Windows Media Player with wrong Find Album Info link

Anonymous
2018-06-15T01:03:47+00:00

My Computer just did the latest update then all of a sudden whenever I go into Windows Media Player and go into Find Album Info the Find Album Info Cache link is musicmatch-ssl.xboxlive.com instead of the usual fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com, Can anyone please help me change back to fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com I got a lot of Albums with the wrong information and I need fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com in order to sort everything out.

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Anonymous
2018-07-18T21:36:59+00:00

It's amazing that Microsoft hasn't fixed this. It's a bug that they seemed to have ignored. I found the fix on a different site and it's relatively simple, but you must edit the registry 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 of "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

I hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-10-26T01:19:28+00:00

    I never used 8 or 8.1 because it was brain damaged in my opinion. I stayed with Windows 7, which was automatically upgraded to 10. Since I've never used 8, I have no idea what you need to do.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-24T10:40:57+00:00

    Thankyou Gene_918

    Been searching for this answer for 2 weeks

    stumbled onto your page and wahala!!

     30 seconds later FIXED

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-19T11:17:44+00:00

    It's amazing that Microsoft hasn't fixed this. It's a bug that they seemed to have ignored. I found the fix on a different site and it's relatively simple, but you must edit the registry 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 of "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

    I hope this helps.

    I'm sorry Gene but your solution does not seem to apply to those of us using windows 8.1. Have you found a work-around for those not using Windows 10?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-10-18T17:40:59+00:00

    It's amazing that Microsoft hasn't fixed this. It's a bug that they seemed to have ignored. I found the fix on a different site and it's relatively simple, but you must edit the registry 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 of "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

    I hope this helps.

    i found the setting for PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER -

    but when i look to edit it  in the column headed Type , i find this... REG_DWORD

    and

    in the column headed Data i find this

    0x00000001 (1)

    so how do i edit this ?

    thanks

    ron

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