iTunes ignores 'The' in song tags when sorting

Dec 16, '02 08:22:17AM

Contributed by: G-Mantle

I was recently informed about an interesting, possibly undocumented iTunes feature. It turns out that iTunes will ignore a leading "the" in the artist ID3 tags when sorting, so it will sort all your songs by "The Beatles," for example, as if the artist was labeled as just "Beatles" and place them nicely in the B section, as opposed to the T section. So go ahead and name your bands correctly (they'll still display with "The" in front) and iTunes will handle the sorting properly.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work with the album tag.

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