Windows Media Player 12: 500 Internal Server Error

Well not a 500 error :/
This came from Keith for Gary's video it didn't come with album art but it has it now after opening it in wmp I had previously only opened it in window movie maker for the video,
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Java, flash player have nothing to do with this I believe. I know on fresh clean just windows 7 and updates (nothing else installed) windows media player 12 could find album information no problem.

Also since people are all suddenly reporting the issue now, it has to be something on the server side.

To reproduce, go to an album in WMP and right click, find album information.
To clear things up, this is the screenshot of the issue people are getting within windows media player 12:

Ha well if the java script is wrong because the resource has been altered how can you say it's not java script :)

ThrashZone said:

Ha well if the java script is wrong because the resource has been altered how can you say it's not java script :)

Java is different from java script. I said java above not java script. I edited the above to add the fact how to reproduce the problem.

And a clean vm has the same issue. So defiantly microsoft end.

I'm not getting that error so mine is a bit different probably means nothing though.

You really should of remove the java and flash pointer because I never said anything about either
My error clearly says URL .........Default.js

Someone mentioned it before in the thread, but its not there now.

It is weird that your error message is different.

I don't have allot of crap installed including Java from Oracle
But either way wmp would use ie to access this site and out of date java applets are blocked now even if the resource had been removed the applet remains,

So if there is a machine where this actually worked without error comparing the url....js would be an interesting task :)

ThrashZone said:

I don't have allot of crap installed including Java from Oracle

Neither do I.......Nothing java or adobe.

I haven't had WMP on my system for a while ...

I went directly to the URL
http://fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com/
and received the error

That doesn't really pinpoint anything, other than my machine doesn't have the credentials or the URL requires that credentials are supplied in the call (through WMP).

Anyway, isn't there an alternate metadata server offered in the dropdown list of WMP? Like I said, it's been a while since I had WMP.

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I think there is a rebuild Library option - but be careful !!!

The metadata store is located in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player (I think) - you might want to copy the folder to a safe place before mucking around too much with WMP libraries - but the references might be GUI, so a copy won't buy you much without backing up the registry keys associated with the metadata.

Additional resources:

Add or change album art in Windows Media Player

• Where does album art come from?
  
• Where can you view album art?

Media information in Windows Media Player: frequently asked questions

How do I tell the Player to automatically fix the media information in my files?

The Player can automatically scan the files in your library and download missing media information or attempt to fix incorrect media information. To change this setting, do the following:

1. Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player.
   
   
   If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button Picture of the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player.
   
   
2. Click Organize, click Options, and then click the Library tab.
   
   
3. In the Automatic media information updates for files area, select the Retrieve additional information from the Internet check box.
   
   
4. Do one of the following:
   • If you want the Player to only add media information that is missing from your files, click Only add missing information.
     
     
   • If you want the Player to overwrite all the media information in your files, click Overwrite all media information.
     Use caution with this option. If you manually modify media information in your files, this option will potentially overwrite all of your changes

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If it solely a Server issue (500 server error seems to point there) nothing will help until the Server or reference to the server is fixed.