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What about the "the"?

Is your artist tag "The Beatles," "The Doors," "The Band"? Isn't that a drag for finding them? Or are they "Doors" and "Band"? But how can that be? :confused:

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# 1 Re: What about the "the"?

Beatles, The
Doors, The
etc., The for me.

hmartine_67 at 2007-11-15 17:05:43 >

# 2 Re: What about the "the"?

Yup, I do the same thing...

Replacements, The

Works great.

NiTRO at 2007-11-15 17:06:43 >

# 3 Re: What about the "the"?

I have "The Beatles", "The Doors", etc. but on my iPod they show up automatically under 'B' and 'D' respectively. I only wish MC9.1 was as smart.
What am I missing?

MidPack at 2007-11-15 17:07:53 >

# 4 Re: What about the "the"?

Yeah exactly, I have them in the iPod with The but EphPod doesn't read it like that. No big deal really, if I want to find The Bealtes i just look under T.

It does annoy me that De La Soul is alphabetized under L though...

BigIzz at 2007-11-15 17:08:48 >

# 5 Re: What about the "the"?

Originally posted by BigIzz
It does annoy me that De La Soul is alphabetized under L though...

If it weren't, I'd hate to think what songs by the band The The would be listed under ;)

jogloran at 2007-11-15 17:09:47 >

# 6 Re: What about the "the"?

Hmm...interesting. I just upgraded my 2nd gen iPod to version 1.3 but with v1.2.6 if I tagged "The Beatles" properly rather than as "Beatles, The" the iPod would file them under the "Ts". Now that I've done the firmware update I'll have to test it to see if this is still the case. Based on MidPack's post (he has a 3rd gen 15 gig), I can only assume that 3rd gen iPods running firmware 2.x do not have this issue.

NiTRO at 2007-11-15 17:10:46 >

# 7 Re: What about the "the"?

No, Nitro, effective w/firmware 1.2 (for 1st and 2nd geners), the iPod ignores leading articles. So, you should have been seeing this w/1.2.6 and of course w/1.3

So, "The Beatles" will be sorted under "B".

It works most of the time, expect when you get bands like "Die Young", "Die" being an article in German means that this band would get sorted under "Y".

But for the most part it works good.

Adam

ashawley at 2007-11-15 17:11:57 >

# 8 Re: What about the "the"?

Yep, i have tons of 'the' bands on my ipod, and as i live in germany i also have a few 'die' bands...

Great feature as it makes finding artists a lot easier especially in the car at red lights etc

AptMunich at 2007-11-15 17:12:49 >

# 9 Re: What about the "the"?

Ich habe keine schweinehunde

:D

Adam

ashawley at 2007-11-15 17:13:58 >

# 10 Re: What about the "the"?

Thanks for the info!

NiTRO at 2007-11-15 17:14:59 >

# 11 Re: What about the "the"?

Originally posted by MidPack
I have "The Beatles", "The Doors", etc. but on my iPod they show up automatically under 'B' and 'D' respectively. I only wish MC9.1 was as smart.
What am I missing?

me2

sparks9 at 2007-11-15 17:15:58 >

# 12 Re: What about the "the"?

All my the's are listed by the word that comes after. No probs here.

CanaMacPod at 2007-11-15 17:16:56 >

# 13 Re: What about the "the"?

Where do you put your The The albums then :P

loGan at 2007-11-15 17:18:02 >

# 14 Re: What about the "the"?

Retag your precious "THE" mp3s and problem solved.

Like arnold said, "STOP WHINING."
:)

stasyna at 2007-11-15 17:18:58 >

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