Unrelated image displaying when playing audio files

[lunardolls]

When I play audio-only files (e.g. MP3, WAV), VLC will display an image completely unrelated to the audio file. I do recognize the image and it is stored somewhere else on my computer but I have never done anything to associate the image with any of my audio files.

It is happening regardless of which audio file I pick.

How can I remove the image? I just want the default black screen with the big VLC logo to be what displays when I play audio files.

Things I have already tried to no avail:
- Unchecking the metadata option
- Clearing the art folder in %appdata%
- Uninstalling and reinstalling (selected the "delete cache" option on both the uninstall and the reinstall)
- Used MP3tag on the audio files to try to remove album art (but there was no album art attached on any of them of course)

[Lotesdelere]

Untick Allow Metadata Network Access in the Preferences, exit VLC and then clear again the art folder in %appdata% and the image should not be back.

[lunardolls]

Untick Allow Metadata Network Access in the Preferences, exit VLC and then clear again the art folder in %appdata% and the image should not be back.

I did this and unfortunately the image is still there

[Lotesdelere]

Then there is a pic named front.*, cover.*, folder.* or disc.* which is located in the same folder as the audio files.

[WayneSallee-com]

Then there is a pic named front.*, cover.*, folder.* or disc.* which is located in the same folder as the audio files.

That's the problem I just ran into. I had a "front.jpg" in the same folder. Renaming it to "Front.jpg" fixed the problem.

Is there a way to disable this default behavior?

[Lotesdelere]

Is there a way to disable this default behavior?

Not that I know.

[WayneSallee-com]

Is there a way to disable this default behavior?

Not that I know.

I could just modify the code, and recompile it. But that's more time consuming.