I am running Windows 7 64 Bit media center.  Had been working flawlessly and suddently I get an error saying that Windows Media Center has lost its remote connection to Windows Media Player and must restart.  When I click ok, it shuts Media Center down and when I restart it works.  This message doesn't seem to come with any regularity, sometimes it takes a few days, other times it happens every 30 minutes.  I have not made any recent hardware changes, nor have I added any software.  Where would I start looking at how to fix this problem?

I've seen this once.  I normally run Media Player in the background so I can stream music to my HTPC.  It had been at least a couple of weeks since I'd rebooted the HTPC, and I'm certain I'd played videos and physical DVDs in that time.  The message occurred after I'd been demonstrating Play-To from another machine, and it's quite possible that I streamed a video.  I suspect it's some combination of conditions, such as using play-to to start a video just after WMC has played a DVD.

Anyone else seen this?

 -- Pete

P.S.  My machine has no 3rd-party codecs installed -- plain vanilla Windows 7 Home Premium.  I do, however, have My Movies installed, and do use NetFlix streaming.

I am getting this issue randomly, that's why I came here.

Windows 7 32 bit on a machine dedicated to running Media Center 24/7.

I also have the issue randomly of when accessing Music, it is empty and starts populating, an event that renders the PC unresponsive and sometimes ends up requiring a restart of MC, and sometimes the restarting Windows 7.

Issues that frankly piss me off considering the money I poured into this Media Center box. A box that has nothing installed except for My Movies and G-Force.

The complete music collection (125 Gigs worth) resides on the C drive in the default Music folder in the default Music library.

The box and the setup are as simple as simple can get. Even simple doesn't get you a trouble free experience :(

did you have any luck with sorting this??? i seem to have been hit by the same issue??

Got same problem here running WMC on Windows 7 Pro x64 on Dell XPS M1330. No add-on's for WMC, no extra codec-packs, pure system with few engineering apps.

What I have found out so far is that it crashes short time after I hit the 'Play all' button in library and shuffle the tracks. I can be certain that 10 songs is the most I can listen this way. Looks like WMC can't manage long playlists, since my library contains about 1800 tracks. The most ridiculous thing is that every track is local and native WMA lossless format. I gave up playing FLAC's via WMC long time ago...

On the other side, everything's fine when adding only few albums to the queue.

 I am having the same problem.  I really hope this gets addressed.  This bascially renders my Windows 7 MCE useless.  Very annoying!!!  Doesn't Microsoft own this forum??????????????????????????

What I've done:

Control Panel > Programs... > Turn Windows features... > Media options > deselect this to unstall media center/media player > continue with the modification to remove these features.

Reboot.

Repeat above but this time select them to install them.

Reboot.

open media center and verify librarys loaded content.

play content.

It is too soon to reach a conclusion on rather or not this is a resolution, but the early results are positive.

 

 I am getting the same error: "Audio Error" Windows Media Center has lost its remote connection to WIndows Media Player. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate.

 I have a dual tuner setup and it happens whenever the second tuner starts record. Clicking OK and restarting MCE gets it all working again, but it's a ridiculously annoying error to be receiving regularly.

Anyone know anything more? I have tried uninstalling MCE and Media Player and then reinstalling them and that doesn't work.

I'm having the same problem on the same setup.  Although, I can't say it has been running flawlessly.  In the same timeframe I have the headlined problem as well as the music library rebuild (as mentioned by another poster) and a problem with the resolution changing to 1024x768.   The resolution problem seemed to start a few weeks ago but the "lost remote connection" and music data rebuild seemed to start within the last week.  I cannot think of a single piece of software that I have installed besides dvrmstoolbox.  Seems odd to me that the frequency of users with this problem has increased this month.

I am in the fase of trying what barvin mentioned, reinstalling Media Player and Media Center. I'm experiencing the same error.

 I have:
VIA hd Audio chipset, latest 7400 drivers
updated my bios to latest (Asus)
uninstalled media browser
uninstalled Shark007 (codecs)

but the error stays. Rebooting now, and then some testing.

That didn't work. Did anyone solve this?

EDIT: did any of you installed software from DVBlogic? To make good use of a DVB card (Sabre HB-220 dual tuner)? Cause that's the only change I've recently have gone through.

I seem to have solved my problem by uninstalling Adobe Premiere on my media center computer... checking through the error logs there seems to have been a conflict with an adobe .dll (can't recall which one) but that has "solved" the problem for me!

I don't have that Adobe program. Whitch error log did you look at?

I just noticed something that makes me very very unhappy. A couple of months ago I noticed that the screensaver when playing music was not displaying the covers anymore. It drove me nuts and eventually I reinstalled Win7. As from today, the same thing happens. Only the Tuna cover, standard with Win7 shows up with the coloured replacement covers. Sigh.

 Logs - go to Control Panel -> Administration Tools -> Event Viewer - can't remember exactly where, but immediately after the error happens, go there and look for an error.

I've found it. No errors anymore. Seems the system had troubles with Nvidia physx. nvcuda.dll was giving errors in the logs. After de-installing everything was back to normal. Thanks everyone.

I'm usually a fan of Nvidia, but they are experiencing some troubles lately. Last week an update (the same as was giving me errors) was called back because the drivers would stop the fan.