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Mine hasn't been working for a long time and didn't bother looking for solution. I might try whatever anyone provided here.
Windows Media Player Will Not Find Album Info
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New #12
VLC may have the album retrieve ability that WMP had. There are many other third-party media players. I'd just ditch WMP.
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New #13
Windows Media Player album info not working
This is what I found by clicking on the windows icon in the lower left of windows media player
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New #15
Try This Alternative
After much searching I bumbled :) upon "MusicBee". It will get you album info and you can even add lyrics.
To do so click on MusicBee at the top left, then tools, then rip CD and all the album info appears just like it did in WMP. For the extra touch click on the music tab after the rip, select all your songs, right click, auto tag by track, update missing lyrics and presto. You may need to install or upgrade the .NET framework first but it's worth it. Enjoy!
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New #17
WMP feature loss is MS marketing forcing Win 10
Not being able to download/display CD data is a sly way for MS to push more users into Windows 10 without completely disabling Media Player. Since all commercial CD's for the last thirty-plus years have had that data encoded, having that info transferred to WMP is the real window dressing of that program. Take the feature away and make it more inconvenient and, well you know the rest. I read the piece from Ghacks.net and the statement they claim from MS that they discontinued fai....metadata service was because of "customer feedback" is a bunch of hogwash. Why would customers not want one of the most attractive features of WMP? It worked fine and nobody that I know of complained.
My thoughts: Did WMP get data directly from the CD or was fai.xxx necessary for that data to be recorded??
And, since I'm naturally paranoid when it comes to anything that MS does, maybe all of us Win 7 diehards should immediately turn off automatic updates since there isn't any forthcoming support from MS. Sort of like locking the back door to keep out the pests.
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New #18
We do not get metadata from the CD anymore (me I do not have them and do not need anymore WMP), no fai. xxx too...this was end of WMP, MS killed it.
If you really want to turn off Windows Update you could always do it by => execute => services.msc and at bottom of list choose "Windows Update" AND "Service Background Intelligent Transfer", edit properties, set to "manual" or "unactivated" and set also to do nothing if fail to start...do the same in control panel, windows update, modifying properties and uncheck all boxes.
Last edited by NoN; 24 Feb 2020 at 18:41. Reason: edited
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New #19
well that sucks. I've been using WMP for years and i've been searching fora replacement for YEARS! NO THIRD PARTY PLAYER HAS WMP FEATURES!
I've tried musicbee, winamp, vlc, fubar YOU NAME IT, i've looked it up and or tried it! i've spent hours upon hours at various points over the YEARS. none of them have plain old boring straight list view WITH album covers listed from # to Z. i have over well 22,000 songs (more than 4 or 5 weeks of play times non stop) i can sort and scroll thorough at glance by album covers in list view order!!! NOT the itunes store / music bee style. and if i do make that switch by force then it will be multi platform cloud based (and local) like Jelly Fin or something
...i don't know... for yearsa fella had the perfect large library sifting power houses he needed for only playing MP3s and ripping CDs with album info
EDIT: works on windows 10 but, not 8.1 at least not industry pro
EDIT: you can try and copy over media player folder AND registry from 10 to 8.1 but, if you try to launch that exe it will prevent you.
you oculd run a minimal win 10 VM just for WMP
EDIT: someone smarter may know how to make router rule to force redirect redir.metaservices.microsoft.com to musicmatch-ssl.xboxlive.comLast edited by cdoublejj; 21 Jul 2020 at 15:24.
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