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Title: A little warning about automatic cover art settings
Post by: Hercaz on November 17, 2020, 22:23:18

Hello I just registered to inform, that automatic cover art setting for media files should be off as default. It is in Preferences>Player>album art>find in file location and "allow catching" should be ticked off too.

This is for security reasons mainly, because for example when you download media file from internet to your desktop and you play that file through AIMP the program scans the desktop folder and sets the random image for cover art. Now this is OK, but if you share that file with someone, that picture moves with that media file to the other users... This can introduce a security flaw, if for example you have some important documents on the same folder. Your personal pictures or even photographed documents such as billing information when you bought something with your personal information on that document can be leaked without you even realizing how and where that information got leaked. These kind of documents usually end up on the desktop, because they are important and you want them to be easy accessible. 

Just wanted to warn people that you should pay attention to this setting, or manage your media files in a way where they wont get mixed with personal data and personal documents in the same folder. 

Title: Re: A little warning about automatic cover art settings
Post by: Artem on November 18, 2020, 10:16:21

Hello,

1. The "download album arts from Internet" is switched off by default.
2. Yes, player catches images for a file, but it does not embed it to file tags, so if your share music file with other user your image will stay on your desktop and will not be shared.
3. Cache located in your profile folder as all other user settings, it is not public data. So, I see no reason to disable it by default.

Title: Re: A little warning about automatic cover art settings
Post by: Hercaz on November 18, 2020, 12:34:01

Hello, thank you for clarification.

So there is different software being used to put the original cover art to the media files? 

Title: Re: A little warning about automatic cover art settings
Post by: Artem on November 18, 2020, 13:02:15

Quote from: Hercaz on November 18, 2020, 12:34:01

Hello, thank you for clarification.

So there is different software being used to put the original cover art to the media files? 

Of course, we have tag editing feature in our product, but AIMP does not embed downloaded album arts to file tags automatically.