MSN Music - bye bye windowsmedia.com Album Information
I received the following information from OD2 today:
As far as I am aware, WMP10 will now display information populated by the currently active shop (regardless of whether any plug-ins are installed). This information was previously populated by information from windowsmedia.com. In the UK, MSN Music UK is the default shop that is active for all WMP10 users. In the US, I suspect it will be the MSN US equivalent content will appear as soon as the service is fully live and integrated to WMP10. Only regions that do not have at least one online store will now default to windowsmedia.com data. If Microsoft do receive significant negative feedback regarding this, it is conceivable that this might change in due course.
So we may have some North American refugees to English(New Zealand) and English(Ireland) or other locales, in order to preserve album information display...