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
    2018-08-10T18:54:50+00:00

    Thank YOU, TomAustin

    They need to pin your post at the top!

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-11T16:13:22+00:00

    Thanks Tom!  This is it!

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-14T11:39:47+00:00

    Bravo 'Tom Austin'. This worked for me. Don't go and work for M'soft. It would be a waste of talent! :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-19T02:02:56+00:00

    Bloody Marvellous... Thank you TomAustin. That made it so easy to follow and understand for a person that has reasonable computer knowledge. I would never have known where to start to fix this. Thank you thank you thank you :)

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