# Can't remove album cover from certain albums
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-remove-album-cover-from-certain-albums/9475
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 4, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-remove-album-cover-from-certain-albums/9475 "2009-12-04T17:47:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Dscolaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dscolaro)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-remove-album-cover-from-certain-albums/9475/1 "2009-12-04T17:47:36Z")
Hello. I've been checking out this program and so far it's very useful. I've noticed one particular problem that shows up every now and then that I can't figure out. I recently applied an album cover to all files in a particular album. When playing the tune the cover shows up fine but I noticed that it was too big. I reduced the size of the cover, removed the old art and replaced it with the new art. It's a jpg file. I still have the same large art showing up. I then removed the art all together, saved it, and the old art still shows up. I even tried to change it to some other album art and the old art shows up. I'm definitely saving every time I change. I'm using MP3TAG V2.45a. The mp3 file tag says ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3 APEv2). For the majority of albums I can change art and it works fine. Any ideas on why this is happening? Is it somehow the APE part of this that's the problem? I can't seen anything else that stands out as a problem. By the way, I'm using VLC to play the files.
Regards,
Dom
_Edit_ OK after further experimentation this is looking like VLC is the culprit. I used Winamp and it behaves as expected. VLC must have some sort of hidden cache somewhere because I don't see anything related to cache or downloading artwork. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-remove-album-cover-from-certain-albums/9475/2 "2026-02-09T12:22:00Z")