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Old title: Windows Media Player giving wrong info....
I try to rip my music CDs to Windows Media Player but my recent new albums it gives me the wrong album info why is this? any clues.
Cheers
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It's possible that WMP incorrectly identifies a CD as another album. To fix this, look up the album info manually: right-click one of the tracks, select Find album info , search for the correct album, and follow the remaining steps of the wizard.
Tim De Baets
If you go to the All Music Guide database (which is used by WMP), and the information there is incorrect as well, you should be able to correct it there.
Also, if you make corrections through Find Album Info, that information might be used to correct the database in the future.
This problem occurs if you are outside of the countries listed in the media guide. Being in Australia, we are not even listed as a country, and the music information is not updated with the volume of artists we have putting music out every week.
If you don't want to enter all the information yourself, use another ripper that uses a database that is kept up to date.
Hi there,
It seems there are two main causes to this problem.
You need to check both.
Solutions for the first one abound, and are about turning off the privacy setting so you stop getting incorrect information from the internet.
An excellent solution for the second one is provided by Shekhar.
I would add to it though. In Windows 7 I was not able to delete all the files in the directory in question. One of them needed me to stop the Windows Media Player Network Sharing service. So, by starting Task Manager, viewing Services, and then clicking the 'Services' button at the bottom, I got the dialog where I could stop the service. Then I could delete the final file in the directory. Then the problem was fixed.
Hope this helps.
BP
WMP definitely used All Music Guide in the past, but I'm not sure if it still does. New releases are always tricky, as it may take some time before the info is added to whatever database WMP uses. You could try submitting the correct info yourself, through Find album info.
