I’ve been a member for about 2 minutes and I already have a question. I have found my way around the software and I understand most things. The one thing I can’t figure out is how to omit THE from artists names. I have folders for different users and and they contain all of those users files. I don’t want separate folders for each artist or all the files to start with THE. The artists are in alphabetical order and I’ve had them this way since the begining of time. Any help?
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You want to have “The Beatles” in a folder name “Beatles”?
Or do you like it as “Beatles, The”?
Or do you like to have all “The Beatles” tracks in a folder like \SomethingElse?
What do you do with most famous exception “The The”? 
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I’m just curious:
Do you duplicate all songs for all your users in their music folders if they want to listen to the same song?
Have you looked at the $delprefix() script command?
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Actually I do have some folders by decade and some folders by genre for songs that overlap. I want songs listed just by artist like Beatles - Yellow Submarine. Music Brainz Picard has so far been a blessing and a curse. I have another beef. Why does it have to include various artists. If they’re not named there is no point. The worst part is it put Various Artists under Album Artist instead of contributing Artists so I had many songs listed by Various Artists - title and I had to manually change them in Windows explorer.
I will look into that. Thank You.
It sounds like you need to modify your file naming script. There is brief tutorial on how to write a file naming script. The scripts can vary widely, from simple one-liners to much more complex scripts with logic to use different file naming structures based on different conditions. If you haven’t already done so, you might want to review the information in the Picard User Guide.
I missed school the day they taught Nuclear Physics and Brain Sugery. Isn’t there a string of code list I could get it from?