Ever wondered how some of your mp3 files show up with the album art icon instead of the standard mp3 icon, when browsing through the mp3 collection on hard disk? Also, does the cover image appear at the background when playing an mp3 file using Windows Media Player or any other music player?
Thumbnail image of the mp3 files as seen in Windows Explorer.
The thumbnail image can come from JPG album art images (super-hidden) within that folder, or from pictures embedded into each mp3 file. If you need to remove the mp3 album art/images for some reason, first configure Windows Explorer to show hidden and protected Operating System files. Use these steps:
Press WinKey + R to launch the Run dialog. Type control folders and hit {ENTER}
Click the View tab
Enable Show hidden files, folders, and drives
Uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
Click OK.
Open the folder that contains the mp3 album, and delete the AlbumArt_{GUID}_Large.jpg, AlbumArt_{GUID}_Small.jpg and Folder.jpg images.
Album art still appears?
If the album art still appears for an mp3 file or album, that could be coming from the pictures embedded into the mp3 file, and you need an ID3 tag editor to remove them. There are several freeware products available; I used Mp3tag.
Browse and locate the mp3 file. Right-click on the image and click Remove cover. Do this for every image.
That should remove all the album art images from the mp3 file.
Note that using Mp3Tag, you can also add additional album art images or change the "picture type" (cf. Picture Types at ID3.org) for the image that’s already embedded onto the mp3 file. Here are the options available.
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ID3 Tag Editor ws just what the Doctor ordered. Saved me a lot of headaches and frustration!
Awesome resolution Champion.
Thank you heaps, there are some seriously weird album arts out there..
Yeah thanx alot man that’s really helpful post i like it !!
Cheers !!
thnxx
it worked but u should do save
works but i haven’t got time to do this 757 times. If you select all then remove cover it doesn’t work.
Thank you – thank you & thank you again. Now when looking at my music files on my Dvico all the album art work does not come up. Thank you again
super thanks!!!!…I hated the album art of my mp3s for the longest time because it was a pic of an ugly guy…brrrrr… ugly.. but now its gone! yay! :D
i just select all then file remove tag now all album art gone
Tried a few times, didn’t make it work, lazy album arts still shown on wd tv live.
But after a few more tries with the folder options and pressing F5 to refresh the explorer view, album arts shown and deleted them all.
Thank you..
Btw, for batch removing of id tags from mp3′s to be able to view the names as you edited on win-amp, MP3tag works great..