Find Album Info

I am currently ripping my CD collection to a central hard drive. Until
yesterday I was able to put in the disc, select the "Find Album Info" tab and
it would give three options, the last option was to edit information. (Which
I used frequently) Now when I select "Find Album Info" there are no options
and it just brings up a search page. I cannot edit the information before I
rip the CD. The only thing I see different is the web address displayed when
you select "Find Album Info" it says fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com.
It used to say: metaservices.microsoft.com. I have not updated anything! so
I do not know why it changed. I really want to be able to edit the CD
before it is ripped. I am currently using WMP 10 with XP. Any suggestions
how to get the options back instead of this stupid search page would be
greatly appreciated.

The find album info pages were recently updated to work better for
"most people", according to MS user feedback.

As you've noted, there's no facility to correct the album info in the
new system. A few other people have also complained about this, at
present there seems to be no side-by-side feature to run both systems.

Can't use Wmp because of this change. The change is not good. Can't find any
records anymore and i have about 3000 reciords to ripp into my harddrive.
Seems like i have to use Itunes insted. Why change into somthing that dosen't
work??

I tried it over the weekend, and to the right of the album art, I
could see an Edit link which allowed me to modify the FAI myself.

This was tested in WMP9 which uses the same web page, so have a quick
look to see if you can see that link when you try another disk.

The fai service is garbage. I have ripped a number of CDs to my hard drive
recently and ALL have been mis-labeled. I am screwing off microsoft, they
suck! Gonna go for jet audio I think. Their resources and their lists of
albums are much more extensive. And the player actually works, goddam shitty
media player... See ya Microgay, you just lost yourselves another customer.

The album backend between both players is very different: free services have
some advantages, GraceNote (nee CDDB) has some advantages, AMG/co have some
advantages. It's a give and take. I'm glad the JetAudio metadata backend
is to your liking. These are collosal databases, so it's hard to find the
sweet spot: the right people are working constantly on improving.

Note that if CDs from certain vendors are frequently misidentified, you
might want to suggest to them that they ensure their metadata is available
in online metadata services such as AMG and GraceNote: that's probably the
quickest route to the most satisfaction by all.

I have to say I agree with screw MS. I have started to rip my daughter's CDs
to the PC, and every single one is mislabelled. It's ridiculous! This worked
fine before, so why not now. Don't tell me that they didn't copy the meta
data from the old system to the new one..... It's just Mickeysoft not caring
or testing once again. I am a developer and if I released software with as
many problems as microsoft, I'd be out of a job.

I will have to use something else to rip the music rather than Media Player,
which is I must agree again, pretty poor anyway.

Is there actually anyone from Microsoft doing anything about this??? I
suspect not...

The metadata services aren't managed by Microsoft. I believe every CD app
uses either Muze or GraceNote. It looks like your CDs data is wrong or not
present in the database. Perhaps the CD producer never submitted that data
to Muze/GraceNote?

The problem with the software is there is no way to correct problems or even
notify the data base owner of problems. I understand some of us are woking
with obscure artists and albums. For instance the 1987 Michael Jackson Bad
album was, perhaps, not too popular. The software left out the 8th track. I
searched the database and found the correct 11 track album information but
the 8th track does not post to WMP. Users are simply stuck with no options
and no where to turn. It worked before but I lost the prior information when
converting from XP to Windows 7 and had to recreate my WMP database.

Please remember the purpose of the product is to provide functionality to
users. This does not acheive that objective.

WMP uses the All Music Guide (AMG) database. Corrections for incorrect
entries can be submitted through their website:
Just search for an album, and click the Corrections for this Entry?-link.

Thanks for the information. I have used AMG in the past and have had good
results. They properly list the tracks for Michael Jackson's Bad album. There
must be a problem with how the information is processed by WMP. As I stated,
the WMP database simply dropped a track and you cannot do a work around. WMP
simply needs to allow more user flexibility to correct database problems.

[sonman]

Have to disagree. WMP is now using FAI Music. States that it is through Microsoft. The location states " fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com " as plain as daylight on the edit section. WMP NEEDS to go back to Gracenote. FAI has wrong information on the same exact CD that Gracenote has the correct information. Not only that, but, with Gracenote, you can make the edit and it will be SAVED!!!

[kc5600]

I can tell you a real easy work around.
When ripping a CD disconnect from the internet.
No information is better than the wrong info.