diff --git a/src/components/player/TrackInfo/AlbumArt.tsx b/src/components/player/TrackInfo/AlbumArt.tsx
index 40c9564e..438d8a86 100644
--- a/src/components/player/TrackInfo/AlbumArt.tsx
+++ b/src/components/player/TrackInfo/AlbumArt.tsx
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ const AlbumArt: React.FC<Props> = ({
         useNativeDriver: true,
       }),
     ]).start(() => {
+      console.log('artwork', track?.artwork);
       console.log('TrackInfo: Setting imagevisible to Image', !isImageVisible);
       setIsImageVisible(false);
     });
diff --git a/src/stores/appStore.ts b/src/stores/appStore.ts
index 3a6a1e21..7c839155 100644
--- a/src/stores/appStore.ts
+++ b/src/stores/appStore.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
 import { logger } from '@utils/Logger';
 import rejson from '../utils/rejson.json';
 import { LoadJSONRegExtractors } from '../utils/re';
-import { SOURCE } from '@enums/MediaFetch';
 
 interface AppStore {
   pipMode: boolean;
@@ -181,12 +180,9 @@ export const cacheResolvedURL = async (
   ) {
     logger.debug(`[CacheResolveURL] ${song.parsedName} needs to be refetched.`);
     const result = await resolveURL(song);
-    // HACK: do not cache any local source files
-    if (song.source !== SOURCE.local) {
-      appStore.setState({
-        cachedResolveURLMap: { ...cachedResolveURLMap, [song.id]: result },
-      });
-    }
+    appStore.setState({
+      cachedResolveURLMap: { ...cachedResolveURLMap, [song.id]: result },
+    });
     return result;
   }
   return cachedResolvedURL;
diff --git a/src/utils/mediafetch/local.ts b/src/utils/mediafetch/local.ts
index 51fc9281..bd342ba7 100644
--- a/src/utils/mediafetch/local.ts
+++ b/src/utils/mediafetch/local.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  * each site needs a fetch to parse regex extracted, a videoinfo fetcher and a song fetcher.
  */
 import { Platform, NativeModules } from 'react-native';
+import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-blob-util';
 
 import { probeMetadata, cacheAlbumArt } from '@utils/ffmpeg/ffmpeg';
 import { SOURCE } from '@enums/MediaFetch';
@@ -55,7 +56,9 @@ const regexFetch = async ({
 });
 
 const resolveURL = async (song: NoxMedia.Song) => {
-  return { url: song.bvid, cover: await cacheAlbumArt(song.bvid) };
+  const artworkURI = await cacheAlbumArt(song.bvid);
+  const artworkBase64 = await RNFetchBlob.fs.readFile(artworkURI, 'base64');
+  return { url: song.bvid, cover: `data:image/png;base64,${artworkBase64}` };
 };
 
 const refreshSong = (song: NoxMedia.Song) => song;