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VLC: incorrect cover art displayed

Snake38 Posted messages 297 Status Member -  
 Un_Hom_au_Sud -
Hello,

I usually open all my VLC music files at once to create a big playlist. The problem is that, during a song, it's almost never the correct album cover that appears in VLC. For Elvis Presley, I might see the cover of Michel Sardou, or for MC Solaar, the cover of Gilbert Montagné, not great...

I read that the metadata might be incorrect. But how can I fix this issue for my 2000 songs? I don’t want to change the covers one by one.

Thanks!

Configuration: Windows / Chrome 49.0.2623.87

7 answers

  1. JackAttack
     
    This is a bug reported in 2010. It could not be fixed because we do not understand how it occurs.
    Bug closed due to being too vague to reproduce:
    https://trac.videolan.org//ticket/15423#comment:1
    Bug opened to properly recode the entire issue of covers in VLC:
    https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17367
    Official forum on this issue:
    https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=79717&start=20

    Raw solution:
    - Open Windows Explorer (Win + E key)
    - paste this address in the address bar: %appdata%\VLC\art
    (this is the folder containing all the covers, called Album Art in English)
    - select all in this folder (Ctrl+A)
    - delete (Delete key)
    - if necessary, close VLC and reopen it if it was open.
    - proceed as usual, open your file, the cover should appear from the mp3 tag, if not, it should download from Wikimedia Commons, if not, it should download from Amazon. If not found, Tools, Media Information, right-click on the cover location, add the cover from a file (look for such a file on the internet, no need for good quality, a small file is sufficient).
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    1. Un_Hom_au_Sud
       
      Thank you very much for your response. To a certain extent, I had the same problem as Snake38; however, there are still strange behaviors that I observe after having deleted everything in art and restarted VLC. This is probably a part of VLC where the code could be improved.
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