# Windows Media Player Album Art

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-album-art/452922>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-album-art/452922 "2008-06-14T16:34:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-album-art/452922/1 "2008-06-14T16:34:09Z")

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Where are the album cover pictures for Windows Media Player stored? I’m running Vista.

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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-album-art/452922/2 "2008-06-14T19:37:41Z")

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I’m really not liking WMP today.

I change album art for, say Big Star/Radio City, and that’s fine, but in its infinite wisdom, WMP thinks the art for that album is so great, it will just install it willy-nilly on The Band’s The Last Waltz, Parts 1 AND 2. Then I go to restore The Last Waltz’s art, and you guessed, WMP puts it with J.J. Cale too.

Why? Why, I ask you???