Windows 7 - wmp 11 shows incorrect art (in library view but not now playing/a.

o.s: xp pro (media center  2002)

problem: album art is often (but not always) wrong.

for example, when in library view, with album art displayed, the art is
sometimes wrong.
switching to 'now playing', the album art is correct.

checking the a.t. editor (pictures tab) shows the correct art for all songs
in the album/cd.

the same 'wrong' art often shows up for many different albums.

i have all my music lumped together in the my music  /music folder (ie.
without putting each band & album into a separate folder ).

  Tim De Baets replied to swordfisch

WMP stores the album art that is shown in the library as JPG files in
the same folder as the music files. You may want to check these JPG
files, especially
AlbumArt_{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}_Large.jpg and
AlbumArt_{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}_Small.jpg could be
causing the problem you are having. These files will be hidden, so you
will need to make sure Explorer is set to show hidden files.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

  ribeir replied to Tim De Baets

"Tim De Baets" wrote:

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from downloading and showing JPGs? Windows 7 Version 10 never downloaded or showed all these album cover JPGs when it downloaded music. I am not interested in having these pics, plus Discussions LocalMLS (1) JPGs (1) DVDs (1) FilesRight (1) Attributes (1) Remaster (1) UnClick (1) Baets (1) I am not entirely sure, but unchecking "Retrieve additional information from the Internet", in WMP's Options - Library, could prevent WMP from downloading album art. To remove all existing album art, simply delete all JPG files in your music folder. Note that these files are you need to make sure Explorer is set to show hidden files. Regards - - Tim De Baets http: / / www.bm-productions.tk The only setting in TOOLS | OPTIONS | LIBRARY that could possibly it looks like this setting does not have any effect on the automatic downloading of album art, and I am pretty sure that there is not any other setting that does why do you want do disable this? WMP does not force you to view the album art, you can easily switch to Details view in the library to hide it. Regards - - Tim De Baets http: / / www.bm-productions.tk I merely turned off "show hidden files" in Explorer to

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