Disable the retrieval of music file

Prevents media information for music files from being retrieved from the Internet  This tweak prevents the Player 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.

Operating System Windows 2000 / XP / 2003

Steps for applying this Tweak

• Open your registry
• Go to HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer
• create or modify dword value called "PreventMusicFileMetadataRetrieval"
• set value as 0 to disable and 1 to enable this tweak.
• restart windows media player for setting to take effect.