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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