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Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

No naming that tune and no album covers Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.… ...
Ars Technica

CD ripping (and playing) problem with Windows Media Player

I haven't posted any technical help questions on Ars for ages, but here goes. This is probably 'old tech' for most of you. I have an enormous CD collection and I've been ripping some (more) to MP3 ...
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Windows Media Player just lost one of its oldest features

Microsoft just quietly killed a feature you used to love.
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Finally, CD ripping function is added to Windows 11 media player

Microsoft has distributed a media player for Windows 11 on Dev Channel, a developer channel for the Windows Insider Program, a preview version of Windows 11. It is reported that this new media player ...
Ars Technica

New Windows Media Player app travels back in time, gains the ability to rip CDs

If there's one thing Windows 11 has been good for, it has been the renewed attention and useful updates to the built-in apps that ship with Windows. Sometimes this means new features for ...