-=> 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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   best.   
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