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Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:45 pm**

I have noted that the listing order is in the wrong alphabetical order for albums with "The" at the beginning.
I have checked the metadata and it is correct.

Example of album titles (within Artist)

Blue Guitars; Texas Blues, Disc 5
The Blue Jukebox - THIS IS IN WRONG ORDER
Chris Rea
Dancing with Strangers

For example the album is "The Road To Hell" not "Road To Hell"

I will check other categories.

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:22 pm**

You will find that most DLNA servers will ignore the letter A or the word The if it's the first word of a title. It seems to be some sort of standard, although I have no idea if it's an actual recorded standard. Plex does the same thing. The folder view gives you the titles in absolute alphabetical order, but to my knowledge that's the only one that does.

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:41 pm**

atc98092 wrote:You will find that most DLNA servers will ignore the letter A or the word The if it's the first word of a title. It seems to be some sort of standard, although I have no idea if it's an actual recorded standard. Plex does the same thing. The folder view gives you the titles in absolute alphabetical order, but to my knowledge that's the only one that does.

Follow-up
The Album, Album/Artist and Titles categories are all also incorrect.

Dan
I note your comment but surely it is wrong.
Surely all the categories should give the absolute alphabetical order.

I am aware (and even use) the comma option convention e.g. (Rolling Stones, The) and (Beatles, The).

Posted: **Wed Dec 27, 2017 4:08 pm**

No, I'm not wrong.

I just added one of my media folders into Windows Media Player, and when it indexed each file it ignored the word "The" if it's the first word in the title. For example, The Cable Guy is grouped under C, not T. A Letter to Three Wives is under L, not A.

And this is not though Serviio. This is the way Windows groups the titles. Before I decided on Serviio I tried a number of other DLNA servers, and they all did it the same way.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:56 am**

atc98092 wrote:No, I'm not wrong.

I just added one of my media folders into Windows Media Player, and when it indexed each file it ignored the word "The" if it's the first word in the title. For example, The Cable Guy is grouped under C, not T. A Letter to Three Wives is under L, not A.

And this is not though Serviio. This is the way Windows groups the titles. Before I decided on Serviio I tried a number of other DLNA servers, and they all did it the same way.

Sorry Dan I was not implying you were wrong but rather that the I thought the concept is wrong.

Looking for "Wall" instead of "The Wall" seems strange to me.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:05 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 31, 2017 3:37 pm**

Have added a request for true Alphabetical indexing as an option to BitBucket.

Serviio

Audio Artist / Album alphabetical indexing order issue

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