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
    2013-06-09T07:20:41+00:00

    Hi, I am also having a problem with Windows Media Player, in the conversion to 

    Media Player 11 it wiped out all my files on my Windows movie maker as corrupted...

    Quite strange.

    As if that was not bad enough, all my original music, keeps getting flagged as other albums that are not even remotely related as I am singing on my songs, playing my guitar and or keyboards.

    My song came back under Chiccone youth, and like if someone is messing around and renaming my files it showed up on file name, which I did not add...and then Windows Media Player asks me if I want to buy? My Own songs???? Very untrustworthy...At least the old player I was able to change to my own album cover, now I have to delete my songs from the library.

    Read your instructions, will try again, is it possible Original songs are being hijacked????

    Just thought I would ask....

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-09-21T09:14:08+00:00

    I have the same problem.

     All Music Guide has the CD, but i can't find in in WMP's search.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-04-13T21:49:53+00:00

    Jdeakins3, you can enter a search query at the top, or click on one of the genres to get to the database.

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