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Heya
I cant stop VLC from downloading Album Art.

I have changed the setting in the preferences to manual download only and I have cleared the art folder in AppData>vlc> art, yet every time I play a song it recreates the folder and re-downloads the art!

I have this problem too

have for ages

No one has solved it

Furthermore, the tag is correct but VLC just wont display the correct art!

And vlc, the best media player in history, ironically is the most annoying in this regard

When people stop complaining and start fixing, then and only then the problem might go away. It is really as simple as that.

I've done a bit more testing and research and it seems you cannot prevent vlc from downloading external album art (except by switching your router / modem off). This is probably by design because it seems from amazon.com there are royalties involved. I have also experienced the wrong cover art being downloaded (apart from the weird experience with remote tagging I described earlier). But it seems this is because there is not enough information in the other tag fields to uniquely identify the required cover art. For example, if you use mp3tag - www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html -an excellent utility - specifically the options to download cover art or tags - you will get a number of options depending on how many other tags you have specified. Hope this helps a bit...

VLC 2.0.1 does not download if you ask it not to.

How do you set it never to fetch artwork in the settings interface? (win7 here)

set it in the preferences.