changing titles

jonno · **15th August 2007, 06:58 PM**

I,m new to media center and have recorded a few tv shows and want to change the title from manual recording to name of show.Looked in help which said to go to add recording ,channel and time, change title but I have no channel and time to click on. Can I only put title on before its recorded? Thanks Jon

KingHilary · **15th August 2007, 07:48 PM**

Hi Jonno,

I think that you should change the title before the show records in most cases.

However, I do not see why you can't just go into your recorded TV folder and change the file name. This should change the title. Just keep the ms-dvr extension. I can't remember if I have actually tried this. Now I change the title at the time I take the commercials out and convert to some other format, if I have forgotten to do it earlier.

Let us know how you get on.

King Hilary.

jonno · **16th August 2007, 07:03 PM**

Thanks for the reply.Ive tried changing the titles on the files but does notseem to change the name in the media center.I cant believe a simple thing like this is seemingly so hard or is it just me! jon

JNRidgway15 · **16th August 2007, 07:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonno

Thanks for the reply.Ive tried changing the titles on the files but does notseem to change the name in the media center.I cant believe a simple thing like this is seemingly so hard or is it just me! jon

Give this app a Try its just a simple MS-DVR Data editor made by Stephen Toub.

Let us know how you get on

jonno · **16th August 2007, 08:43 PM**

thanks for the edit program tried changing title in it but still comes up as Manual Recording in Media Center.Starting to go crazy now! shouldnt have to restart computer should I? Also is there a wake up feature for recording? Ive got to say Ive worked with more user friendly programs ! Jon

jonno · **20th August 2007, 10:02 AM**

Just wanted to thank JNRidgeway again for the edit program.I did mean Media Center when I was Talking about a un user friendly program! No luck with the edit program changing title from manual recording to something else even though Ive changed the name in recorded tv file and with the edit program. Any one else got any thoughts? thanks Jon

kidwizz · **29th August 2007, 09:54 PM**

This is what i do, (i'm running vista) i just use vista to change what i want. then i created two .bat files.

the first called 'rename dvr-ms to xx.bat' and in it has the command 'ren *.dvr-ms *.xx'

the second called 'rename xx to dvr-ms.bat' and in it has the command 'ren *.xx *.dvr-ms'

Note the actual commands dont have the (')'s.

And to get MC to reload the data. run the first .bat 'rename dvr-ms to xx.bat' then load up media centre go to recorded tv and wait a few minutes until it refreshes and it is no longer showing.
Then close down MC and run the second .bat 'rename xx to dvr-ms.bat'
Then start up media centre again and it should load the new data.