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Every time I right click a file in Media Library, click "information", change the file name and click "save metadata", everything appears fine until I return to the file to play it again and then the file reverts back to the original name. How do I prevent this from happening, and have Media Library remember my changes? Thank you.

Ok. I read all of the help and i am still having issues. My files are not MKV or MP4. Everytime I try to change the name of the movie, it reverts back to the original garbly gook. I have taken the steps outlined in the guide that was given to the other person. I still see garbly-gook when I play my file. I am trying to view TV series and some downloads are better than others. I am trying to eliminate the ones that require the AVI Index to be built before playing. Unfortunately, because both files have the same garbled name as some others, I can't tell which one it is.

For example: On my external drive the episode is listed as... "MOVIE TV - Stargate SG1 (ENG ALL Season01 Episode18) Solitudes.avi". When I play it on DivX or any other media player the name is as shown. VLC is the default player but, when I play the episode there the screen says... "PeterPaulMary SG1 777 yes". No matter how many times I have tried to change it through Media Information, it reverts to the same undefined garbled mess. When I changed the extension and saved the file, it didn't play at all. Help Please.

The solution is to remove metadata tags from multimedia files, especially title tags. For AVI files try abcAVI Tag Editor or find some other tool on the Internet.