This should really be posted in the Feature Request forum, however:
Can CloudStalker make a suggestion? Of course he can.

In the case where album art is not embedded into the tag, would it be possible to make VLC search for the album art in the folder? Much like foobar2k, it would search for "cover.jpg", "folder.jpg", "front.jpg" (applies to PNG and other image formats).
Oow yes I think I already suggested this one and entered it in VLC bug trac.
It's should be more easier to tackle first before embedded art reading
It can already do this (well - works with VLC 1.0.0-rc3 on *nix anyway), just is limited to "Folder.jpg", "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" and ".folder.png". It is case sensitive, and hence "folder.jpg" will not work (the naming scheme I use).
Source code here:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... lder.c#l95
The for and switch statements could just be expanded to handle more more naming schemes (perhaps *.png too? Not sure if the Qt4 supports that ATM), or perhaps could be customisable in the Preferences - e.g. a comma/semi-colon separated list.
Arite.