The latest update of BBMO has changed the way sorting happened. Now suddenly songs like A Hard Days Night, A Horse With No Name, The Chair, etc. are filed under H, H, and C respectively instead of where I would naturally look for them under A, A, and T respectively.
I know The, A, and other articles are often not part of a name/title and thus have to be filed differently but in these cases, and many more I can cite if you want, the A, and the The are part of the song names. For instance, it’s not Hard Days NIght, A or Horse With No Name, A,
Anyone else agree or am I just being picky? (I had to find songs I thought I had lost or had accidentally been deleted because of this change, so I might be a little aggravated.)
Other than that rant, I’m off to pack up for a 3 hour gig tonight and I have my playlist. Keep fighting the good fight!
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Hi Scott,
Thank you for reporting this! Could you please attach a screen recording of the issue? That way, I can reproduce it on my end and report it to the team. Thank you!
It is in the changelog notes of the latest update for BBMO. The sorting algorithm is ignoring words like “the” and “a” and I’m suggesting that sometimes (especially with song names) the “the” and the “a” are important part of the titles. For instance, the song A Hard Days Night by the Beatles, I would never think to look in the “H”s. But that’s where it is now. If you need to duplicate just name some songs with A and The and you will notice when sorting that the songs are sorted by the 2nd word, ignoring the A and The.
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Hi. I for one support the idea of ignoring A and The. But it would be nice to have a user preference setting to choose the option to respect or ignore. It’s refreshing to read your post because I assume everyone likes the option to ignore A and The. A personalization setting would be nice to make everyone happy.
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Having the option would be a great fix.
Thank you for posting your request! I’ve forwarded it to the team for consideration.