
This means that you may not be able to view the metadata for songs or movies as a result in both Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.

The company says it has decided to discontinue the data after analysing usage data. Metadata services will be affected for Windows Media Player in Windows 7 only, though Windows Media Center’s metadata service will be affected in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7. MUSICBRAINZ PICARD ALL UNTAGGED WINDOWS 7 JRiver Inside: Looking at the speaker / AVR etc market, they all run some Media. MusicBrainZ Picard is a cross-platform, free as in freedom and free beer music tagger. “Going forward, you may be unable to view information (metadata) such as the title, genre, and artist for songs, and the director, actors, cover art, and TV guide for movies in Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player. MusicBrainz Picard (identifying untagged audio files)50 posts gives us Airplay, Chromecast, Sonos support. Integration of these as core, or add ins would. Here is a quick guide to efficient file tagging. After looking at customer feedback and usage data, Microsoft decided to discontinue this service. This means that new metadata won’t be updated on media players that are installed on your Windows device. However, any information that’s already been downloaded will still be available.” Microsoft said, explaining the change (via Windows Latest). The change here shouldn’t be surprising to see.

I doubt a lot of people actually use Windows Media Player anymore, and the metadata features are probably used by an even smaller portion of users.
