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

Thank you, TomAustin.  Even I was able to make your solution work in spite of my forgetting how to find and start the regedit.exe program.  I had to do a Google search and quickly found how to find it on my Lenovo Windows 10 laptop by "asking Cortanna" to start it for me.  I have not had to use regedit.exe for a couple of years, but I remembered what it was going to do - I just had to find it.

Tom's solution is as follows:

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  Restart Windows Media Player, you should be restored back to

fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com

As soon as regedit.exe began to run, I remembered what things were and was quickly able to follow Tom's instructions to where I wanted to remove the "pmpMusicMatch" value.  At that point I had to figure out I had to "Modify" the value via the menu selection above, but I did get past that point fairly easily.  Tom's last instruction to Save/Exit at this point stumped for a minute or two until I finally realized I would Exit the editor by clicking on the "X."  I restarted Windows Media Player and sure enough the web file finder had returned just as he said.

Again, many thanks to Tom Austin.

Best wishes,

Dave Wile

Impresionante!

Gracias Tom por tu colaboración.

Una cosa tan simple los de Micro$oft se niegan a brindarla.

Cada día que pasa me gusta más MacOs. Esos tipos son serios y grandes de verdad,

Saludos desde el Sur del planeta tierra (Argentina).

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.

Worked perfectly!

Thanks EdMarinello

Your solution worked for me too :-)

It is so simple - so it is strange Microsoft has not corrected it.

Other suggesions was to uninstall Windows Update 1803 and that is just not a good solution. In any way...

Best regards,

Thomas