Fixed: Sorting of some titles with acronyms or common words at the start

Closes #4839

src/NzbDrone.Core.Test/TvTests/SeriesTitleNormalizerFixture.cs

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Test.TvTests
     public class SeriesTitleNormalizerFixture
     {
         [TestCase("A to Z", 281588, "a to z")]
-        [TestCase("A.D. The Bible Continues", 289260, "ad bible continues")]
-        [TestCase("A.P. Bio", 328534, "ap bio")]
-        [TestCase("The A-Team", 77904, "ateam")]
         public void should_use_precomputed_title(string title, int tvdbId, string expected)
         {
             SeriesTitleNormalizer.Normalize(title, tvdbId).Should().Be(expected);
@@ -23,6 +20,12 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Test.TvTests
         [TestCase("The Good Wife", "good wife")]
         [TestCase("The Newsroom (2012)", "newsroom 2012")]
         [TestCase("Special Agent Oso", "special agent oso")]
+        [TestCase("A.N.T. Farm", "ant farm")]
+        [TestCase("A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-", "aico incarnation")]
+        [TestCase("A.D. The Bible Continues", "ad the bible continues")]
+        [TestCase("A.P. Bio", "ap bio")]
+        [TestCase("The A-Team", "ateam")]
+        [TestCase("And Just Like That", "and just like that")]
         public void should_normalize_title(string title, string expected)
         {
             SeriesTitleNormalizer.Normalize(title, 0).Should().Be(expected);

src/NzbDrone.Core/Datastore/Migration/166_update_series_sort_title.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+using System.Data;
+using FluentMigrator;
+using NzbDrone.Core.Datastore.Migration.Framework;
+using NzbDrone.Core.Tv;
+
+namespace NzbDrone.Core.Datastore.Migration
+{
+    [Migration(166)]
+    public class update_series_sort_title : NzbDroneMigrationBase
+    {
+        protected override void MainDbUpgrade()
+        {
+            Execute.WithConnection(UpdateSortTitles);
+        }
+
+        private void UpdateSortTitles(IDbConnection conn, IDbTransaction tran)
+        {
+            using (IDbCommand getSeriesCmd = conn.CreateCommand())
+            {
+                getSeriesCmd.Transaction = tran;
+                getSeriesCmd.CommandText = @"SELECT Id, TvdbId, Title FROM Series";
+                using (IDataReader seriesReader = getSeriesCmd.ExecuteReader())
+                {
+                    while (seriesReader.Read())
+                    {
+                        var id = seriesReader.GetInt32(0);
+                        var tvdbId = seriesReader.GetInt32(1);
+                        var title = seriesReader.GetString(2);
+
+                        var sortTitle = SeriesTitleNormalizer.Normalize(title, tvdbId);
+
+                        using (IDbCommand updateCmd = conn.CreateCommand())
+                        {
+                            updateCmd.Transaction = tran;
+                            updateCmd.CommandText = "UPDATE Series SET SortTitle = ? WHERE Id = ?";
+                            updateCmd.AddParameter(sortTitle);
+                            updateCmd.AddParameter(id);
+
+                            updateCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/NzbDrone.Core/Parser/Parser.cs

@@ -472,9 +472,8 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Parser
         private static readonly Regex TitleComponentsRegex = new Regex(@"^(?:(?<title>.+?) \((?<title>.+?)\)|(?<title>.+?) \| (?<title>.+?))$",
                                                                 RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
-        private static readonly Regex WordDelimiterRegex = new Regex(@"(\s|\.|,|_|-|=|\|)+", RegexOptions.Compiled);
         private static readonly Regex PunctuationRegex = new Regex(@"[^\w\s]", RegexOptions.Compiled);
-        private static readonly Regex CommonWordRegex = new Regex(@"\b(a|an|the|and|or|of)\b\s?", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
+        private static readonly Regex ArticleWordRegex = new Regex(@"^(a|an|the)\s", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
         private static readonly Regex SpecialEpisodeWordRegex = new Regex(@"\b(part|special|edition|christmas)\b\s?", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
         private static readonly Regex DuplicateSpacesRegex = new Regex(@"\s{2,}", RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
@@ -705,9 +704,8 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Parser
 
         public static string NormalizeTitle(string title)
         {
-            title = WordDelimiterRegex.Replace(title, " ");
             title = PunctuationRegex.Replace(title, string.Empty);
-            title = CommonWordRegex.Replace(title, string.Empty);
+            title = ArticleWordRegex.Replace(title, string.Empty);
             title = DuplicateSpacesRegex.Replace(title, " ");
 
             return title.Trim().ToLower();

src/NzbDrone.Core/Tv/SeriesTitleNormalizer.cs

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Tv
     {
         private static readonly Dictionary<int, string> PreComputedTitles = new Dictionary<int, string>
                                                                      {
-                                                                         { 281588, "a to z" },
-                                                                         { 289260, "ad bible continues"},
-                                                                         { 328534, "ap bio"},
-                                                                         { 77904, "ateam" }
+                                                                         { 281588, "a to z" }
                                                                      };
 
         public static string Normalize(string title, int tvdbId)