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
    2015-07-29T16:17:44+00:00

    That's what I have found in the past when the Guide would not update. Simply go through the setup process again and the guide should download without any further issues.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T16:15:22+00:00

    The end date that you see when you look at the listings is the date that your last download of the Guide expires. Once you download the new guide, you will see a new expiration date for your latest Guide download which is good for about 2 weeks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T12:11:42+00:00

    Hopefully by now you have had some success. After about 20 tries with different area codes I used one about 40 miles from my own zip code and it still didn't work. But when I got on the computer this morning my Programming guide was up to date and working. Microsoft must have worked some magic during the night to solve my problem. I am not going to put in my proper zip code as this one has all my channels and as they say if it isn't broke don't fix it.  Hope others are experiencing some success. Thanks to all who helped.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T11:01:28+00:00

    7/29/2015 I'm in the same boat as w_ms. everything has been working perfect for over a year. Then the guide just came back as downloaded but no data. I have run everything suggested short of scrubbing the setup and switching to Linux. I was a troubleshooter corporate tech for 16 years but this is really wearing my patience. In the past 2009, 2012 MS admitted it was server sync related. w_ms has come back with Rovi as the guide maybe I'm not sync'd up yet. My Zap2it says it expires 8/7/2015. If this was a corporate problem my boss would be up my a**.

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