In order to banish these spirits and get the VLC cone back, all you need to do is delete all of them from that folder. If any of these files are in a folder, it will be used as album art for everything in that folder. Based on the source code, the list of files that VLC looks for is: Folder.png This is not properly documented anywhere as far as I can tell, which is why it took me so long to work out what was going on. At least two of these files are hidden by Windows and might be automatically generated by some programs. What was actually happening: VLC will scan the folder audio files are in for a list of image file names, and if one of those files exists, will display it as the album art.
These are all things I attempted to fix first. In the end, this had absolutely nothing to do with VLC's settings or cache, or "Allow metadata internet access", or anything being embedded into the files themselves that could be removed with Mp3tag, or the \vlc\art folder. Incredibly the image itself breaks my anonymity so, for demonstration, I've used a spooky ghost here. The problem was that every audio file which had no embedded album art and was located in my Downloads folder, when opened in VLC, displayed the same specific wrong image as the album art. But I've finally worked it out now, and in the interest of documenting these things where the crawlers might be listening (and just in case anybody here happens to be currently dealing with the same thing), this is what was happening and how I fixed it. This is a technical problem I ran into that, when Googled, led to a lot of partial solutions and dead ends, so for almost two years I just sort of dealt with it.
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