Local File Album Art Bug (Figured Out)

I recently posted about this bug, but I now believe I have figured out what is the cause of it happening. For summarize, there is a bug that appeared in the newest version of Spotify (1.0.5.186) that causes the album art to not show up on certain Local files. When playing a song with Album art that doesn't work, Spotify will instead show the album art of the song that was previously played still. (Clean reinstallation does not solve this) What I've found to be the cause is that certain symbols that can either be found in the tracks naming or in the main file itself for some reason causes this to happen. The two symbols I've found to mainly cause this is apostrophes and parenthesis (There might be more). Since it's not much of solution to remove all these symbols from the files' names (As it would take a long time and ruin the name of some songs), this bug still needs a fix, but I hope this can somehow contribute to making the problem easier to solve :smileyhappy:

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Thanks for your post.
Are you still having trouble with this? If so, could you let us know the version of Spotify that you're running at current?
Also, could you let us know the version of OS you're using on your device?
We'd love to forward this onto our team here!
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