[mythtv-users] Bug related to ignoring the and a in title ordering

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:33:12 +0100, you wrote:

>Hoi Hika,
>
>Sunday, March 19, 2023, 12:48:56 PM, you wrote:

>>>> Does anybody know!
>
>Setup ->>> General -> General -> Remove Prefixes when Sorting (*)
>
>>> MythTV never actually removes the prefix from the title, it just
>>> ignores the prefix when sorting names.  It sounds like something else
>>> is going on that is causing "Dark Heart" and "The Dark Heart" to be
>>> confused.
>
>>> David
>
>>> * That label needs to be updated to "Ignore Prefixes when Sorting". The
>>> description also needs to be updated.
>
>> Thanks.
>> Either that option was added after 0.27 or it is not present in
>> MythCenter-wide. On the indicated page I only have "Use line edit
>> virtual keyboard" and "Screen shot path"
>
>
>I rechecked everywhere, I even checked the settings table for any
>setting name starting with remove or ignore.
>I guess it was added after 0.27.
>
>I thing I will rename the series to its original Scandinavian name.

I think the setting is SortStripPrefixes:

MariaDB [mythconverg]> select * from settings where value like
'%prefixes%';
+-------------------+------+----------+
| value             | data | hostname |
+-------------------+------+----------+
| SortStripPrefixes | 0    | NULL     |
+-------------------+------+----------+
1 row in set (0.002 sec)