Hi there,

I wonder if anyone can help with this. I've got some new CD's for
Christmas, I want to add them to media library on Media Player
V10.00.00.3646.

WMP gets redirected to another window, which says
"metaservices.windowsmedia.com" The album info displayed is correct,
but when I click "finish" as instructed, the CD still shows as
"unknown album, Track 1" etc.

Any suggestions as to where to look, please?
--
PacMan
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
snore and you sleep alone"
- Anthony Burgess

PacMan wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help with this. I've got some new CD's for
> Christmas, I want to add them to media library on Media Player
> V10.00.00.3646.
>
> WMP gets redirected to another window, which says
> "metaservices.windowsmedia.com" The album info displayed is correct,
> but when I click "finish" as instructed, the CD still shows as
> "unknown album, Track 1" etc.
>
> Any suggestions as to where to look, please?

It's a bit of a buggy feature and does this from time to time on
versions 9 and 10. Emptying the cache in Internet Explorer is supposed
to help(although I hardly ever use IE and the problem still occurs).

Your other option is to manually enter the track information.

It was round about Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:50:44 +0000,, when the famed
Mike Williams was struck by a sudden insight:

>It's a bit of a buggy feature and does this from time to time on
>versions 9 and 10. Emptying the cache in Internet Explorer is supposed
>to help(although I hardly ever use IE and the problem still occurs).

Haven't used IE for months (FireFox is default browser), deleting all
offline content, cookies, setting security settings to minimum or off
doesn't help.

>
>Your other option is to manually enter the track information.

I may be reduced to doing so. Fine for a couple of CD's, but I have
several I'd like to take around with me.

Thanks for the help.
--
PacMan
"I loathe people who keep dogs.
They are cowards who haven't got
the guts to bite people themselves."
- August Strindberg

That that should be something different, since you're *getting* the data and
just can't write it.

What brand of computer do you have? Does running "regsvr32.exe wmp.dll" fix
this up after you restart the player?

--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"PacMan" <pacman_225@fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> It was round about Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:50:44 +0000,, when the famed
> Mike Williams was struck by a sudden insight:
>
>>It's a bit of a buggy feature and does this from time to time on
>>versions 9 and 10. Emptying the cache in Internet Explorer is supposed
>>to help(although I hardly ever use IE and the problem still occurs).
>
> Haven't used IE for months (FireFox is default browser), deleting all
> offline content, cookies, setting security settings to minimum or off
> doesn't help.
>
>>
>>Your other option is to manually enter the track information.
>
> I may be reduced to doing so. Fine for a couple of CD's, but I have
> several I'd like to take around with me.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> --
> PacMan
> "I loathe people who keep dogs.
> They are cowards who haven't got
> the guts to bite people themselves."
> - August Strindberg

It was round about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:34:14 -0800,, when the famed
zachd [ms] was struck by a sudden insight:
>
>That that should be something different, since you're *getting* the data and
>just can't write it.
>
>What brand of computer do you have? Does running "regsvr32.exe wmp.dll" fix
>this up after you restart the player?

Aha! Windows - run - regsvr32.exe with "wmp.dll" as an argument fixes
it.
Seems to recognise the CD OK again after restart. Do I need to do this
every time?
--
PacMan
"When a man's best friend is his dog,
that dog has a problem" - Edward Abbey

It was round about Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:20:40 +0000,, when the famed
PacMan of the dreaded Unit 1691 the Lumber Cartel (tinlc) was struck
by a sudden insight:
[..]
>Seems to recognise the CD OK again after restart. Do I need to do this
>every time?

Stupid question. Forget I asked it, sorry ;-)

TYVM for the help.
--
PacMan
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing
look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that
basically dogs think humans are nuts."
- John Steinbeck

Nope, just this once.

I'm pretty certain you have a Dell, by the way. ;-)

And hey: do you have a system restore point before you fixed this up? I'd
be interested in knowing exactly what registry setting the OEM is screwing
up here... =\

--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"PacMan" <pacman_225@fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> It was round about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:34:14 -0800,, when the famed
> zachd [ms] was struck by a sudden insight:
>>
>>That that should be something different, since you're *getting* the data
>>and
>>just can't write it.
>>
>>What brand of computer do you have? Does running "regsvr32.exe wmp.dll"
>>fix
>>this up after you restart the player?
>
> Aha! Windows - run - regsvr32.exe with "wmp.dll" as an argument fixes
> it.
> Seems to recognise the CD OK again after restart. Do I need to do this
> every time?
> --
> PacMan
> "When a man's best friend is his dog,
> that dog has a problem" - Edward Abbey

It was round about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:43:15 -0800,, when the famed
zachd [ms] was struck by a sudden insight:
>
>Nope, just this once.

Thanks for that.
>
>I'm pretty certain you have a Dell, by the way. ;-)

It's a Packard Bell something or other, Windows XP SP2.
>
>And hey: do you have a system restore point before you fixed this up? I'd
>be interested in knowing exactly what registry setting the OEM is screwing
>up here... =\

I have got a restore point, but it could have been almost anything -
this is set to download and install MS updates automatically.
--
PacMan
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to
turn around three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley

The only thing "we" are aware of that causes this is a box/OEM configuration
issue. So knowing what registry keys the registration of wmp.dll wrote that
weren't already present would be of strong interest to me. But it's kind of
a hassle, since you'd have to system restore, export out your registry
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software), verify the failure, run regsvr32 wmp.dll,
verify success, and then export again and either compare those files or have
me compare them for you. =\

Regardless, thanks. Good to know you're good to go. =)

--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"PacMan" <pacman_225@fsmail.net> wrote in message
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> It was round about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:43:15 -0800,, when the famed
> zachd [ms] was struck by a sudden insight:
>>
>>Nope, just this once.
>
> Thanks for that.
>>
>>I'm pretty certain you have a Dell, by the way. ;-)
>
> It's a Packard Bell something or other, Windows XP SP2.
>>
>>And hey: do you have a system restore point before you fixed this up? I'd
>>be interested in knowing exactly what registry setting the OEM is screwing
>>up here... =\
>
> I have got a restore point, but it could have been almost anything -
> this is set to download and install MS updates automatically.
> --
> PacMan
> "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to
> turn around three times before lying down."
> - Robert Benchley