When I play a CD, Windows Media player 10 displays the album and track info
as "Unknown". If I perform "Find Album Info" it works just fine and displays
the correct album and track info. However, when I click on "Finish" to update
the info, no update actually occurrs. Windows Media still displays Unknown
for both album and track info. I've changed numerous options, etc., etc., all
to no avail. Can anyone point me to a fix for this? I understand that I can
type the info in manually, but what a pain! That's the whole point of having
the computer grab the info automatically, then I don't have to type in track
and album info for 20 tracks per CD!

stampede wrote:
> When I play a CD, Windows Media player 10 displays the album and track info
> as "Unknown". If I perform "Find Album Info" it works just fine and displays
> the correct album and track info. However, when I click on "Finish" to update
> the info, no update actually occurrs. Windows Media still displays Unknown
> for both album and track info. I've changed numerous options, etc., etc., all
> to no avail. Can anyone point me to a fix for this? I understand that I can
> type the info in manually, but what a pain! That's the whole point of having
> the computer grab the info automatically, then I don't have to type in track
> and album info for 20 tracks per CD!

It's a sporadic problem in WMP that's been around since at least the
last version, and the reason why I rarely bother with the feature
anymore. While some folks claim doing this or that 'fixes' the problem,
I think that it is just coincident with the service coming on line again
.... it will almost certainly just start working again after a day or two.

If it *never* updates, that sounds like a corruption of the Media Library.

Is the Media Library otherwise functional?

You can reset the library via-
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary
, which should fix CD-track association.

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"stampede" <stampede@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6BEC9EB-5F4C-4B81-ADA0-8FD27AB344DE@microsoft.com...
> When I play a CD, Windows Media player 10 displays the album and track
> info
> as "Unknown". If I perform "Find Album Info" it works just fine and
> displays
> the correct album and track info. However, when I click on "Finish" to
> update
> the info, no update actually occurrs. Windows Media still displays Unknown
> for both album and track info. I've changed numerous options, etc., etc.,
> all
> to no avail. Can anyone point me to a fix for this? I understand that I
> can
> type the info in manually, but what a pain! That's the whole point of
> having
> the computer grab the info automatically, then I don't have to type in
> track
> and album info for 20 tracks per CD!