Album Sorting and Folder Naming

[Jerkyboy]

First off, let me say, SKJB is awesome! I trialed some pay programs and I'm glad I found this one before I bought them.

I'm looking for some insight on how others sort their albums in SKJB? The problem I'm having is that groups that begin with "The" (The Cars, The Hooters etc.) all sort to the Ts section. Also, artists sort to the letter of their first name (Billy Joel sorts to Bs , not Js). Logically, I would think most people looking for Billy Joel would look under J, not B. I know I could change the album folder name to force it to sort correctly, but I don't like the look of the program when the artist displays "Joel, Billy" under the album name. Does anyone have any suggestions on how they've gotten around this?

[SalmonKing]

The only suggestion I can make is a manual one, I'm afraid.  If I took the first word & moved it to the end, you'd end up with 'Hot Chilli Peppers, Red' or 'Day, Green' in your list, which would just look silly.  With bands that start with 'The', I put that at the end of the name ('Cars, The').

[Jerkyboy]

Thanks.

You might want to consider having the option to use an alias for the display. In other words, name the artist directory "Cars, The" for sorting, but allow another option for naming the display in SKJB "The Cars". Then you can have the best of both worlds.

[SalmonKing]

So, if I see a comma in the name, move the text after that to the front of the name for display purposes only?  I'll see what I can do......

[Jerkyboy]

That would work!

Thanks!