In article , Pete  wrote:

>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.`

Ah, I see why my VLC has never done that to me (it only shows artwork
physically embedded in the mp3 as metadata) :-

Tools/Preferences/Interface

"Privacy/Network Interaction"/Album Art Download Policy

[x] "Manual Download Only"
[ ] "When track starts playing"
[ ] "As soon as track is added"

Either I switched that off on first install, or the default was "don't do
that".
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