Windows 10: Win 10 Windows Media Player (wmp) 12 missing "paste album artwork"

Win 10 WMP 12 was working Ok until about a week ago (Sep 20, 2019) when the "paste album artwork" disappeared. I've tried the recommended sequence to restore it on the menu, but luck. Please help.

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Album art sync with Windows Media Player 11 with bitrate conversion

This is what I understand about displaying album art on the S60 Music Player:

• The album art must be embedded in a ID3 tag. "folder.jpg" and other external artwork are not displayed.

• The album art can be embedded into the music file using Windows Media Player by:
  • using the Pictures tab of Advanced Tag Editor, or
  • dragging an image from a folder to the gray "Paste Art Here" box

• If the music is synced to the phone without bitrate conversion, the embedded artwork (and all metadata, e.g. lyrics) is transferred.

• If bitrate is downgraded during sync, Windows Media Player drops the embedded artwork to save space on the phone. This unfortunately happens even with the MTP protocol, where the phone is supposed to disclose its capabilities (e.g. ability to display album
  art) to WMP.

Can the experienced forum members please point out any mistakes in my observations? My phone is a Nokia E66.

 

Album Info Lookup Windows Media Player 12 / Windows 10 1809 and Groove music

Hello,

Album Info Lookup Windows Media Player 12/Windows 10 1809 : what happenbed to the old site/custom album info option?

Using Windows Media Player 12 / Windows 10 1809

WMP 12 when looking up album info now directs to a different website:

musicmatch.ssl-xboxlive.com

This is an inferior option compared to the prior site and win 1803 :

redir.metaservices.microsoft.com

That original site allowed for custom search options (e.g. modify searches once in lookup mode or to enter custom album data). A very useful option for classical music collectors who often find their low-selling albums listed but incomplete or not
listed at all.



The enclosed solution provided by ....... does not work (was working on win 1803)

"Please perform the following and see if the issue will persist.

1. Press the Windows and R keys simultaneously to launch
   Run command.
2. Type-in regedit and press
   Enter.
3. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\TunerConfig.
4. Look for PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER -- it should have a value "pmpMusicMatch".
5. Edit the setting PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER, and clear the value so you have a blank value.
6. Save and exit regedit.exe."

When open the file (step 4) the PREFERREDMETADATAPROVIDER value is already a blank value.

Need help....

Regards JBLA74

 

Windows Media Player show similar playlist as iTunes with missing traks from the album on Windows 10.

Original title: Windows 10 Media Player

Hi All

As I add Albums to my ITunes Library they automatically appear in my Windows Media Player. However at random some tracks are missing when I view them in Windows Media Player. When viewing in ITunes they are complete. If in WMP I right click on the album
and open file location it shows me the complete list of tracks with the missing tracks NOT highlighted.

How do I get WMP to recognize the missing tracks?

Regards GB