In article , I 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...
>
So, to close this out...

To satisfy my curiosity, in the end I did some tcpdumping, and found
that vlc is querying 'mb.videolan.org' (aka goldeneye.videolan.org)
for the data.  The query it sends uses the 'Artist' and 'Title' tags
I supplied when I created the file.  The answers seem to come back
from musicbrainz.org.`

Which means it's all open-source stuff, And I was chuffed to see
that the html headers videolan returns all include good old
"X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" (:-))

 -- Pete --

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