The only downside of the Permissions method is that you’ll need to do this for each folder that contain a music album.This tutorial is about How to Create Live Albums in Google Photos on an Android, iOS, and Web.
Windows Media Player should no longer be able to update your images. Inherited permissions for this file removed, and Users group have Read access for this file. You should now have only one permission entry for the file, that one which you added. Otherwise, WMP might still write to folder.jpg.Ĩ. If you have any additional/explicit Permissions set for this file, you may need to remove them all first. Enable the Read checkbox and uncheck all other permission check boxes. Click Disable inheritance, and click Remove all inherited permissions from this object.Ħ. Click the Security tab, and click Advanced.ģ. Right-click folder.jpg, click Properties. First, configure Explorer to Show all files, and unhide Protected Operating System files (in Folder Options, View tab), as folder.jpg may be super-hidden.Ģ.
Processed file: folder.jpg Successfully processed 1 files Failed processing 0 filesġ. You’ll see the following message for each command entered: Then type: icacls folder.jpg /grant BUILTIN\Users:(R) In the Command Prompt window, type the following and press ENTER: From the File menu, click Open command prompt. Open your folder which contains the mp3 files. Option 1: Using Command Prompt ( Icacls.exe command) This can be done by removing all inherited permissions for the file, and then granting "Users" group Read permissions for the file, so that Explorer can still read the file during thumbnail generation. Locking down Folder.jpg Using NTFS PermissionsĪnother approach would be to lock down folder.jpg so that no application can write to it.
Double-click the file to apply the above settings automatically. Copy these lines to Notepad and save the file with. Here is the REG file for the above setting. ( Credits to koawmfot, a user at hydrogenaud.io forums who was probably the first to find this fix back in 2009. With these registry values set, Windows Media Player doesn’t update your folder thumbnail image (folder.jpg) and AlbumArt*.jpg images. Repeat the same for LargeAlbumArtSize registry value, and exit the Registry Editor. Set the value data for the above values to ffffffff (hexadecimal) Start Regedit.exe and go to the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PreferencesĬreate these two REG_DWORD (32 bit) values: Now, the idea is to purposely set out of range value data for SmallAlbumArtSize and LargeAlbumArtSize registry values using the Registry Editor, so that Windows Media Player simply skips overwriting the images. If for some reason, you find Windows Media Player still updating the folder images and Album art images, then follow one of the methods below. Update music files by retrieving media info from the InternetĬlick OK.Display media information from the Internet.Uncheck Retrieve additional information from the Internet Open WMP, click Tools (ALT + T), Options. Lock down folder.jpg using NTFS PermissionsĮach of the above methods are discussed below.Using the Registry Editor to set invalid Album Art size.Using Windows Media Player – Preferences.There are different ways with which you can prevent WMP from overwriting custom folder thumbnails and album art images. Stop WMP from Updating Folder Thumbnails and Album Art The problem now is, Windows Media Player would reset your custom hi-res folder.jpg with the low-res (200×200) ones from Microsoft’s meta data servers, every now and then. The workaround, of course, is to crop the image accordingly as in article Folder Thumbnails Appear With White Border in Windows 10. But as we’ve seen before, exact square images can be a slight inconvenience in Windows 10, as the folder thumbnails are shown up with a white border.Ģ00×200 is shown with white border, but any non-square images are shown stretched in thumbnail/large icons view. The dimensions of the updated folder.jpg would be 200×200 as available from WMP’s meta information source.