How do I get Jellyfin to sort movies alphabetically?

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How do I get Jellyfin to sort movies alphabetically? - aide199 - 2025-10-19

Hi Guys,

I've just transferred over from Plex to Jellyfin and was wandering if anyone can please tell me how I can get Jellyfin to sort my movies alphabetically, so that I haven’t got movies like 'The Accountant' being sorted under 'a'

Jellyfin server is running on Windows 11

Thanks in advance

RE: How do I get Jellyfin to sort movies alphabetically? - theguymadmax - 2025-10-19

config → settings.xml
Replace:

Code:
  <SortRemoveWords>

    <string>the</string>

    <string>a</string>

    <string>an</string>

  </SortRemoveWords>

With this:

Code:
<SortRemoveWords />

Restart the server after making the change. Then rescan your library and using the "Search for missing metadata" option.

RE: How do I get Jellyfin to sort movies alphabetically? - aide199 - 2025-10-20

That's done the trick.

Many thanks for the info

RE: How do I get Jellyfin to sort movies alphabetically? - theguy - 2025-10-22

I'm seeing a config/system.xml in a pretty new installation only.

Are you saying to update the SortRemoveWords section there, or is there a kind of override file settings.xml that I should also be using?

NVM, found this comment elsewhere: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-sort-including-the-definite-article-the?pid=65179#pid65179