I haven't opened Musicbee in maybe a week, but last time I opened it, the selection border you see there snapped to the edges of the picture and did not extend downwards. The following screenshot shows the issue with text overlap, though it's my general aesthetic preference anyway that the border be around the album artwork only.
I appreciate your suggestion about changing fields, but I've gone through the Customize Panel Settings for Artwork display several times to try to address these issues. From what I can see, there's no way to specify an album artwork field in any dropdown menu, if that's what you're thinking. I also am unable to identify anywhere where this selection border gets set up. I would really appreciate it if there was some way to just do "selection border settings" or something of the kind. Previous inquiries to this forum that I can find on Google seem to suggest it's part of the .xlm or .xlmc file for skins, but I have this problem across all skins, both those included in the app and those I downloaded from this forum for testing. I remember back when I first downloaded Musicbee probably around 2013 or 2014, you could deselect albums by ctrl+clicking a selected album. That feature has been gone for a long time, and I've learned to tolerate the lingering highlight, but it is quite the eyesore now that the border dips down the way it does. Maybe we can just shift gears to a fix like that. Does anyone here know how to merely deselect an album without having to refresh the library?
Further, the artist display issue is difficult to solve. Do I need to go figure out how to make a custom variable for it? Because if I choose to display "Artist" under "Title" in settings, it displays artist for ALL releases, even releases where every track has the same artist. Just one week ago, Musicbee was able to identify when I needed that artist display and when not, and it does it now as evidenced by the fact it's putting artist names in brackets on v/a releases. How do I just move the content of the brackets back to where they were a week ago instead of having them display the way they are now? Am I just missing the appropriate variable in this menu (noted by arrow below)?