fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com cannot access

This is what happens when corporate bullies at Microsoft are trying to force you to update. 

Microsoft remain silent, and then in the background disable key features, then pretend it's all about you, because Microsoft don't and never will admit they are ever wrong, or their crappy systems are often complete duds, broken or unfixable.

That's what endless bloated forums were created for - so you do the work to fix their problems, so they don't have to. Gone are the days of fixes and patches - Microsoft have a monopoly so don't care about you, the functionality of your operating system, or your computer. Period.

Just as long as you regularly buy a bright and shiny new system every time Microsoft demand you do so, is all they care about - Oh, and rip off subscriptions.

I have found a perfect solution that works great - it's called BUY APPLE HARDWARE. While they aren't a perfect company, they do at least tell the truth when they are dumping parts of systems and let users know what features they are disabling, removing, or upgrading - rather than leaving users in the dark, to work out for themselves they've been scammed by the very system they've paid for, and expect to be fit for purpose - and then to spend countless hours trying to fix the unfixable!! 

How about a little bit more honesty from Microsoft Corp?? Just hearing from someone might be a start, some one who isn't a moderator or volunteer, but someone who actually works there??

I'm not great with computers but I am getting better and I agree 100% with what you said.

Time to look for new prospects and remedies.  Thanks.

Dear all

as so many of you have said it's one of those things that drive you insane. I've found a work around, well, a way of temporarily working around it. Having tried WMP and WMC and having no luck, I stumbled on the following programmes that so far have been working, although there are a few extra steps to take.

For the past few days I've been using Cdex which has done a good job on naming the tracks and you can also add album art to it. It retrieves  all the metadata and is fairly quick.

You do have to do a bit of a set up such as where you want to save the ripped CD too. I just chose 'My Music', but it really only takes an extra minute or so. I then google the Album Artwork and save it to a file folder. Can then add the artwork for the CD in the program before doing the rip.

The important thing is to choose CDDB in the toolbar and then click on 'Read Remote freedb'. At this point ( I think it was at this step) you have to enter an email address to activate it. I'm not a fan of that but haven't had any increase in junk or spam emails.

It works fine with Windows Media Centre and VLC, but Windows Media Player won't show the artwork whilst the others do. I think this is again highlighting that Microsoft are trying to dictate to us what they want us to use. I'm on Win 7 Home.

Anyway, here's the link.....  https://cdex.mu/download

https:  //  cdex.   mu  /  download     (expanded just in case MS delete it on here)

Best of luck!!

As an add-on to my above post with regards to WMP not recognising album art after creating said file(s) using CDex. Well, once the files have been added to the WMP library, then the album art is shown whether you open a track from inside WMP, or just by opening the file from inside a folder. 

Hopefully this will be of help to any of you looking for a work-a-round.

Cheers - W-W

Good afternoon, those who want this to be fixed, click on the link that I will send to vote in favor of the request in the Windows 10 Comments center so that fai.metaservices.microsoft.com in Windows Media Player is again linked .

https://aka.ms/AA5gida

https://aka.ms/AA5gida