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
    2019-06-11T09:01:19+00:00

    You must revert update from 1809 to 1803. Do not ever rip with WMP. Always with EAC on secure, 320 kbps with -m s command line option and pregaps set to next track.

    MP3 tag won't add covers like FAI did, especially non-square ones, this is why WMP had beaten all other media players and metadata editors.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-06-12T17:16:45+00:00

    still no fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com

    working...I think they have killed off wmp

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-06-12T23:17:03+00:00

    There are several files named regedit.exe on my Windows 7 Pro machine.   Clicking on each of them generates the error msg "The application was unable to start correctly (Oxc0000142).  Click OK to close the application.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-06-13T01:57:23+00:00

    Reprobe Base de datos 1

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