Subj : Re: I win again!
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Barry Davis Jr
Date : Fri May 27 2016 10:49:00

-=> Paul Quinn wrote to All <=-

 PQ> Hi! All,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 PQ> Cheers,
 PQ> Paul.

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I love Total Commander, the features it offers over other file managers is the
best.
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