Media Player web address for album info changed in recent Windows 10 upgrade

Anonymous
2018-05-06T16:38:03+00:00

After a recent major upgrade for Windows 10, my Windows Media Player is trying to find Album information from a new website that does not work.  The old web address was (fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com) and new web address it is using is (musicmatch-ssl.xboxlive.com) which is not a valid address.  How do I change the web address used for album metadata back to correct address?  Searched old message boards with no luck.

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Anonymous
2018-07-07T13:27:41+00:00

Found a solution that worked for me:

  1. Start regedit.exe
  2. Navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\TunerConfig"
  3. Look for setting PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER -- it should have a value "pmpMusicMatch"
  4. Edit the setting PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER, and clear the value so you have a blank value
  5. Save / exit regedit.exe
  6. Restart Windows Media Player, you should be restored back to fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com

What an unnecessary pain in the proverbial.

Update: this DOES NOT WORK any more.

Microsoft appear to have strangled this option off entirely. We are now stuck with the much lesser offering that is "musicmatch-ssl.xboxlive.com".

Microsoft: thanks for nothing.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-09T11:26:31+00:00

    Found a solution that worked for me:

    1. Start regedit.exe
    2. Navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\TunerConfig"
    3. Look for setting PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER -- it should have a value "pmpMusicMatch"
    4. Edit the setting PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER, and clear the value so you have a blank value
    5. Save / exit regedit.exe
    6. Restart Windows Media Player, you should be restored back to fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com

    What an unnecessary pain in the proverbial.

    Thanks Tom: very much appreciated.

    Tried this but no 'TunerConfig' listed so couldn't progress any further - any idea's - thanks - so infuriating!

    Chris

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-09-08T21:14:19+00:00

    fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com entra a su cuarto mes down

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-06T14:41:22+00:00

    Thanks Microsoft for just dumping (fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com) with no replacement. Typical complete lack of care for your customers. Obviously it wasn't making you any money any more despite the billions of pounds of profits your earn each year you felt it necessary to do this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-30T00:58:30+00:00

    Si No se puede mostrar esta pagina, no hay maxipuente de ecovia de Thalia

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