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
    2018-12-06T17:24:57+00:00

    no puedo buscar  información sobre canción o autor

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-06T21:36:47+00:00

    I downloaded i tunes and ripped cd using that which gave album info, then downloaded a file converter to change from M4A to mp3 format .Bit long winded but works!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T14:55:28+00:00

    still not working for me, in my regedit the whole string for "PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER" was not there to start with Ive now added this with a blankl value but still get a message saying check address for the music.metaservices instead of the xboxlive one?

    in my regedit i now have default PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER (added it myself) refreshAfter but looking at various sites there still appears to be missing strings is this my issue?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T16:45:02+00:00

    My Windows 10, version 1803 registry entry looks like this:

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