Problems with jpg covers in progressive format

That is not what I said.
Your idea to transform a file

(or that is what I understood) by simply changing an extension does not work.
The discussed problem was a difference in jpg-file-formats, one baseline and one progressive where progressive may cause problems.
For me it sounded as though removing the "e" from jpeg to get "jpg" would change the file format - which it does not.

See eg.g here: