data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-nagging-windows-10-users-to-upgrade” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-nagging-windows-10-users-to-upgrade”>Windows 11. We checked both Windows Media Player Legacy, and the latest Media Player app, and neither could connect to retrieve album artwork, track names, and other useful data like genre/composer, when an audio CD was popped in to play. Several music CDs were tried.
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Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed — you’ll have to find other software for playing and ripping CDs with relevant track information
data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-nagging-windows-10-users-to-upgrade” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-nagging-windows-10-users-to-upgrade”>Windows 11. We checked both Windows Media Player Legacy, and the latest Media Player app, and neither could connect to retrieve album artwork, track names, and other useful data like genre/composer, when an audio CD was popped in to play. Several music CDs were tried.
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