On 26/05/2020 23:40, Pete wrote:
> While I'm here, I have another question... I play back the files
> several ways, but I was amused/startled/slightly-horrified that
> when I use vlc, it pops up an image of an album cover for many
> of the files! What is it using to find that? Some of the metadata
> I added, I suppose. Must be going to the cloud...
It's a setting: look up track info/album art online, yes or no. Often it
gets the right info just by looking at a directory with a certain number
of tracks of a certain length. (And by going online, submitting that
info and getting something relevant back from the database.) Most widely
used, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
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