Normalising artist tag characters to avoid duplicates

Hi

Is it possible for the media scanner to ignore common variants of Artist names to avoid duplicates in the Artist list?
(I'm sure this will have been asked before but I couldn't find the answer.)

For example normalising "The", &, 'and', punctuations and case variants would prevent these from all being listed as different artists:

The Smiths
Smiths, The
2 many dj's
2 Many DJ's
2 many dj"s
Babes in toyland
Babes In Toyland
Belle & Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian
Belle And Sebastian


Yes I know I could spend (even more) time with mp3tag but it'd be really handy to have an LMS scanner option to do this automagically.