# Album art ? already present

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-already-present/68445
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-already-present/68445 "2025-05-09T01:34:43Z")
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### Author: ![MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/motleyg/32/440_2.png) [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-already-present/68445/3 "2025-05-09T10:19:27Z")

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If you have ever allowed WMP to see your music files, it makes a great big (hidden) mess with album art.

See here for info on how to find and clean it up.

> [@Tool to delete folder.jpg, AlbumArtSmall.jpg, desktop.ini, ...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-folder-jpg-albumartsmall-jpg-desktop-ini/13061):
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> Some of my album folders have a set of files which I believe is created by Windows Media Player. These files are: desktop.ini AlbumArtSmall.jpg AlbumArt\_{7E518F75-1BC4-4CD1-92B4-B349D9E9248B}Large.jpg AlbumArt{7E518F75-1BC4-4CD1-92B4-B349D9E9248B}\_Small.jpg Folder.jpg These files are hidden files and hidden files. I can't see them in the Windows Explorer. But they show up in Mp3tag Albumart Preview Window, and they can't be overwritten by Mp3tag. That's anoying, because I have set Mp3tag…

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