Sort Title

[dherrington1]

Server Version#: 1.26.1.5798.-7000
Player Version#: 4.76.1

Greetings all,
I have been having a Sort Title issue that I cannot find a solution to. Every single import of a movie into my Movies folder that Plex is pointing to imports with the correct Title however Sort Title drops “A or The.” I have attempted adding the below string to the correct Preferences.xml, however it had no effect after a reboot of both Plex server and Synology server. Any help is greatly appreciated.

ArticleStrings=“The, A, An”

ArticleStrings

string

A comma-separated list of words considered to be grammatical articles, which are removed in sort titles.

the, das, der, a, an, el, la

[beckfield]

Anything in the ArticleStrings variable will be dropped in sort titles. If you don’t want Plex to drop them, remove the ArticleStrings line from the preferences.xml file.

[dherrington1]

Thank you for the quick reply. I should have stated that the ArticleStrings value was not present in my Preferences.xml file originally. I added it per the article found at the below support article from Plex. Should the value of ArticleStrings be left, but all the strings be dropped?

Advanced, Hidden Server Settings | Plex Support

[beckfield]

It’s worth a try. Make it ArticleStrings="" and see what happens.

[dherrington1]

I went back and capitalized the strings, waiting on a DVD rip to check. I figured maybe since it was proper English if it wasn’t capitalized it would drop. Next test is nuking all the strings.

[beckfield]

You may need to run the “Optimize Database” command after changing the strings. I found this tip in another thread.

Don’t forget to restart the Plex server after editing preferences.xml. Don’t need to reboot the machine, just stop/start the Plex server app.

[dherrington1]

It would seem that removing all strings and optimizing the database has fixed this issue. Latest “The” movie sorted correctly. Thanks for the great help.