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Bit confused...

 

When the place started we all sort of got together and decided to call things Band Name, The.

 

But The Stone Roses official DLC is listed as "The Stone Roses".

 

 

I am about to update a Stone Roses song of mine and not really interested in changing the Stone Roses, The listing status (as it will remain with all the other CDLC) and I am wondering on the official CF way of listing bands with "The" as the first word?

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I wasn't around anywhere near the beginning of CustomsForge when these policies were set, but The Rolling Stones have been in Rocksmith (and Rocksmith 2014 for anyone with the disc import tool or whatever) as "The Rolling Stones" from the beginning, right?

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RS offcial DLC are list with the "The" where it should be in the artist name but it isn't used in the sorting decision which makes The Stone Roses appear on the letter S and not T, same for the The Rolling Stones that appear on R and not T.

 

I don't know who magically decided Band name, The was the right way but it's clearly not the RS devs way.

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I meant listing in the CF database not in game.  I know it should order as "S" in game, which makes sense.

 

What does not make sense is having official DLC listed in the CF database under "The", which is the opposite of how the game works and how every other Stone Roses song is listed in the database.

 

On further reading, however, it seems that most Rolling Stones database entries are listed as "The Rolling Stones" (albeit with some random permutations amongst the entries).

 

So my question relates to the CF database not the game, and I am just curious to find out if there is a preferred CF etiquette for listing bands with "The" in the title in the CF database?

 

I am going to go with "The Stone Roses" is correct and "Stone Roses, The" is wrong.  I am also going to say that UK Looney made me do it :D

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In the DB so far there's no rule set for that.

 

It's true that indicating the "the" in front of the name make the artist appear in the T category instead of the letter that it will be shown under in RS

 

The most important point is that everyone stick to the same notation to avoid artist being listed twice in the artist list inside Ignition and so far official DLC posted have the "the" put in front so i would suggest to follow that notation first to avoid duplicate artist listing.

 

I'll report that to the ignition dev for the next version to take that into consideration to try to match RS display if possible.

 

Note that this doesn't really matter for the search function anyway :D

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How should customs by The The be filed then?

 

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I would suggest to use the same way it's entered for official (ex : The Rolling Stones, The Stone Roses, etc.) to avoid duplicate artist name in the list.

 

I've put the word about it to the Ignition Dev and we'll see how it's gonna be managed in the next version ;)

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@@Darrken summarized the use of "The" and "A" very well here

 

The CDLC files store two sets of data for Song and Artist:
Song Title
Song Title Sort
Artist
Artist Sort

The Sort fields determine where the song/artist appears within the game when you're browsing through the list of songs. For this reason I use the Sort fields when renaming the files. If, for example, you had a CDLC file for The Cure song "A Forest", here's what it might look like:
Metadata
Song Title: A Forest
Song Title Sort: Forest
Artist: The Cure
Artist Sort: Cure

 

The toolkit accommodates the above naming method in the Creator tab.  Look for "Song Title Sort" and "Artist Sort" fields in the Song Information group box.  Here's where "The Beatles"  can become "Beatles, The" or just "Beatles" if you are so inclined.

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