# Was this song the theme to The Rockford Files?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, music\
**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-song-the-theme-to-the-rockford-files/999220 "2024-03-22T20:04:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-song-the-theme-to-the-rockford-files/999220/9 "2024-03-23T14:19:07Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Thanks! I kept getting errors for some dumb reason.

It’s well documented now that you need to do some special tricks to post a previewable vid. This started abut a year ago.

Annoying, but vids are easy enough to do once you know the trick. Here’s about the most coherent explanation of what’s happening and how to outsmart it so your vids post correctly:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170):
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> I’ve seen a few links to this thread from other threads, but the information is a bit scattershot, so I think it’s worth summarizing. The bug occurs because Discourse now sees a YouTube preview–that is, the inline video as compared to a bare link–as a “media item”. We don’t allow media items on this site for cost reasons, but in this case it’s a bug because the video is hosted elsewhere. And this is new behavior. Discourse takes a few seconds to convert a bare link into a preview. That is t…

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