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Media Player shows wrong album art

Submitted by nitrous9200 on November 7, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug

When opening a media file in WMP, the mini mode seems to show the album art of the last media file played rather than the current one. It changes after a while but it shows this at first.

Fix it.

Medium

Medium

Fixed

I haven't seen this happen in a while.

Discussion (7 comments)

Arayta wrote on November 8, 2008, 9:06am

I get this all the time, even in WMP11! It really needs to be fixed, not sure what causes it.

Jote wrote on November 8, 2008, 7:30pm

It's not an UX thing, it's just a WMP bug. Wrong place to post this I guess

MrDan wrote on November 10, 2008, 5:38pm

If you have the WMP window minimize whilst changing music, the DWM thumbnail won't update itself till ou have restored the window state.

MrDan wrote on November 10, 2008, 5:39pm

Ah, ignore my last comment. I just realised you were talking about THE mini mode window, not the taskbar mini mode. Stupid me.

nitrous9200 wrote on November 11, 2008, 12:12am

I don't see how it's not welcome here; WMP is an integral part of Windows (unless you have the N version of course) and it's user experience.

nitrous9200 wrote on January 21, 2009, 3:27am

I still get this bug in Build 7000.

xpclient wrote on August 31, 2010, 10:27am

+1. And a dozen other WMP12 annoyances and removals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Player#Removed_features

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