Question How to completely disable album art in VLC media player ?

[spacelag]

Disable background cone or art.
Is what I found. and it should work but it won't. Also this option is quite hidden very well.
I don't know why vlc doesn't have an ON or OFF. option with the mouse cursor going closer to the album art, cover art.
Searched every options in VLC player. None.
I mean it is just a picture for the CD. Why can't I turn it off easily ? Makes me think they have some reason to "prevent" ? this at this point.
The only method left is to remove every single picture 1 by 1 with another software.

Reason is many times it's not even the right image for the album and many images are actually bad and distractive like an AD. I just want white or black square at the image part. Absolute peace.

 

[Ralston18]

FYI (current link):

https://howtodoninja.com/how-to/customize-vlc-media-player-interface/

Lots of details regarding configuration options and settings.

Read through the link but remember that the desired option (disable album art) may not be explicitly presented.

Are you able to find where the images are stored and view the filename, file type, and file specs?

 

[spacelag]

FYI (current link):

https://howtodoninja.com/how-to/customize-vlc-media-player-interface/

Lots of details regarding configuration options and settings.

Read through the link but remember that the desired option (disable album art) may not be explicitly presented.

Are you able to find where the images are stored and view the filename, file type, and file specs?

Mostly it's probably inside the mp3 song file as a metadata or something. Used mp3tag like software and could remove it. But it's not always in the album folder so the location probably doesn't really matter where the image is.
That read is like wow so hard for me. I'm not really sure if it's really a complete custom modding.
Removing 1 by 1 would definitely be faster than trying to learn this thing.

 

[Ralston18]

Try another approach.

Pretend that you wish to add album art.

FYI:

https://appuals.com/how-to-add-album-art-to-mp3-in-windows-10/

Read the entire link. VLC player is presented about 1/2 the way down when the link is scrolled.

Go though the steps but without changing anything as best you can. Or create a test folder with copies of some .mp3 files to test.

Especially look at Steps 3 & 4: Media Information and Add Cover Art from file.

You may be able to turn off or otherwise disable that feature. Or put the desired icon in the designated folder.

Find some "white or black square" images/icons to test with. Put those images in a folder that can be referenced if and when needed.

Determine what you can discover, learn, and do.

As always be sure that all music files are backed up and proven both recoverable and readable.