My album artwork is showing pictures from my gallery.

[Android Central Question]

I started using a new player (Retro Music) and it has been working amazingly since it became my default player. However, just recently, most of my library's album art has been replaced with pictures from my gallery. I've edited the tags, but no matter what, nothing would change. I tested Samsung Music and it's the same problem, only to a much lesser degree. When looking through the mp3 files on the phone themselves, their artwork is perfectly fine and so are the copies on my computer, so I just assumed it was the players. I reinstalled all the apps, restarted my phone, and downloaded a third party album art editor only to find that the same gallery images show up on that editor too and it can't change them either. Also, deleting the images from the gallery just leads to the artwork switching to another image in the same gallery. I don't necessarily find this to be a big deal. It's just quite annoying and it would be great to fix it.

 

[Rukbat]

All media apps get their data from the Media Scan database. so it sounds as if your database is getting corrupted. Have you restarted the phone recently? If not, shut it off and let it sit for a few seconds, then turn it on again, to force Media Scanner to build a new database. (If you're using an SD card, take it out when the phone is off. If it's a counterfeit card and you started filling it, it could be overwriting files.)