort title of existing items.

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Thanks Otto

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