Action to rename cover

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Hi there, is there a way to rename album art (for example, cover.jpg) so that it is renamed as thenameofthealbum.jpg

For example, let's say I have an album called "Apples and Oranges". I would like the cover to be named Apples and Oranges.jpg instead of cover.jpg.

2

There is an action to export embedded covers where you can set a format string which also may include field variables:

If you refer to the web sources then set a file name for the picture in
File>Options>Tag sources.

3

I assume still not possible to do this directly though a format string?

I guess one could just use action group with Import cover from file and Export cover to file. :grin:

That would leave you with both files though.

4

True.
But, honestly, MP3tag is a program to tag files and not a file renaming program. You don't even see which other files are also in the scanned file system. So how should MP3tag guess that a certain other file is the cover belonging to an album.
This connection is only establshed if the picture data has been embedded.

Also true if you do not delete them with means of the OS.
After you have imported the picture files you could

  • open a command shell
  • navigate to the top folder
  • enter the command del /s cover.jpg
    and all files with the name cover.jpg in all the subfolders will be deleted.

The you could export the picture data and probably only the new images will be there.

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iIn addition to what ohrenkino wrote:
Files other than music files are normally not displayed in Mp3Tag. You can change this if you want by adding the file extensions used for cover files to Mp3Tag under File->Options->Tags->Restrict incoming files to. Then the cover files will also be displayed in the list view of Mp3Tag.

However, these cover files do not have any metadata that Mp3Tag can use. So the only option is to use placeholders that are not metadata assigned to the file.
This includes, for example, %_directory% and %_parent_directory%.
So if you have set up your file structure according to the scheme Albumartist\Album\Files, for example, you could mark the cover files and rename them with the format string %albumartist% - %album% in the converter Tag->Filename or a corresponding action of the type Format Value for the field %_filename%.