Giga
September 12th 04, 06:05 AM
The reason that the renaming of it works is that the registry lockdown does
not recognise the name so it does not lock it down.
In case you upgrade to WMP 10, the Info Center View is now in a different
location and it is tied to the music stores so should work without editing as
long as you live in USA. Otherwise, you cannot use it or the music stores -
too bad I live in New Zealand (damn you Bill).
"Marcus" wrote:
> This fix was e mailed to me, it seems to work for me:-
>
> I noticed your question in the newsgroups, and I stumbled across a fix for
> my system at least...
>
> Go to your windows media player directory, find wmplayer.exe and copy it.
> Paste it into the
> same directory and rename it whatever... WMp.exe.....launch.exe...
>
> Now when you launch it, it will show the info pane stuff again.
>
> Not sure why it's doing this!
>
> Nick R......
>
>
> "Marcus" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Well before I upgraded to SP 2 when I played an album from my media
> > library I used to get media information in the now playing tab if I was on
> > the internet.
> >
> > For example lets say I play a Stereophonics CD (Or MP3) an clicked on the
> > "Now Playing Tab" It would show me Artist Info or Album info depending on
> > which tab was selected, now it just has a blank screen.
> >
> > I have tried switching both my firewalls off but it still doesn't work ??
> >
> > Hope this is clearer, perhaps SP2 upgraded WMP 9 as well, hope I can sort
> > it as it was nice to read about artists as you listen to them.
> >
> > Marcus
> >
> >
> > "Giga" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >>I have SP2 and use WMP, and I have not seen such problems. Can you be a
> >> little more specific so I can try to reproduce the problem? What options
> >> did
> >> you change from default? Does it do it with songs known to have the
> >> information in the tags?
> >>
> >> "Marcus" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Just Installed SP2 with no problems except when I play music in WMP the
> >>> Album/Artist details are not showing in the "Now Playing" tab just a
> >>> blank.
> >>> Anyone noticed this, maybe the data provided AMG is down or doing an
> >>> update.
> >>>
> >>> I would appreciate if some one running XP pro SP2 could check theirs and
> >>> get
> >>> back to me
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Marcus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>
>
>
not recognise the name so it does not lock it down.
In case you upgrade to WMP 10, the Info Center View is now in a different
location and it is tied to the music stores so should work without editing as
long as you live in USA. Otherwise, you cannot use it or the music stores -
too bad I live in New Zealand (damn you Bill).
"Marcus" wrote:
> This fix was e mailed to me, it seems to work for me:-
>
> I noticed your question in the newsgroups, and I stumbled across a fix for
> my system at least...
>
> Go to your windows media player directory, find wmplayer.exe and copy it.
> Paste it into the
> same directory and rename it whatever... WMp.exe.....launch.exe...
>
> Now when you launch it, it will show the info pane stuff again.
>
> Not sure why it's doing this!
>
> Nick R......
>
>
> "Marcus" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Well before I upgraded to SP 2 when I played an album from my media
> > library I used to get media information in the now playing tab if I was on
> > the internet.
> >
> > For example lets say I play a Stereophonics CD (Or MP3) an clicked on the
> > "Now Playing Tab" It would show me Artist Info or Album info depending on
> > which tab was selected, now it just has a blank screen.
> >
> > I have tried switching both my firewalls off but it still doesn't work ??
> >
> > Hope this is clearer, perhaps SP2 upgraded WMP 9 as well, hope I can sort
> > it as it was nice to read about artists as you listen to them.
> >
> > Marcus
> >
> >
> > "Giga" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >>I have SP2 and use WMP, and I have not seen such problems. Can you be a
> >> little more specific so I can try to reproduce the problem? What options
> >> did
> >> you change from default? Does it do it with songs known to have the
> >> information in the tags?
> >>
> >> "Marcus" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Just Installed SP2 with no problems except when I play music in WMP the
> >>> Album/Artist details are not showing in the "Now Playing" tab just a
> >>> blank.
> >>> Anyone noticed this, maybe the data provided AMG is down or doing an
> >>> update.
> >>>
> >>> I would appreciate if some one running XP pro SP2 could check theirs and
> >>> get
> >>> back to me
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Marcus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>
>
>