How to stop Windows from generating random album art files

Here is the REG file for the above setting. Copy these lines to Notepad and save the file with .reg extension. Double-click the file to apply the above settings automatically.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
"LargeAlbumArtSize"=dword:ffffffff
"SmallAlbumArtSize"=dword:ffffffff

Hi,

 

You may try to uninstall and re-install Zune software and check if this helps.

 

Refer to this article to know more.

 

Download or reinstall the Zune Music + Video software and Zune player software: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-other-devices/windows-phone-7/remove-and-reinstall-zune

 

Thank you.

Hi,

I appreciate your help on this rough topic, but I reinstalled Zune and still the problem persists. It creates the same 46 "Folder.jpg" files over and over again (probably because there's one in each folder and I have 46 folders). Any suggestions or should I switch to iTunes?

Hi,

You may try to uninstall and re-install Zune software and check if this helps.

Refer to this article to know more.

Download or reinstall the Zune Music + Video software and Zune player software: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-other-devices/windows-phone-7/remove-and-reinstall-zune

Thank you.

Hi,

 

We appreciate that you have tried performing few troubleshooting steps.

 

I have come across the similar post where in changing the firewall settings helped 5 users. I would have you refer to the steps suggested by yusufat from the following link.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-pictures/prevent-windows-media-player-album-art-download/f8569375-ed32-4719-a9db-db6913c45b45

 

Note: Even though the steps are for Windows 7 operating system, they are applicable to your scenario.

 

Hope the information provided is helpful. Do reply, if you need further help.

I read yusufat's steps and I wasn't sure about the firewall connection thing. I used Firewall's advanced settings to disable all incoming Windows Media Player related connections. Was that the right thing to do? Also, I added the two address he mentioned to the "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" file. Nonetheless, what I did still didn't help because I deleted all of the images from my music folders, and after I completed what yusufat said to do, I found new "Folder.jpg" images in there again.

Despite the fact that these did not work, I made an interesting discovery. I deleted all JPG images from my music folders and I closed Zune (the program I use for listening to my music library). I then reopened Zune and about 50 new images "magically" reappeared in the music folders. I thought, okay, it's probably Zune's fault, but I'm still confused because I disabled Zune's setting for automatically retrieving song information from the Internet, so why is it still creating these song art images every time I open it?

Hi,

We appreciate that you have tried performing few troubleshooting steps.

I have come across the similar post where, blocking windows media player using Windows firewall helped users to fix this issue. You may try this and update us with the status.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/windows-firewall-from-start-to-finish

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/windows-firewall-from-start-to-finish

Hope the information provided is helpful. Do reply, if you need further help.