Hi,
When Plex scans a share or folder for movies and series, words like “the” are ignored for the sort process.
How do I disable that behaviour?
Regards,
PlexLuver.
Nobody any idea?
I don’t believe there is a setting to disable it.
Can I ask why you prefer it include the word “The” when sorting?
Because The is part of the title of movies or series so The is what I look for.
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I confirmed with the DEV’s and I was correct, in that there is no setting to disable this standard sorting method
Thanks, bye bye Plex, hello back Kodi.
You could manually edit and lock the “Sort title” field for each movie in your collection to add “The” back in. Then Plex would sort how you prefer. But it would take work on each title starting with “The” or “A”
Which is a lot of manual labour with a big library of movies and series.
I just don’t see the stupidity of this.
Why does the developer decide how I look up my movies?
And why not the same rule for each language?
German movies starting with Das, Dutch movies starting with Een, they are not affected.
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Plex developers are not concerned about getting involved with silly, outrageous user needs and wishes (whiny users just want to make development way more complicated than it needs to be and adds nothing to further development of their software - that is obviously perfect in every way… duh…).
The developers don’t use Plex the same way you do. If they wanted a ‘MOVIE TITLE’ to be listed as it’s written on the ‘COPYRIGHT DOCUMENTS’ and contained in the ‘DATABASES’ Plex accesses to gather ‘MEDIA INFORMATION’ from they would have designed it that way.
Plex has already decided what’s best for you. Now you just have to admit they’re right and you’re wrong.
Now… you’d better name that bastid correctly even if you can’t sort by that same name because Plex is already one step ahead of you and has anticipated your needs in the same way they provide for your viewing through those Discovery Hubs… (if that’s not an example of pure genius I don’t know what is)…
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Amazing how many idiots we have on this globe.
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@PlexLuver said:
Which is a lot of manual labour with a big library of movies and series.I just don’t see the stupidity of this.
Why does the developer decide how I look up my movies?
And why not the same rule for each language?
German movies starting with Das, Dutch movies starting with Een, they are not affected.
Actually that does not appear to be the case. In my library “Das Boot” is in the B’s and “la cage aux folles” is in the C’s, exactly as expected and as is correct in all western methods of alphabetizing things like titles for storage or reference. It is used in government and libraries throughout the western world.
Of course just because it is done that way by most entities in the western world does not mean that it is correct for all. After all it is said that the phrase that is most likely to cause the end of civilization is: “That’s the way it has always been done.”
Well, at least XBMC/Kodi added the option to ignore A/The/etc and when you switch it off, it uses those words for sorting.
I think this is the only time I’ve heard of someone wanting The to be included in searching. I’ve always wanted it the other way around, because I don’t want 100 movie titles all grouped under The, I want them sorted by the first real proper noun.
@kegobeer-plex said:
I think this is the only time I’ve heard of someone wanting The to be included in searching. I’ve always wanted it the other way around, because I don’t want 100 movie titles all grouped under The, I want them sorted by the first real proper noun.
Agreed! In fact I have spent some time looking for a decent file manager for Windows (so far without much success) that can be configured to ignore the articles in the file name.
@Elijah_Baley said:
Agreed! In fact I have spent some time looking for a decent file manager for Windows (so far without much success) that can be configured to ignore the articles in the file name.
For Plex Movies, I have my renamer create the folders for each film to Title, The (Year) or Title, A (Year) for this reason.
@hthighway said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
Agreed! In fact I have spent some time looking for a decent file manager for Windows (so far without much success) that can be configured to ignore the articles in the file name.For Plex Movies, I have my renamer create the folders for each film to
Title, The (Year)orTitle, A (Year)for this reason.
Yeah. I tried the one folder for each movie approach and found it extremely clumsy to maintain. I know others use that method and like it quite a bit but I do not.
I have my movies grouped under folders “#AB,” “CDE” etc. and under that I have some folders of movies that belong together ex. I have a “Bond” folder under my “#AB” directory.
That is the way that works best for me. BTW: When placing movies the the alphabetical folders I ignore “The,” “A,” etc. That is “The Kennel Murder Case” is in the “IJK” directory.
Kodi didn’t build in that option for 1 user ey.
I have a folder for #'s, then a individual folder for each letter of the alphabet, and finally a folder for each movie 
I remember way back when MyMovies didn’t allow sorting to ignore articles like A, An, The. Man, I was overjoyed when it was finally added.
@kegobeer-plex said:
I think this is the only time I’ve heard of someone wanting The to be included in searching. I’ve always wanted it the other way around, because I don’t want 100 movie titles all grouped under The, I want them sorted by the first real proper noun.
Which is exactly why that is the standard practice “throughout the western world.”
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