Subj : I win again!
To   : All
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Fri May 27 2016 20:20:31

Hi! All,

I had a win the other day, with Windows 8.1.  It all started a couple of years 
ago, with a .MP4 movie.  Some of you may know it: The Long Ships (1964), with 
Richard Widmark starring in the leading role as a Viking who had found the 
basis in fact of the myth of an enormous golden bell.

These days I usually view the movie on my lounge room TV, in full HD. It's 
handled via a (hardware) media player device, streaming the flick from over the 
household LAN.  The device accesses the LAN via a UPnP/DLNA server (software) I 
have running on my Ubuntu PC.

The media player can't do netbios networking though it can do TCP/IP, to browse 
EwwToob for example.  It's supposed to be able to do Windows shares but it 
can't/won't.  Like all fancy media-related doovers these days, the DLNA server 
likes to maintain an index of accessible media which is regularly re-indexed at 
some arbitrary interval.

Anyhow... at some time some years back I must have had a need to rename the 
file, using possibly DOS or maybe a Linux file management tool.  The renaming 
worked but screwed up the DLNA server index, which referred to the movie 
henceforth as "na".  Yep, it got indexed as na!

It seemed an insurmountable pain but when I calmed down, I felt comfortable 
with the knowledge that for all time I would always know the correct movie 
title.  Oops... this is getting bigger than Ben Hur's script... I'd better wrap 
it up quick...

The other day I downloaded another short video from a site other than EwwToob, 
and its filename in the index revealed some random serial number NOT the 
filename!  Well, that blew my cool!  I was livid.

So, I got to poking around with my faithful Total Commander (any file manager 
would do).  I checked the latest file's "Properties" and found a tab I'd never 
seen before called: 'Details'.  Wow!  There it was in the 'Title' field: the 
serial number.  Windows was offering an edit field, so I took the opportunity 
to null it and clicked the [OK].

I waited and waited till the DLNA server re-index finally updated. Whoo!hoo!  
There it was!  A filename!  Not the damned serial number.

As it turns out, .MP3s are similarly blessed with a Details property. There are 
probably other file types but I can only devote so much time to playing with 
*stuff* these days.

Don't anyone tell me you knew about this already.  Please don't...  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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