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Subject: Re: QUESTION PLEASE about NZB searches with no titles shown in results
From: Niamh <Niamh@nospam.com>
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Herb Thymebaum <Herb@GardinersGrove.com> wrote in
news:s0qedatobpq31qpsudot7vlk8j3j7kvoie@news.giganews.com:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:45:02 GMT, Niamh <Niamh@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>Herb Thymebaum <Herb@GardinersGrove.com> wrote in
>>news:r06cdahivavp051p1elpe0qkfls5eheif7@news.giganews.com:
>>
>>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:22:40 GMT, Niamh <Niamh@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Instead of the name of films there are numbers posted only in the
>>>>resulted searches for NZB files. Does anybody know if there is some
>>>>sort of registry somewhere which can give the actual names of the
>>>>films?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>> If you're referring to files uploaded to moovee or mom, not any more.
>>> There used to be a site listing the films uploaded and the codes
>>> pointing to them, but it went down a month or so ago. No explanation,
>>> and no one seems to know just why, but it's not up these days. Maybe
>>> that clique's members have the code conversions available, but not
the
>>> rest of us. Don't know whether they got DCMA hassles or just what.
>>>
>>> Unless someone else has a method, the only one I've found is to open
>>> an nfo, an srr (in notepad), or a jpg that might accompany the files.
>>> Like nfo's, the srr's have a lot of pictorial crap in them, but you
>>> can usually find the title easily enough.
>>>
>>> Obviously, that won't apply directly from the NZB search engine.
You'd
>>> have to do the periodic download of headers and search those files
>>> individually. Maybe set up a watch/downoad filter to speed up the
>>> process, though opening each one is still a nuisance. A PIA, to be
>>> sure; but I'm not privvy to another method yet.
>>>
>>> Perhaps some of the other regulars here may have a less painful
method
>>> up their sleeves.
>>>
>>> Herb Thymebaum
>>>
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>>
>>Thanks Herb,
>>
>>What I have been doing is to download the first rar file and see what
is
>>inside. Mostly appear to be American TV series.
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>Niamh
>
> My experience has been that most of those with the nonsense alphabet
> mix filenames tend to be current US televivion shows, so I ignore them
> right off the bat. (Won't watch the crap on television; why would I
> want to waste bandwidth downloading it??).
>
> But the majority of those with the five or six digit numerical title
> tend to be movies, many, though certainly not all, classic-type
> films. The recent upload of Unearthly Stranger was among those digit
> filename uploads.
>
> I found that opening the tiny srr file and reading it was much quicker
> than downloading the first one or two rar's and opening them. There's
> a lot of stuff uploaded that I have no interest in, and I'm not about
> to spend the time opening rar's to find out that most of it is of no
> interest to me, when I can open a text file in a second or two.
>
> Herb
>
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>
Thanks Herb for the tip. I'll try that method in future.
There are so many films out there, with names, which are traps. They are
always in a folder. Either a virus or are passworded. "In the Good all
Days" things were much more straight forward and honest :-)
Niamh
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