Count spaces before a "("

[ohrenkino]

There are players that support the ~sort fields, e.g. iTunes, foobar.

What you could still do, if the ~sort field is not evaluated:
Put the data without "The" into the field TITLE and the original data in TITLESORT.
If you find a better program that can deal with the TITLESORT field, swap the fields, see the FAQs for that

Actions and batch-operations

How to swap the contents of 2 tag fields? Example how to swap TITLE and ARTIST: Create a new action in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Guess values Source format: %title%~%artist% Guessing pattern: %artist%~%title% Note: The ~ sign is just used to separate the two fields, you could take any other sign that does not appear in your fields, e.g. ¢ or an extended unicode character like ∞ or ∑.