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Authored by: Dephex Twin on Dec 16, '02 12:18:50PM

Seems like Dave Matthew's Band would be sorted under "D" in most music stores as well... but regardless of that, I don't see how you could expect the artists that are first + last name to be automatically sorted anyway. The app would have to somehow know if it was a person's first and last name, and not just any two words, or something that looks like a name, but is really just the group name (like, Luscious Jackson or Marcie Playground or Mr. T Experience), or something that is a person's name but doesn't look like it (Mazzy Star, Jello Biafra). Taking out a leading "the" is simple and is common practice.



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Authored by: chabig on Dec 16, '02 01:01:15PM

I believe the ID3 spec contains a tag for sorting. So you could have Dave Mathews displayed as the artist, but you could make the sorting tag say "Mathews Dave." All we need is for iTunes to support this.

Chris



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