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******.co.uk>
wrote:
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>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?[/color]

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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Michael Cecil
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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******.com> wrote in message
news:StOdnX83QZ7PElHYnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@comcast.com...[color=blue]
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:31:05 -0000, "Extracampine" <lostfrogg******.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>>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?[/color]
>
> 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
> [url]http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/[/url]
> [url]http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/[/url]
> [url]http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/hackingvista/[/url][/color]