Cover art display

All of my MP3 songs that have no cover art are now displaying an album cover - the same cover for all songs.
When I right click on the cover art, all options are greyed out, so I can't remove the image.
All of these songs are selected by using the filter: %_covers% IS ""
The cover art it chose to display is one I hadn't accessed during this session, so it was completely random!
How can I get rid of this false display?

Note: I'm pretty new to using this software and editing mp3 tags, so I'll need a simple solution!

Thanks for any help!

Amazing ... please provide a screenshot of the dialog "Extended Tags...", which displays such a cover picture from one of those files.

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Could it be that the displayed file is in the folder of the files? And that you have not checked the option in File>Options>Tag "Don't show picture from folder"?
If you see a filename next to the picture in the tag panel, it is a file from the folder.

Yes, that was the case!. Thank you!

That is not quite right, there are two menu options available, when you have choosen to display a picture file from within the current folder.
OK, you got it, and we have learned probably a new aspect of confusion by the Mp3tag User interface.
Thank you!

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