If I set the language on my iPod to French, will it ignore “la” and “le” like it does “the” and “a” in alphabetization when set to English?4:57 PM Feb 3rd from web
I drive an average of 700 miles each week, so I spend a lot of time listening to my iPod. I’ve got 10,000 of the worlds greatest songs in a meticulously maintained library. When I first got my iPod, I would put it on shuffle when I didn’t want to listen to a particular album or artist, but that first iPod seemed to have a fondness for Steely Dan, making shuffle not seem random enough. So I started listening to all the songs in alphabetical order, which separates artists and genres like shuffle would, but in more orderly fashion. Yesterday I heard ten “perfect” songs, “perfect” because the song titles begin with the word “perfect” (“Perfect Way” by Scritti Politti was the the best of those ten, or the perfect song closest to perfection). It takes a little less than a year to get though the alphabet. Sometimes you get double shots by an artist, and there’s always the fun game of trying to guess what song is coming up next. And if you didn’t know, an iPod will skip “a” and “the” in alphabetical order, and also play numbers at the end of the alphabet, which I swear it used to play numbers before letters (was it when I upgraded iPods, was it a firmware change? Weird).
