How to remove wrong thumbnail picture associated with MP3/WMA file?

Question

Win7 associates those little thumbnail sized pictures to some mp3/wma files I have (inside Music library), but some some pictures are wrong.
How to "dissociate" those wrong pictures?
Furthermore, Win7 seems to fill in informations to music files but once again, some are wrong.  How could I stop it to act "too smart"?

Answer 1

Hi,
If you are using Windows Media Player to run these files by default, the problem occurs because the Windows Media Player library database has become
corrupted.
First, you may check if it is run by Windows Media Player by default. If not, please change it:
Change which programs Windows uses by default
To resolve this problem, clear the Windows Media Player database. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Exit Windows Media Player.
2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player, and then click OK.
3. Select all the files in the folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.
Note: You do not have to delete the folders that are in this folder.
 4. Restart Windows Media Player.
Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.
If this does not resolve the problem, clear the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Exit Windows Media Player.
   2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, and then click OK.
   3. Select the Media Player folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.
   4. Restart Windows Media Player.
Windows Media
Player supports other options that control the updating and overwriting of related media information. If you want to receive media information from the Internet but control how your files are updated:
1.   
Click
Organize, and then click Options.
2.   
Click the Library tab, and then select the
Retrieve additional information from the Internet check box.
3.   
Select either
Only add missing information or Overwrite all media information, and then click
OK.
More information:
Add or change album
art in Windows Media Player
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