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  • More on UrgeMS.exe

    UrgeMS.exe seems to be causing issues for a lot of people. I mentioned previously that you can disable the process via security policy, and someone pointed out a registry setting to disable it a little cleaner. I was hoping they'd fix this in the future, but it looks like all they did was make it worse...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-01-2007
  • Disabling UrgeMS.exe

    I noticed my machine running slower lately, and UrgeMS.exe (URGE Media Scanner) was thrashing the disk and running up to 50% CPU. Obviously, this is part of MTV's URGE music store, the default store for Windows Media Player 11. It appears that the process is related to the "Auto-Mix" feature, which I...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-05-2007
  • Podcast support in Windows Media Player 11

    There is one other issue I need to deal with before I can totally switch to Windows Media Player 11 - podcast support. Microsoft made the head-scratching decision not to include native podcast support - one area where iTunes really excelled. Someone wrote a plugin over the summer , but it doesn't work...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006
  • dopisp adds iPod support in WMP 11

    Like most people, I would prefer to use a single media player to manage my library. I like Windows Media Player 11 more than iTunes 7 , and this is especially true since I've subscribed to the Urge subscription service . (I really wish Apple would provide a subscription-based service for the iPod). The...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006
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