From c8876dde8e4647fd15db9160392c5ea21cee1398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry <henryoberholtzer@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:08:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix The artist behavior with artists with 'the' string in the
 name

---
 beetsplug/titlecase.py         | 10 ++++++----
 test/plugins/test_titlecase.py |  9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beetsplug/titlecase.py b/beetsplug/titlecase.py
index 51cc8a12a..5309885f1 100644
--- a/beetsplug/titlecase.py
+++ b/beetsplug/titlecase.py
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ class TitlecasePlugin(BeetsPlugin):
                     init_field[0], str
                 ):
                     cased_list: list[str] = [
-                        self.titlecase(i) for i in init_field
+                        self.titlecase(i, field) for i in init_field
                     ]
                     setattr(item, field, cased_list)
-                    self._log.debug(
+                    self._log.info(
                         (
                             f"{field}: {', '.join(init_field)} -> "
                             f"{', '.join(cased_list)}"
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ class TitlecasePlugin(BeetsPlugin):
                 elif isinstance(init_field, str):
                     cased: str = self.titlecase(init_field, field)
                     setattr(item, field, cased)
-                    self._log.debug(f"{field}: {init_field} -> {cased}")
+                    self._log.info(f"{field}: {init_field} -> {cased}")
                 else:
                     self._log.debug(f"{field}: no string present")
             else:
@@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ class TitlecasePlugin(BeetsPlugin):
             callback=self.__preserved__,
         )
         if self.the_artist and "artist" in field:
-            titlecased = titlecased.replace("the", "The")
+            titlecased = titlecased.replace("the ", "The ").replace(
+                " the", " The"
+            )
         # More complicated phrase replacements.
         for phrase, regexp in self.preserve_phrases.items():
             titlecased = regexp.sub(phrase, titlecased)
diff --git a/test/plugins/test_titlecase.py b/test/plugins/test_titlecase.py
index d641c5b5d..2babe20ed 100644
--- a/test/plugins/test_titlecase.py
+++ b/test/plugins/test_titlecase.py
@@ -101,18 +101,21 @@ titlecase_test_cases = [
     },
     {
         "config": {
+            "the_artist": True,
             "preserve": [""],
-            "fields": ["artists", "discogs_artistid"],
+            "fields": ["artist", "artists", "discogs_artistid"],
             "force_lowercase": False,
             "small_first_last": True,
         },
         "item": Item(
-            artists=["artist_one", "artist_two"],
+            artist="pinkpantheress",
+            artists=["pinkpantheress", "artist_two"],
             artists_ids=["aBcDeF32", "aBcDeF12"],
             discogs_artistid=21,
         ),
         "expected": Item(
-            artists=["Artist_One", "Artist_Two"],
+            artist="Pinkpantheress",
+            artists=["Pinkpantheress", "Artist_Two"],
             artists_ids=["aBcDeF32", "aBcDeF12"],
             discogs_artistid=21,
         ),