topic Re: Sorting title stoped ignoring artcles (the, a, an) in Android

Sorting title stoped ignoring artcles (the, a, an)

Helmi_rat — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:57:23 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

FP2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S3

Operating System

Android 7.1.2 (FP2) and Android 8.0.0 (Samsung)

My Issue

Since the last Spotify update this Sunday the sorting function for Title has stoped ignoring artcles (the, a, an). Sorting by Artist was still working correctly, but has gone wrong too after the update of last Wednesday.

Update May 9th 2024, (new phone: FP4, Android 13)

A while after I posted this Spotify switched to the standard way of collation, but strangely only for English articles (a, an, the). I have quite a few Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish songs/artists in my playlists and this is starting to annoy me, since these are grouped together when I sort by title. So please draw an equal playing field by ignoing all articles from all languages.

Re: Sorting title stoped ignoring artcles (the, a, an)

ElainaD — Sat, 04 May 2019 02:42:20 GMT

Thanks for reaching out to the Community, @Helmi_rat!

This is simply a feature of the newest version of Spotify. Alphabetical sorting now counts articles at the beginning of song or artist titles as the first word when sorting, so now titles that start with "The" will appear under "T" titles and titles that start with "A" or "An" with be with the "A" titles.

I hope this helps!

Re: Sorting title stoped ignoring artcles (the, a, an)

Helmi_rat — Sat, 04 May 2019 15:11:37 GMT

No Eliana, calling this a feature does not help. In fact, calling it a feature does not make it a feature, because that would mean it had added value. I cannot find any value in disregarding a standard way of collation (and yes ignoring articles is standard, just walk into a recordstore and look for albums of 'the Doors' to name a band). I have seen posts of people wanting to change the way Titles/Artists were sorted and I guess this triggered the change. But I feel the real feature would have been to give those people the choice by providing a toggle and not by making the choice for all of the Sotify comunity by changing the sorting itself.