[HTC Inspire 4G] SmittyRN:
ROFLMAO!!!!

I'm still working on the problem. Here's what I have tried at this point. From what I've found out by playing with it before, there are 3 toggles in the settings for album art; the "download album art" in the mobile network area, the "use embedded album art" and "album art settings" in the Others area. You would think the "download" toggle being turned off would keep it from downloading art; you would be wrong. You have got to have the "use embedded album art" and "album art settings" toggled on to see any art at all, but if they are on the player will download art faster than I can delete it. So I wanted to wipe everything, start from scratch, and make sure it wasn't pulling art from the SD card.

Like I said, I formatted my SD card after I wiped for a fresh ROM install. I made sure that the "download album art" toggle was off before I manually dropped some music on it while in Airplane mode. Turned the radios back on, checked for bad art. Good to go at that point; now, I needed to mass move more music to it. I checked Doubletwist, it doesn't have an album art component to it, so it only will transfer over embedded album art. I transferred over some of the music that has been picking up the bad art over using the Airsync for Doubletwist.

(Note: I'm using Doubletwist/Airsync for a few reasons. One, since I've been using iTunes for years to manage my music, it will transfer over playlists from iTunes. Using Airsync, it will sync it over wifi. Probably the biggest reason I'm using it is that I've already paid for Airsync.)

Turned airplane mode back on, played with the music player for a while, no bad artwork, so I know it wasn't embedded in the music. Turned the radios back on, messed with it for a while, and it started showing up again... damn! Funny thing is, it plugs the same goofy album cover on multiple albums/artists. At this point, it's got about 5 favorite album covers, with a scattering of others thrown in. At least I know where it's storing them, so I deleted the entire miui/music/album folder and started the big music sync.

Checked on the music folder periodically during the transfer; still no music/album folder, so I was feeling pretty hopeful at this point, hoping things were gonna stick. Went to sleep, let the transfer finish, woke up and checked things out. Still no music/album folder, woo hoo! Started writing this post, went ahead and played with it and checked it out; it had created the folder, but it was empty. Still hopeful, I let the Cover Art Downloader app pull in some missing artwork. Checked the folder, and it had 1 single album cover in there. After a while, it was filling up again... ugh. Deleted the entire folder again, but it kept creating it and downloading bad art.

Now here's the interesting part; while writing this post, I referred to the settings of the music player and switched the toggles a few times. As of now, since I last deleted the music/album folder, it hasn't come back. Now I'm thinking that you have to cycle through the toggles before the settings will stick. I'm going to keep playing with the phone tonight, and I'll let you know if my viral art starts popping back up.