To fix this, you can turn off the "Prefer Local Metadata" setting in your media server or use a tag editor to wipe the title property clean. 🧹 How to Properly Rename Your Media
This happens because of embedded metadata. MP4 files are excellent containers, meaning they do not just hold video and audio—they also hold hidden text tags.
If you are a media enthusiast using home server software, you might have noticed a frustrating phenomenon: you have a movie named perfectly in your folder, but it displays on your TV as a messy string of numbers or raw file names.
Let's dive into what these files are, where they come from, and how you can clean them up. 🤖 Why Do Files Get Named Like This?
Many CCTV systems, digital cameras, and specialized medical imaging equipment export video clips using sequential numbers or exact timestamp codes to prevent files from overwriting one another.
If you want to make sure the file name is the only thing your computer reads, use a tool like FFmpeg to strip or overwrite the internal title tags in bulk.
