Sorting and displaying Artists that start with "The" like "The Beatles" or "The Who"

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Ian ProtonMail

Can you please explain why BlueSound displays any artist whose name starts with “The”; like: The Band, The Beatles, The Who, The Decemberists etc. etc. ….

I have carefully made SURE that the albums are, correctly shown as The Beatles, or The Who etc. in all cases. Yet BlueSound displays them under the “B” as “The Beatles” instead of under “T”

I understand that some people MAY like to sort their library this way. They can, of course, list the artist that way in the metadata if they so choose … but that is NOT how I have catalogued my library … and I have made sure that the metadata is how I want to see it organized and displayed … please explain WHY it is not sorted & displayed according to my metadata.

Thank you

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    Seppi Evans
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    I am a user but there is absolutely no way I would want “The Beatles” filled under T, why you ask?

    Because when you walk into a record store, you expect to find The Band, The Beach Boys and The Beatles under B and not T.

    Same applies when browsing my music library both electronically and my physical CD collection.

  • Ian ProtonMail

    I ask because, I disagree. My Library is MY record store ... And when I make and maintain things like  playlists I want to see the artists displayed as they are properly named. i.e. 

    The Beatles

    The Doors

    The Tragically Hip

    The Rolling Stones

    I never refer to any of these bands without The included. 

    My real question is WHY does BlueSound decide to override the way I name the album artist in teh metadata? 

    If I wanted to name, and sort "The Beatles" as "Beatles, The" I, as the user could easily do that within the metadata. Indeed the Artist names are often stored differently in teh metadata by different vendors and I physically change them to all be consistent ... hence I would prefer that BlueSound did NOT override my choices with the metadata. 

    As far as I can tell they do not override other user choices, like Genre ... 

    And of Course you are welcome sort The Beatles by B or the Doors by D ... I respect your preferences.

    This response says it is "Official" but you ar ea user. Can you please advise in what "Official" capacity you are responding.

    Thank you 

     

     

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  • Ian ProtonMail

    Seppi, I have not seen any response. I do believe that my questions:

      1 - Why have you chosen to override the metadata as chosen by the user? 

      2 - And in what official capacity was your response? 

    Was a rational, and respectfully asked question. 

    Given no response, I can only assume:

      1 - you are responding officially on behalf of BlueSound.

      2 - The strategy to override the user metadata is/was a strategic decision, for whatever reason, and that is how things are programmed. Hence we will not entertain any suggestions to alter the strategy we have employed. 

    I have no issue with that position, assuming that I have summarized it accurately ..

    I do believe that you could have respectfully advised as such. 

    I migrated form Sonos to BlueSound 4 years ago ... I do believe that users can provide useful and constructive input ...  

     

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  • Seppi Evans
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    I am an end user, this is a community forum, Bluesound mark posts as official comment.

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