mciSendString() doesn't play audio files that have cover art

Question

I am making a music player, and I decided to use mciSendString(), and it worked just fine!

The issue is:

If the song I want to play has cover art, no music plays. If I manually remove the cover art using something like MP3tag, it then plays fine.

song = playlist.get(songnum); //this changes song which is a value holding a path from the old song to the path of the new song
command = mcicommand(song, "c", volume); //send back the new path to the function command to make us the new command to use in mcisend string
mciSendString(command.c_str(), NULL, 0, NULL);

string mcicommand(string path, string voc, string volume) {

    if (voc == "c") { //Play Command

        string command = "open type mpegvideo alias song"; //the template for the open command we will use

        int found = command.find(" "); //finds the first space in the template

        command = command.substr(0, found) + " \"" + path + "\"" + command.substr(found); //adds the stuff before the first space then the path after the first space then second space then everything after that second space

        return command; //returns the command which we will use in mcisend string
    }

    if (voc == "v") { //Volume command

        string command = "setaudio song volume to "; //same as the one before just with a different command string

        int found = command.find_last_of(" ");
        command = command.substr(0, found) + " " + volume;

        return command;
    }

}

So far, I used FFmpeg to read the info of the music files, and found out that the cover art is sort of defined as a track? So my assumption is that mciSendString() is trying to play the cover art instead of the actual audio track?

I cannot really decipher the documentations to understand how I can fix this.

Extra Info

Song that didn't played noise:

 Input #0, mp3, from 'Golden.mp3':
  Metadata:
                    : major_brand
    encoder         : Lavf57.56.101
  Duration: 00:01:54.08, start: 0.011995, bitrate: 138 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc57.64
  Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc), 400x225, 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic)
    Metadata:
      title           : attached picture
      comment         : Cover (front)

Song that played noise:

 Input #0, mp3, from 'HeatAFire.mp3':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: isommp42
    encoder         : Lavf58.29.100
  Duration: 00:03:59.05, start: 0.025057, bitrate: 128 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.54