Unusual handling of "The [artist]" and "[artist]" songs

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There's an issue (found on both the Market and beta versions) where two artists 
who have a name differing only by "The " at the front of one will only have one 
entry in the Artists view (for example "The Enemy" and "Enemy", which only 
shows "The Enemy"). Then when you press on that artist, it will only show the 
songs for "The Enemy", with the only way to find the songs by "Enemy" being to 
search.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aml.cur...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2012 at 11:07

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Are you using iTunes?  Could iTunes be Stripping the "The" sending it out?   
Definitely worth investigating.

Original comment by mellowaredev on 16 Jun 2012 at 12:13

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Any update on this issue?

Original comment by mellowaredev on 15 Jul 2012 at 2:39

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Happens to me too. I'm fairly certain I had this problem with my iPod, so it 
may be how iTunes reports the artist. I'll check it out on my iPod later and 
definitely look into this.

Original comment by chrisjd...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2012 at 5:04

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Here is a post I found from 2007 about itunes...

"Note that iTunes will give you control over how things are sorted. The last 
few iTunes releases include sorting options which become part of each song's 
tag. So, you can choose to include or exclude "The" in the sorting (or any 
other word or character). Whatever sorting you choose, the song or artist will 
appear "normal" but will be sorted however you define it to be. These sort 
option settings can apply to a song name, artist, album, album artist, 
composer, or show, giving you complete control over how things appear."

Original comment by mellowaredev on 15 Jul 2012 at 5:10

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Do you know where this option is? I've never seen anything like that.

Original comment by chrisjd...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2012 at 5:16

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I believe it is part of the ID3 Tag spec according to this post so you would 
have to update that Artist in iTunes.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20021216052217481

I am going to Mark Invalid because this is an ITunes issue not a TR+ issue as 
my MonkeyTunes does not have this issue.  So it is clearly iTunes mucking it at 
the server before it sends it to TR+

Original comment by mellowaredev on 15 Jul 2012 at 5:19

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