Windows Media Player 11 automatic folder.jpg download issue

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> First thing to do is take a copy of all your folder.jpgs before you lose
> them...
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> if you put the following line in a batch file and run it from the top
> folder of your
> music collection it will find all the folder.jpgs and make a copy of each
> called
> cover.jpg
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> for /r %%i in (Folde?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiCover.jpg"
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> You could then use this batch file to delete any folder.jpgs and albumart
> files after a wmp11 rescan.
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> attrib -S -H AlbumArtSmall.jpg /S
> del /S AlbumArtSmall.jpg
> pause
> attrib -S -H Folder.jpg /S
> del /S Folder.jpg
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> and then use the reverse of the first line of code to copy your Cover.jpgs
> back to folder.jpgs
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> for /r %%i in (Cove?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiFolder.jpg"
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>
> BE careful with these batch files as if you run the wrong one at the
> wrong time you might end up crying into your beer...
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> "Extracampine" <lostfrogg@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23fcoHcFTHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> 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.
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>> 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?

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