Windows Media Player shows the incorrect album information.

Anonymous
2010-08-05T23:06:51+00:00

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.

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Anonymous
2010-08-06T14:48:06+00:00

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.

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Anonymous
2011-03-22T16:36:17+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-06T11:41:39+00:00

    Did you try deleting the album and re-ripping it? (You can search for the closest match before starting the rip...) Album art can easily be found online and pasted to WMP after it has been ripped. I would agree that the fai music database used by MS is not that great, but that's not really a WMP problem. Cheers, Ric.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-05T21:29:19+00:00

    Except when when i first put the CD in, The tracks were actually correct, just the album art was wrong. So when you do what you suggest, it replaced the tracks with the WRONG information and i cannot get it to change back, because WMP is a piece of garbage.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-13T10:17:14+00:00

    another thing that is not helpful is the artist tags being different. e.g junior walker and all start, jr walker & the all stars etc

    a classic example is Martha and the vandellas which comes up as Martha reeves and the vandellas, marta reeves & the vandellas. Martha reeves & the vandellas. you get the idea

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