"Front cover" icons missing after recent update.

My Pixel8a (latest Software update - January) recently updated VLC to 3.60 2025-01-08.

After it did so, when I go into Audio Albums (they are all podcasts) and select a set of podcasts, in the resulting list the left-hand icons are missing and the top item in the list now has an orange bar on the right, which goes away after 3s.

I'd have expected all of the "front cover" icons to appear on the left hand side, as they always did before.

Also, the orange bar on the right-hand side is new (I've never seen it before) and it prevents me from selecting the drop-down list (⋮) to select an action (I wish to select "Add to play queue") until it times-out.

To reproduce.

1. Have a series of podcasts (or songs from the same album?)
2. Select Audio -> Albums -> that series/album
3. Look at the list you see.