Music library album thumbnails

I have seen many others with this problem, and I tried all of the solutions presented, but to no avail.

On my computer (Windows 7 Home Premium SP1), no user is able to see the album art in the music library when the option to arrange by: Album. All I get is the default image to an eighth note. Art is present, it is in the records, it is still visible in Windows Media Player and it USED to be visible in Windows Explorer arrange by: Album, but something has caused it isn't more visible. I don't know when it happened, so I can't use system restore.

Among other things, I've tried to include the uninstall recently updated or installed programs affecting the media, change file associations, uninstall Windows Media Player, ripping of new CD, delete the settings of WMP folder, new libraries, restore the default libraries, clear the cache of thumbnails, establishing a new library of music-model of different music and uninstall all Apple software.

Two things stands out on the symptoms: the problem that happens to all USERS, then solutions involving user-specific changes probably are not the answer; and not all types of files are affected. I see again the album art for .m4p and .m4b files (or who play in WMP, is told by the way).

This can help.  An another MVP (also named Shawn coincidentally) has a collection of all the registry settings of connection by default file on this page, and it turns out that M4A is listed.

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