I’m using Infuse on AppleTV.
What happened to the sorting order for titles on Infuse? I haven’t changed anything yet movies are now being sorted incorrectly.
Anything starting with “The” is being put in “T” which is extremely annoying. This is ruining the app for me. Again, I haven’t changed my collection and I haven’t changed any settings in Infuse.
This is a bug which will be resolved in the 8.1.2 update, which is being submitted to Apple today. 
Okay. Thanks!
The problem I have is this:
When the option to group movies by collection is set to on (e.g. movies don’t show up individually in the main movie list but grouped as a single entry), collection names that start with “THE” are all grouped down in T.
For example “The Dark Knight” collection is not grouped under D but under T when viewing movies in the main “all movies” view when sorted by title.
Is there something broken on my end?
If not I think that the logic should be changed to always sort collections in a way that disregards articles such as “A”, “The”, etc.
The reason for this is simple, the nfo file format as standardized by Kodi and Plex and as created by various media manager software lacks a “sorttitle” field for collections. It only has a title field which properly should contain the literal title (including articles) and when scraped from TMDB always does.
Here’s an example from an nfo file:
<set>
<name>The Dark Knight Collection</name>
<overview>A superhero film series based on the DC Comics character Batman. Centered on Bruce Wayne, a billionaire dedicating his life to fight crime in his home, Gotham City, as a masked vigilante known as Batman.</overview>
<tmdb>263</tmdb>
</set>
Some background:
Recently, sometime in the past few months something happened to the sorting logic for Infuse. This resulted in “The” being used for sorting most movies that start with it that previously were correctly sorted.
I fixed this by rescanning the metadata, changing the sort to another option and back and restarting. I noticed a few films where the nfo files lacked a sorttitle field and corrected this.
My set-up is this: local server hosting a fileshare over SMB, all movies are using local metadata, nfo files, local images, etc.
I’m guessing this will be fixed in the upcoming 8.1.2 release
Note the third item
• Fixed sorting titles beginning with ‘The’
This should be resolved in today’s 8.1.2 update. 
Thanks for your patience.
Shouldn’t this also apply to titles starting with “A” or “An”? It seems inconsistent to ignore “the” for sorting purposes and not “a” or “an”.
This change won’t apply to ‘A’ or ‘An’ - as Infuse has always included these in the As. These are much less common and generally more integral to the movie name.
Hey, yo. I’m back!
James … Sir … PLEASE … in version 8 …
Let us, the users (each of us, individually) decide for ourselves if we want leading indefinite articles in English (and, ideally, both definite and indefinite articles in foreign-language titles) ignored when sorting our collections alphabetically — via a new handy-dandy settings toggle?
Certainly there are a lot more media titles which begin with The than A or An (perhaps by a ratio of 10 to 1); but any large enough collection contains dozens if not more of these — and locating them soon becomes just as annoying as locating missorted “The …” films in a smaller collection.
I’ve argued my case for also ignoring A and An years; and while I acknowledge that I have been consistently in the minority in this opinion, and understand this will never be Infuse’s default behavior … isn’t it now finally possible, given the completely new rewrite of Infuse for version 8, to give users the choice?
Pretty please?
With sugar on top?
Thank you!
…
(And, if we could also get a settings toggle to change the “unwatched” indicators to “watched” indicators, I’d be absolutely over the moon with joy. Thanks again! Love you, @james — you’re the best!)