Advanced-ish filenaming help needed(solved)

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You are using the sort name (albumartistsort or artistsort). “The Beatles” would be sorted in a catalogue under “Beatles, The”, and “Bryan Adams” under “Adams, Bryan”.

If you only want to “The” bands sorted in differently but want to keep the person names in “Firstname Lastname” order then use the normal albumartist or artist variables together with the $swapprefix function:

$swapprefix($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%))

See also the following discussions for more details:

Problem with artists starting by "The..." in "Album Artist Sort Order" and "Artist Sort Order"

Just to clarify for others reading this: Having “Beatles, The” is the default for the sort name. The issue here is that the default sort name is not being used as in this case tdurivault wants to sort persons by first name, last name. So a script like the following is used: $set(artistsort,%artist%) To also fix the sorting for bands starting with The you can use the swapprefix function: $set(artistsort,$swapprefix(%artist%)) By default $swapprefix will move “The” and “A” at the beginning to …

How to move the word "The" to after the artist?

If all you want is handling The and A, but you don’t want to use the sort name in other cases, you can also use the $swapprefix function. $swapprefix(%artist%)