If I could turn off ‘Short Title’ for all movies them they would be in alphabetical order listed in Movies. Right now all Movies are listed by ‘Short Title’ instead of ‘Title’.
Please help, Thanks
It is called ‘Sort Title’.
You cannot switch sorting to the full title.
You can however influence how the sort title is generated, when media are added to your server.
There is a hidden preference, which articles/words are cut off from a full title to make the Sort Title.
If you empty out this list, the full title will be copied to the Sort Title.
You can use the attached .reg file (unzip it, then double-click) to do it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server]
"ArticleStrings"=""
the following will revert the setting to its default:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server]
"ArticleStrings"="the, die, das, der, a, an, el, la"
Changing this preference won’t affect all the items which are already in your Plex library, though.
For those of you that like me thought, ok changing this and Plex then automatically dos the rest, yeah sorta, but you need to do a ANALYZE first, atleast thats the only way i could get it to put in THE and what not again in short title.
Just do not get it why they in the first place have to remove THE and A and so on, if i want to find “The 5th Wave” i scroll down to T and not looking under 5 because the title is “THE 5th wave”, meeeh just stupid that they have it “hidden” away, this option should be there to enable or disable, and not have to go and edit the registry.
Because the general rule for alphabetization of titles calls for not including words like A and The. This is so that a bunch of titles don’t end up under T and A etc.
However as you have discovered Plex does allow you to override this but yes, the default is following convention.
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