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.