Fixing Windows Media Sharing filenames not updating
I use my Windows Media Player to share media over the server. One of the problems we have, however, is that our media names are confusing due to weird naming schemes by various groups. My apartment has established a standard naming scheme (Show Title.SeasonEpisode.Episode Name.ext), but it wasn’t showing up as the new names once we changed them. It seems that Windows Media Player will see the newly named file, but keeps the old name as the file display name. What you have to do is delete it from your WMP library and then rescan those folders. That solved it for me.