On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:31:05 -0000, "Extracampine" <lostfrogg@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>Windows Media Player 11 by default will try and retrieve album art
>(folder.jpg) from the internet. If it finds it, it will overwrite any
>pre-existing folder.jpg (even if the pre-existing one is a larger file) as
>well as create an AlbumArtSmall.jpg file.
>
>Having this as a default option is foolish, as the program began to
>overwrite my scanned-in high-resolution images with crappy low-resolution
>ones. Realising this, I searched the options for a remedy to this.
>
>The tools/options/library tab enables the user to switch off various
>"Automatic media information updates for files". Great, I thought. However,
>despite this option being switched off, Media Player continues to carry out
>this assault of my file organisation rather sporadically.
>
>Any ideas?
I just set the firewall to disallow WMP Internet access (you have to set
up the advanced firewall rules from the control panel) and marked the
folder.jpgs as read-only for good measure.
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