WMP10 find album info

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:25 am

Before I reformatted my hard drive, WMP would always find the cd and songs on the cd when I played it, it would show titles and the Album name.

Now it doesn't. I don't know why. These are original cds that have worked in the past but now WMP10 sin't able to 'recognize' them. I can play them just fine, but it doesnt display any information. When I click on 'find album info' it goes to another site and is able to recognize the album, but when I click finish, it goes back to the 'now playing' page and the information hasn't changed.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:38 pm

Insert generic non-helpful suggestion to switch media players here.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:40 pm

ok, any suggestions?

Plebeian · Post by **Plebeian** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:44 pm

Only have 9 on this computer, but check the Privacy options. There's an option to look up data for your CDs/DVDs in there. I'd expect it's still lurking in there in 10. Just make sure it's checked. If it's already checked, no idea.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:49 pm

Winamp for audio. CCCP/MPC for video.

Winamp can do freedb lookups on CDs.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:50 pm

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:29 pm

LOL at:

"Send unique player ID"
&
"Send player usage data to Microsoft"

Restate: Generic entreaty to switch $#%@ing media players, F00 !!!111

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:30 pm

yeah, I switched those on to see if they would fix the problem, but, no

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:30 pm

heh I have those "off" by default but I had to go check on all my 'puters just in case.

Plebeian · Post by **Plebeian** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:51 am

No idea, ccb.

"Display media information from the Internet" should be the proper option you'd need, and it's obviously selected. And you can get information if you request it.

I don't see why it would be this, but have you made any changes to your firewall lately? Really haven't had any problems with my WMP, certainly nothing like that.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:54 am

I don't have a software firewall, just a hardware (router with spi)

Half the time I reformat the partition, it works, the other half it doesnt.

Plebeian · Post by **Plebeian** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:12 am

I think I'll have to answer with "WMP10 hates you".

Or maybe it's Windows. In any case, Bill Gates probably has a back door into Windows and is having fun breaking things for people.

Maybe someone else has some ideas. (Other than "don't use WMP". I'm sure he's aware of other options. WMP actually isn't that bad, IMO.)

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:33 am

whats funny is this is a prime example of insanity: expecting a different result using the same process

I reformated the exact same way every time, however, half the time WMP does this

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:27 pm

DRM gone wild? Hmm uninstall WMP 10, clear downloaded update files folder... get a new dl of wmp 10 at windows site. I prefer 9 over the advertising in 10.

Re install direct x?

Take a look at Divx and install their codecs.

Hope this helps.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:19 pm

unfortunately, its impossible to uninstall wmp10 or directx

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:25 pm

Make sure that the songs are in the WMP music library.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:27 pm

they dont have to be on the hard disk, I'm just playing an audio cd

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:26 pm

ccb056 wrote:unfortunately, its impossible to uninstall wmp10 or directx

Can you rollback to 9?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... 4.mspx#ENH

http://www.donloper.com/miscellaneous/h ... er_10.html

re-install direct x

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:04 pm

you guys are brillant, rolled back to wmp9 and it works, going to try and upgrade again, see what happens

edit: just finished updating, works, thx very much

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:19 am

Awsome, went through something similar a while ago.