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Media Player should restrict album art updates in the same way as text metadata

Submitted by MikeW on June 22, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Windows Media Player has a number of options to turn off media file metadata updates for new or existing files. None of these stops WMP from tinkering with album art files that are already known to be correct.

The previous album art may have been added directly by the user or by an earlier version of WMP. Then something changes in the WMP database so now it sees the user's album art is wrong and it overwrites it, sometimes just with placeholder art.

WMP needs to respect user data. If users take the trouble to find the correct album art for their media files, at higher resolution if they desire, then WMP should not stomp all over it.

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Not fixed

Discussion (3 comments)

.Chris wrote on January 30, 2010, 2:43pm

Well like you said thus is not a UI Quirk

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http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/3715#comment-26942

.Chris wrote on March 13, 2010, 10:04am

severity and impact high?

MikeW wrote on March 13, 2010, 11:36am

Overwriting user data is definitely high severity - it's effectively deleting it.

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