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I can’t figure out how to stop Plex from removing “THE” from sorted names with my audiobooks.
I found a couple articles about “ArticleStrings”, but i checked the Registry and that string doesn’t even exist.
If the registry entry doesn’t exist, you can add it. Here’s the Help page that talks about this:
Why create it?
If it doesn’t exist, then nothing should get renamed.
Disregarding leading articles (“The,” “A,” “An,” etc.) in titles while alphabetizing has been standard practice in English, and some other languages, probably for at least 100 years (possibly several hundred years). It’s used by libraries, book stores, music stores, pretty much any venue that has something to alphabetize. Plex, by default (in the absence of an overriding ArticleStrings preference), quite naturally follows the same rule by default. The ArticleStrings advanced setting is provided so people who prefer not to follow the standard rule can override the default.
The reason for this practice (at least, this is what I was taught in grade school) is because those articles are so common, you can end up with a humongous “T” section, or “A” section, after which you would still have to go through the section looking for what you want by the second word in the title. So they established the convention of ignoring them.
And, to be clear, nothing is being renamed. Only the sort title has the leading articles removed.
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