When I started to play with XBMC and imported all of my DVDs they were sorted with all “The ..” under T.

This isn’t surprising however there is a simple way to make the sorting ignore “The ..”.

Just create a file called advancedsettings.xml in your XBMC/userdata folder. This folder is app specific, more about this here.

<advancedsettings>
	<sorttokens>
		<token>the</token>
	</sorttokens>
</advancedsettings>

And here’s how it’s with the file: