ITunes 12 no longer renames files when "title" field updated?

I let iTunes do the organization of my media folder. In the past when I've added video files to my library, I use the "get info" to update the tags (title, name of show, season, etc...). iTunes would dutifully change the name of the original file in the media library folder to some formula that read the tags from the actual file - [episode] [title], for instance.
When I "upgraded" to iTunes 12, this functionality stopped working, and iTunes doesn't rename any of the files any more. I seem to be stuck with whatever name my DVR software chose for the file. Any way to get iTunes to resume its previous behavior?

There appears to be a bug with the way the current version processes updates to video files. You can go into Edit > Preferences > Advanced, turn Keep iTunes Media folder organized off, click OK, then turn that option back on again to resolve. Hopefully the next release will fix this but in the meantime you will need to apply the workaround each time you update something that is affected, or not worry about it.
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