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Windows Media Player 11 Album Art Hell
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ProclaimDragon
I'm using WMP 11 on Windows Vista and I'm having this problem with Album Art that is driving me insane... I've already searched a lot and couldn't find anything that could help me out.
I have all my album art embedded in the mp3 files, in the ID3 tags. This tag art is read just fine by WMP, Media Center and the Explorer, all of them get the album art from the file. However, every time I open up WMP, it starts creating those annoying Folder.jpg and AlbumArtSmall.jpg files inside each album folders and I really don't want that. First, cause it's resized to 200x200 and that sucks displaying in the Media Center for instance, mines are at 500x500. Second, cause I have a "Various" folder which has lots of different songs from different albums and artists, a folder with mixed content and if I have a those stupid WMP tiny art files there, then, in the WMP Library, all files that are inside that folder will have that stupid cover and not the embedded one.
How can I prevent this album art from ever being created by Windows Media Player.
I though of a solution, but I don't believe it's possible. For instance, to have Media Player, to always be executed and run with the permissions from a different user. Then, I would disallow write access to the whole Music folder. I can't use my account for that cause I need write access. WMP needed to run from a different user account, and this needed to happen from wherever I launch WMP, either shortcuts or directly through the exe. Is this even possible somehow?
I forgot to tell you one important thing... Yes, I have all those checks about "retrieve additional information from the internet" and things like that unticked... I believe there's only 2 in the Media Player options and they are both unticket. I don't understand why WMP keeps creating those art files...
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