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
    2019-01-30T06:55:31+00:00

    This worked for me prior to the update Jan. 23, 2019. Now I am unable to clear the binary entry to blank, still shows 0000 and will not let me clear or backspace when editing. Still stuck with ssl.xboxlive.com.  I want to go back to fai.music.metaservices,microsoft.com so that I can edit and search album info.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T15:30:48+00:00

    Thank you so much! This has been frustrating me so much & you made the instructions very simple, thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-24T13:41:38+00:00

    I don't have PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER in TunerConfig  how do i add it?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-12T00:32:19+00:00

    Worked great, thanks!

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