How to save images as album arts according to audio filenames

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Hi everyone! First post for me :slight_smile:

After a downloading process (thanks to jdownloader) I've thousands files like so:

Queen - Love of My Life (256kbit).m4a
Queen - Love of My Life (BQ).jpg

Queen - Bicycle (128kbit).m4a
Queen - Bicycle (HQ).jpg

Gary Jules - Mad World (256kbit).m4a
Gary Jules - Mad World (BQ).jpg

...

How can we embed the images to their audio files as album arts? Files are not exactly same but alike.

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Apply the action "Import cover from file".
This imports the cover art specified by the absolute or relative filename into the tag of the file.
You can use placeholders like %artist% or %album%.
You can use wildcards like ? or *.

So it should be feasable to do ... having ...
music file: Queen - Bicycle (128kbit).m4a
image file: Queen - Bicycle (HQ).jpg
... apply action ...
"Import cover from file".
Format string for image filename: $regexp(%_filename%,'(.$','')
Import cover as: Front Cover

For image filename which is not exactly the same as the music filename, you may use a format string like ...

$regexp(%_filename%,'\W','?')'.jpg' ==> "Queen???Bicycle??128kbit?.jpg"

... this replaces all characters, which are not letters or numbers or underline character, with the ? wildcard.

$regexp(%_filename%,'\W+','*')'.jpg' ==> "Queen*Bicycle*128kbit*.jpg"

... this replaces all sequences of characters, which are not letters or numbers or underline character, with the * wildcard.

$regexp($regexp(%_filename%,'\(.*\)$','*'),'\W+','*')'.jpg' ==> "Queen*Bicycle*.jpg"

... this replaces all sequences of characters, which are not letters or numbers or underline character, with the * wildcard, and replaces the trailing parenthetical expression with the * wildcard.

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If you have the files in separate folders (e.g. one per album including the audio- and the picture files) then you can use the *.jpg mechanism that selects the first picture file from a folder to import as albumart.

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That's what I need !

It works like a charm ! :smiley:

I know some regex and your examples helped me understand quickly. Great thanks DetlevD!

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I am sorry, very new to this, I still don't get this. This solution is exactly what I need to do. However, I still don't have the right syntax entered in the Import Cover Art from file action. My file location is K:\album_art and the jpeg files are named "Artist - Title" my MP3 files are all "Artist - Title" as well, so they all should match up. Please help me with the exact syntax.

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The filename of the audio file is only of interest if you want to use that a source for the picture filename...

I assume that you have filled the tags so that the field %artist% and %title% contain data.

So, in the import cover from file dialogue enter the following as filename:
K:\album_art\%artist% - %title%.jpg

If you really only have the filename as data source, try this as filename for the covers:
K:\album_art\%_filename%.jpg