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How do I remove the word "The" from all tags for artist?
pmilnes - 11-25-2004 at 02:28 PM

I would like to eliminate the word "The" from so many artists' tags. Instead of having to look up "The Beatles" I would like this artist to be listed under "Beatles".

Does anyone have a good way to easily do this?

Paul

ochristmas - 11-25-2004 at 05:03 PM

Short term solution is to use a tagging programme. I use mp3tag studio - which is by far the most powerful tagging program out there (ignore anyone that tells you otherwise :D). With the program it would take about 10 seconds to get the programme stripping the tags as you request.

Long term is that you leave the tags as they are (The Beatles are, after all called The Beatles) and instead change the interface - in this case eJukebox. I think there was talk of Audiosoft changing the interface so that The Beatles are listed under B not T - so send them a postcard with a pleading request and who knows what will happen! I for one would be a big advocate of this :D

MTownley - 11-26-2004 at 09:23 AM

This would be fine. However.....
they would have to watch out for the extreme case "The The".

At the moment there is no way to find them using search (as you get every single band with the word "the")

Pirk - 11-26-2004 at 09:34 AM

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Message original : ochristmas
Long term is that you leave the tags as they are (The Beatles are, after all called The Beatles) and instead change the interface - in this case eJukebox. I think there was talk of Audiosoft changing the interface so that The Beatles are listed under B not T - so send them a postcard with a pleading request and who knows what will happen! I for one would be a big advocate of this :D

Personnaly i tag The Beatles like this: "Beatles, The". But like you ochristmas, i would prefer that eJukebox detect the word "The" in artists names...
And also the words: "Les", "Le", "La" and "L' " for the French artists! :D

ochristmas - 11-26-2004 at 02:33 PM

Surely MTownley you would search for "helpline" and then click on "The The" from the (I presume) only result that comes back - thats if youve got their best album ;)

Dyno Don - 11-28-2004 at 01:52 AM

I removed all the "the's" from my artists. People don't use the search much, they like to look for their artisits. I just chose a "the" artist and rename artist from the editor. It doesn't take too long.

Don

rlailey - 11-28-2004 at 01:52 AM

Another tangent to this thread is when an artist releases their first album by the same name as the group/artist name. If this album name gets tagged as 'The Album' ej gets confused as to which cover art to use as several artists will share the same 'The Album' name for their first release CD's :)