WinXP users: Media Player problem "Updating Media Library" - FOUND A FIX!!!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 12:18 am

I have a client with WinXP Home. The version of Media Player that comes with it CONSTANTLY pops up a window (and I mean like every 2 - 4 minutes) saying "Updating Media Library" or "Updating Track Information" (it alternates).

This takes a WHILE (like a minute) while a progress bar increases. It's accessing the internet during this time (cable connection).

It's annoying as hell.

There's NO CD in the drive when this happens so I have to assume it's doing this for the benefit of the MP3's she has in her "My Music" folder. I ASSUME it's trying to check/verify/update the MP3 song titles (why, I don't know) from an online database.

There is NO WAY that I can find in the Media Player settings to disable this.

Apparently this is a problem others are having, but I don't know if EVERYONE with XP has it. I've seen several posts in newsgroups about it, but no one has a fix.

Any of you folks know how to disable this stupid thing?

Thanks...

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 7:00 am

Never ran into that one FP, but............ use Winamp or MusicMatch Jukebox as the default player, rather than MS Media Player, and I bet it stops. LMK what you come up with.

sethpa

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 8:01 am

<a heref="http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/board/de ... efault.asp[/url] </a> This is a link dadx2mj gave me. Someone there might know a hack to cure the annoyance.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 10:52 am

Sethpa: I would but this person is a 70 year old computer newbie and likes Meda Player so I'm loath to confuse her with another program.

d_b: Thanks. Didn't find anything, but I left a post there.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 2:18 pm

understand FP, actually, there are a few things I like about the latest version of it. But it can be such a pain in the nether regions

sethpa

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Jan 13, 2002 7:12 pm

FYI I THINK I've found an answer to this problem - haven't tried it yet.

Someone at TweakXP came up with it when I posted the problem last week:

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/board/to ... IC_ID=2547

Seems Media Player in XP Home (haven't seen this in XP Pro yet) shares your
media library on the internet by default (gee thanks Microsoft!)

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Sun Jan 13, 2002 11:44 pm

those bastards