Possibly a solution to Windows Media Player (version 12) eating ram, and eventually crashing.

Hazel123 said:

There are better alternatives for Windows 11 I'm sure. Definitely

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Fixed it for ya

Ah ok. I usually install VLC for both - found that Windows installed "Films and TV" doesn't play all videos well. I believe VLC does cross fading.

Or this? AIMP Seems popular. But as you say maybe Windows 11 new media player will be the solution.

So. I might have solved it. I disabled the "additional data from the internet" setting, then selecting "apply media information changes" or whatever that setting is called, under the button in the upper-left. Then I set to download metadata from the web again, and so far it seems to work fine.

I seen a pattern here. It basically "loops" the downloading of certain metadata every time I run Windows Media Player. The same albums/songs gets their metadata downloaded all over again. It consumes up to over a gig of memory. But now it seems to be solved.