Prevent Music File Media Information Retrieval
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > Windows Media Player
Supported on
Windows Media Player 9 Series and later.

This policy setting allows you to prevent media information for music files from being retrieved from the Internet. If you enable this policy setting, the Player is prevented from automatically obtaining media information for music files such as Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 files from the Internet. In addition, the Update my music files (WMA and MP3 files) by retrieving missing media information from the Internet check box in the first use dialog box and on the Privacy and Media Library tabs in the Player are not selected and are not available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can change the setting of the Update my music files (WMA and MP3 files) by retrieving missing media information from the Internet check box.

Internal name
PreventMusicFileMetadataRetrieval
Policy ID
78f17e3d6db2
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer
Value name
PreventMusicFileMetadataRetrieval
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer
Value name
PreventMusicFileMetadataRetrieval
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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