Windows Media Player - Download Media Info From Internet is Greyed Out

Hi All,

On our machines running WinXP Pro - SP2 (WMP 10) all our users who are
not administrators have the option to obtain media information from
the
internet greyed out:

WMP10 - Tools - Options - Library
Automatic media information updates for files
Retrieve additional information from the internet

This is turned off, and greyed out.

Does anyone know if there is a group policy setting that stops users
from turning that on, and if it is turned on, is that an issue?

I am thinking that the only downside is that it generates traffic
getting the album name, artist, and track names, but that would be a
very small amount of traffic I think.

Thanks!

Alan.

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Are you using Active Directory or NT4 style policies?

The latter certainly offers many settings for WMP. I don't have much
experience of AD so I couldn't say.

 

Hi Rob,

AD.

I actually found the setting under Group Policies - windows comonents
/ windows media player. It had been set to disallow the media info to
be pulled from the net.

Thanks!

Alan.

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Specifically, for posterity and those that may find this by way of a
search, it is under:

Group Policy anagement - Your Forest - Domain.Local - Domain - Users -
User Group - User Group
User Configuration - Admin Templates - Windows Components - Windows
Media Player - Prevent Music File Media Information Retrieval

Obvoiusly your AD tree may differ.

HTH,

Alan.

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