Submission details
Media Player should restrict album art updates in the same way as text metadata
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 (4 comments)
severity and impact high?
Overwriting user data is definitely high severity - it's effectively deleting it.
I am almost giving up using WMP, because all the trouble I had fixing album arts was thrashed today when I opened new .mp3 files. Now half of my Albuns have the face of Engelbert Humperdink on the cover !!! This is the highest severity I can think of !
.Chris wrote on January 30, 2010, 2:43pm
Well like you said thus is not a UI Quirk
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