Windows Media Center Guide not Updating TV Listings from Zap2It past tuesday.21.07.15

Anonymous
2015-07-19T09:23:20+00:00

Overview:  Windows Media Center (WMC) is provided TV Listings, via the WMC Guide, from Zap2It.  If you go to the Zap2It TV Listings website*, there are approx 2 weeks of upcoming TV Listings.  When the WMC Guide is Updated, & functions correctly, those same 2 weeks of TV Listings are downloaded to WMC.  If we could use the Zap2It website to program the recording of TV programs, then we wouldn't need the WMC Guide to be downloaded. 

It's very early sunday asof this posting; the WMC Guide hasn't actually Updated for ~9 days... there are only TV Listings through this tuesday, in ~3 days.  The WMC Guide Update seems to run just fine, it's connecting with the site or source or whatever/wherever it gets the Guide from... but it say, "The Eps Listing Is Already Up To Date", even though, clearly, it is NOT 'up-to-date'.  I'm now getting, 'You've only got 3 days of listings!, you need to update the Guide !' scare-messages every time I go to WMC, & I click to Update the Guide, but just as when I manually run it, just as when WMC automatically runs the Guide Update, it ain't actually Updating! 

To be clear:  I'm using Win7Pro64bit; all--ALL--updates, for all software, Windows & otherwise, are daily checked & constantly kept up-to-date; there have been no changes to the computer, & it runs like a dream; WMC works the same, the WMC Guide Update works exactly the same, the only exception being this, "The EPG Listings Package is already up to date" thing, when it hasn't actually Updated the WMC Guide. 

So PLEASE don't post those standard, boilerplate replies about updating Windows &or clearing caches &or other such sophomoric hooey...  The problem is almost certainly with the Microsoft/Windows/WMC/Zap2It interface. 

You can go to the Zap2It website* yourself!, go there!, see for yourself!, the next 2 weeks of TV Listings are right there!... 

 ... so, why aren't those TV-Listings--already & always present--being actually downloaded to WMC?, why isn't the WMC Guide being Updated? 

 ... thank you! 

w 

[* http://zap2it.com/ | http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ ]

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Anonymous
2015-07-21T03:48:22+00:00

Hello hank1111, 

You might check out this thread, especially the most recent replies, bottom of page 3 I think: 

Windows Media Center Guide Not Updating

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_xp-pictures/windows-media-center-guide-not-updating/8721f207-a694-43ce-bf38-6105968af080

I am NO expert on any of this stuff, but if ya' twisted my arm, I'd suggest the same possibility to you as I did to RW: 

"If you've still got your Windows OS CD maybe you could try removing & then reinstalling Windows Media Center entirely?... I'm sure there's a way to do this, but you'd want to get explicit instructions from someplace/someone who knows what they're about.  Also, if it's possible to do a total removal/uninstall & reinstall, -vs- some sort of 'repair', I would do the full thing, as the mere 'repair' might leave old, outdated WMC Guide EPG files that might bring you right back to this same sorry state-of-affairs!" 

 ... good luck hank! 

w

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-03T00:48:06+00:00

    I'm getting the impression that a big part of the problem is that Rovi is not ready for prime time.  Why Microsoft ditched Zap2it for Rovi is a mystery to me.  Haven't they heard that if something isn't broke don't fix it?  Probably has something to do with palm greasing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T18:46:57+00:00

    Sorry, not sure - I abandoned Vista a long time ago...

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T18:39:09+00:00

    I have MC 2005 and also cannot locate the "MediaCenterRecoveryTask". My MC continues to download the guide successfully; but it's always the Zap2it guide. Which no longer works.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T18:37:09+00:00

    Hi-

    What version of MC are you using? I have MC 2005 and cannot get it to switch over from Zap2it to Rovi. Even after running the setup again as you described. It successfully downloads the guide; but it's always the Zap2it guide, not Rovi. And the Zap2it guide, although up to date, no longer works.

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