ITunes ignores the "The" in artist names, but...

iTunes ignores the "The" in artist names, but is there a way you can get it to ignore "The" is other languages, such as "Les" for French and "Die" for German?

The simple answer is Yes, but you will have to do it manually for each song.
Select the song that contains the "Les" or "Die" and right click and select get info.
Go to the sorting tab.
The second row has artist and sort artist.
You want to keep the "artist" box the same and under the "sort artist" box, type in the name without "Les" or "Die"
iTunes does this automatically for some words such as "A", "An" or "The"
but if you want it done for other words, you have to do it manually.
Hope this helps.

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I don't think I'm going crazy, but I could have sworn my iPod went from ignoring "The" at the begging of artist names to recognizing it. For instance, The Clash used to be with the other "C" artists. But it's now with the "T"s. What gives?

I think the OP's problem is that the "The's" are currently not being ignored for sorting, but he would like them to be. A reset should fix this. Normally iTunes/iPod will auto-populate the sort fields to drop the leading articles *a, an* or the. If you want *The Clash* sorted under T instead of C then you need to manually set the sort artist field to *The Clash* instead of the greyed out Clash that would normally be displayed.
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iTunes seems to ignore the "the" prefix in song names.
However, when one of my songs for example is named "The World". I refuse to call it "World" just because iTunes has this ridicilous limitation.
So I wanted to ask, how do I disable this?

iTunes intentionally ignores articles (a/an/the) at the beginning of text for the purposes of sorting. "The Beatles" get sorted under B not T. You can override the default behavior by putting the original non-sort values in the corresponding sort field. So if you want a song called "The World" to appear with other songs that begin with T (in a lists sorted on song name) then change the sort name to "The World", instead "World", or leaving it blank.
If you want to completely eliminate this auto-sorting feature you should be able to adjust a file called SortPrefixes.plist (location dependent on OS) and remove the entries you don't want. You will probably have to reapply this fix after each iTunes upgrade and I don't believe the effect carries through to your devices.
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It looks fine on iTunes, with the proper artist name under the cover, but it changes to various artists when synced to the iPod. I set it on compilation, like I did when it worked about a month ago. I took off the compilation on Get Info and then I get the multiple covers again. Anybody else have this problem?

If they are all the SAME artist, you shouldn't need the Compilation checkmark. If they aren't the SAME artist, you would need it checked, and in Cover Flow, they will show up as "Various Artists" followed by the Album's Name.
If that doesn't help you, go to the Music section of iTunes, sort by Album Name, and select all the songs in an Album. Choose Get Info, and select pretty much EVERYTHING. If they are all the same Artist, fill it in and make sure it's checked, fill in the Album Name and check it, Genre's can be different, Volume adjustment can be different, the Year CAN be different, I believe.
Then, if the Artist is different for the songs, Compilation should be selected.
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When sorting, Itunes ignores "The" of my artists names

When sorting, Itunes ignores "The" of my artist name.
Is it normal?
Like "The Offsprings" is sort with my "O" artist.
Is there a way that I tune would recognize it?

Ok but its weird, itunes recognize The on my bros laptop and not on mine.

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Hi everyone,
So I have this file with songs from everywhere. I spent quite some time now to make sure that the structure of each file's name is as such : "Singer - Song name", hoping that everything would be read by iTunes accordingly. However, either iTunes read it well, or it didn't read it at all ("Singer - Song name" appearing in Title alone), or iTunes read the "media" of the file (ie. what the guy I downloaded it from wrote for it in the Preferences, which usually is in capital letters or with a bunch of weird underscores). As I'm OCD and need everything to be neat, I'm highly tensed right now. I really want everything to be neat and clear!
So, how do I make sure that iTunes reads the files' names such that it knows the structure is "Singer - Song name"? Thanks.

iTunes doesn't use file names to determine how music appears in your library, Rather, it uses metadata that is split between:
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data elements that are included in the entries in the iTunes database
No amount of reorganization, renaming or other manipulation at the file level will make any difference to how songs will appear in iTunes. Using your example:
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the value of the artist element is "Elvis Presley"
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Depending on how you configure iTunes then the file name is either:
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Including "The" in artist names when listing in I-Tunes

Is there a way to prevent I-Tunes from dropping the "The" from artists names when listing them in I-Tunes and on my I-Pod?
For example, when I scroll through artists, I don't want "The Beatles" to be listed between artists "Bass 305" and "Billy Idol", but rather within the "T's".
The problem is that I-Tunes also exports the songlists with "The..." in the artist name, which means my printed list is in different artist order, so I can't make a one to one match up. So an alternate solution would be to set I-Tunes to drop the "The" on artist names when exporting to a list.
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Rod--
Glad it worked out for you...
I can't believe I got an answer to this question so fast.
It's kind of similar to another complaint, which is that the localizations for other languages sometimes don't include "The" any more, so people whose language was set to French or German were looking for a way to put it back. So I just made the leap from addiing it to just trying to comment it out...
you have to use the remote control to type the 3 digit # of that artist or album.
How does that work if you have more than 999 albums or artists?
It also makes me wonder how I-Tunes would handle the artist "The The"? Infinite loop?
Well, that is their address, so maybe. Seriously, though, it just finds the first "The " and puts it at the end. If you look at the lines you commented out, they're in pairs. The first is the search string and the second string tells iTunes how to replace it. So "The The" would end up as "The, The" for sorting purposes.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are a couple troubleshooting articles that I would recommend going through.
iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: Fix unexpected quits or launch issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1717
iTunes for Windows: Unable to install or open
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