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[Enhancement]: Natural titles when using "Ignore prefixes when sorting" #2695
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Originally created by @n1ghtBl00d on GitHub (Apr 1, 2025).
Type of Enhancement
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Describe the Feature/Enhancement
When using the "Ignore prefixes when sorting" option, it correctly sorts the titles ignoring the words specified (In my case, I ignore "the", "a", and "an"). However, it moves those to the end when displaying the titles in my library (For instance, "The Eye of the World" becomes "Eye of the World, The". I'd like an option to keep sorting by the second (so that book would be sorted into the "E" section while still displaying as "The Eye of the World"
Why would this be helpful?
It looks more natural to keep the unaltered title while sorting with the modified title. Rather than forcing a big block of books that start with the word "the" and alphabetically sorting those within themselves, I prefer to have them sorted by the next word. However, I don't like changing the appearance of the title how it does when I'm looking at my library. Other similar apps such as Jellyfin have been able to successfully do this.
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Audiobookshelf Server Version
2.20.0
Current Implementation (Screenshot)
@jcmitch commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2025):
+1 for this feature.
I'd love to see it implemented like Plex where there is a new "sort title" field auto-populated with the title minus these definitive articles but allow editing to something else if desired.