I which we’d have improved support for Sort Title parsing. Sander1 told me some many weeks ago that this is done by the meta data scanners and not by the specific agents.
To all you developers: are there plans to give this a little love? I know this is working well for english titled movies. But there are lots of really good french, german or italian movies in my collection and many of them need manual treatment for getting the sort title right.
Oh we already started making a list of them. Those exceptions have to be ignored I think:
German: der, die, das; ein, eine
French: le, la, l’, les; un, une, des
Spanish: el, la, las, los; un, una, unos, unas
English: the; a, an, some
Examples:
Boot, Das
Fisch namens Wanda, Ein
Leiche zum Dessert, Eine
Strada, La
Enfant, L’
Exceptions (the article is a substantive):
Der mit dem Wolf tanzt
Eine wie keine
Problematic (the article means sth in another language):
LA Crash
You’re right, we’ve punted on non-english article removal for now (mostly because of the exceptions you’ve noted).
It’s possible that at some point we could apply language-specific prefixes, but it becomes complicated (what if the agent is returning english metadata for a german movie, how do we know to apply german prefix removal?)
I don’t think that it should be language specific. Just strip them all out.
How many english movies can you think of beginning with an foreign language article. I didn’t really find one, that’s why I included L.A. Crash which actually doesn’t count. The other exceptions I mentioned where the article is used as a substantive/noun are really really rare - I’d ignore them.
Many users with french, german, spanish titled movies in their collection would certainly be very thankful!
Those who don’t probably won’t even notice.
James Bond : Die another day would become Another Day, thanks to German users ?
Ok, you asked, I answered...
Just tu put my two cents : I can see at least one usage where it would be really useful to manage sort_title with python, on a per agent basis.
I'm using Plex for UFC shows. Titles go from UFC 1 to UFC 148. I would like to set sort_title for UFC 2 to UFC 002, juste to be sure it will come before UFC 148.
If someone has a solution for this, feel free to share it :P
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