Artist Name Starting with "The" being changed....

[dre]

How do I stop the software putting ", The" at the end of the artist name if their name starts with "The"? If I want "The Beatles" to be listed as "The Beatles" then where can I set this? I don't want them to be listed as "Beatles, The". While this is fine to change a single artist album I am getting fed up when a compilation album has half the artists changed this way. Sure, if you want "The Rolling Stones" to be listed as "Rolling Stones, The" or "The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band" as "Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, The" that's fine but I don't, I want the artist name to be as listed as it is on the database, Discogs etc and as iTunes displayed names (and ripped them) for me.

[Spoon-]

CD Ripper >> options menu >> CD Ripper Options >> metadata & id tags

Uncheck Replease 'The [artist]' with '[artist], the'

[dre]

AH!! THANK YOU, on a MAC (I'm moving over from 30+ years of windows use) it's DBpoweramp CD Ripper Options. Tags & Filenames.

I'd NEVER have found those settings otherwise. I also found autoreplace, so don't have to (hopefully) have to change every ft/ft. to featuring

THANK YOU

[Luggs]

Hi, I have a similar problem. I have deselected the CD Ripper >> options menu >> CD Ripper Options >> metadata & id tags option, but the artists are still coming through as <bandName, The> e.g. "Clash, The".

I've deselected it. restarted and so on. Got a lot of CDs to rip - any ideas?

Thanks

[Spoon-]

After deselecting it, you would have to click the refresh button to read again from internet.

It is possible that the artist is stored like that in the metadata online?

Check the tags in CD ripper on the ID Tag section before ripping.

[GBrown]

if you want "The Rolling Stones" to be listed as "Rolling Stones, The" or "The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band" as "Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, The" that's fine but I don't, I want the artist name to be as listed as it is on the database, Discogs etc and as iTunes displayed names (and ripped them) for me.

This is where the "sort" tags come into play. ARTIST = "The Rolling Stones" and ARTISTSORT = "Rolling Stones" (or "Rolling Stones, The" for some - not really required since this tag typically isn't visible). Same concept for ALBUMARTISTSORT, COMPOSERSORT, ALBUMSORT, and TITLESORT. This helps to see the names as you prefer, but behind the scenes decent players (including iTunes) will use these sort tags to define the library. Otherwise your library will likely end up with more than half your artists all listed under "T".