# How The Eff Do I Stop WMP11 From Autodownloading Album Art?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-eff-do-i-stop-wmp11-from-autodownloading-album-art/534985 "2010-04-05T03:24:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-eff-do-i-stop-wmp11-from-autodownloading-album-art/534985/1 "2010-04-05T03:24:51Z")

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Damn thing won’t stop autodownloading album art for some songs (but not all or even most songs) and I don’t want it to.

Under Options --\> Library “Retrive additional information from the internet” is _not_ checked. So what does WMP think it’s doing?

EDIT: That should be WMP **12**.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-eff-do-i-stop-wmp11-from-autodownloading-album-art/534985/2 "2010-04-05T10:40:29Z")

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There is a whole bunch of other stuff you could try unchecking under the Privacy tab (on WMP 11, anyway).

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**Author:** ![Earl\_E.Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c67d28/32.png) [@Earl\_E.Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_E.Bird)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-eff-do-i-stop-wmp11-from-autodownloading-album-art/534985/3 "2010-04-05T10:49:46Z")

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Are you playing CD’s or compressed audio files? MP3’s can have album art in the ID tags.

More info here: [http://65.55.13.242/forums/p/35076/148901.aspx](http://65.55.13.242/forums/p/35076/148901.aspx)

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-eff-do-i-stop-wmp11-from-autodownloading-album-art/534985/4 "2010-04-05T16:50:08Z")

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> [@Earl\_E.Bird](#):
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> … MP3’s can have album art in the ID tags. …

[Mp3 Tag Tools](http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/) will batch remove them,

> [@](#):
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> MP3 Tag Tools will remove all your album art from the tags in about 5 clicks and 10 seconds.
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> File -\> Open Directory -\> browse to your music folder and make sure the “recurse subdirectories” button is checked. Press Open.
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> Let the tracks load in.
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> On the bottom left of the screen, choose Picture.
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> Press CTRL-A to select all files.
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> Click Remove Picture.

[Winamp](http://www.winamp.com/) by song (great when TT misses one, missed album art always shows up for me as the folder icon).

CMC fnord!