Vista - Windows Media Player 11 automatic image retrieval issue

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?

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.
--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/hackingvista/

2 pieces of excellent advice, thanks. This should however not be necessary
with a piece of software as accomplished as Windows Media Player 11 though !



"Michael Cecil" <macecil@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
> http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/hackingvista/