Windows 11 Why has Windows Media Player Legacy started duplicating album art?

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Windows Media Player Legacy has started fetching multiple album art files for a music album. The jpg files look the same but are stored as separate OS level hidden files! Unlike iTunes which keeps fetched media art files in a separate folder, Windows Media Player Legacy stores the media art files in the same folder as the actual music files which unnecessarily bloats file count and makes keeping backups of the music folder in sync difficult. Either these hidden OS files capturing media art shouldn't show up in folder file count/size, or they should be kept in a separate dedicated folder like i

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