Disable Windows Media Player Music File Media Information Retrieval

This feature allows you to disable or enable music file media information retrieval in Windows Media Player.

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a standard media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

If a check mark is set, music file media information retrieval in WMP is disabled. If a check mark is removed, music file media information retrieval in WMP is enabled.

By default, music file media information retrieval in WMP is enabled.

WMP can automatically obtain media information from the Internet for music files such as Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3. Some users prefer to stop WMP from doing this. For example, some people have limited internet and others consider it unsafe and unnecessarily resource-hogging. If you want to prevent media information for music files from being retrieved from the Internet, you can do it using the "Disable Windows Media Player Music File Media Information Retrieval" setting of the Red Button program.

Benefits:

• Improves overall performance
• Increases security and privacy

Risk Level: GREEN

System reboot: not required

OS: 11, 10, 8, 7