# Album art disappearing after adding album name (VLC)

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-after-adding-album-name-vlc/62397>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-after-adding-album-name-vlc/62397 "2023-10-13T19:52:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SeQwin](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@SeQwin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SeQwin)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-after-adding-album-name-vlc/62397/1 "2023-10-13T19:52:34Z")

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As per the title:  
I was adding tags and embedding a cover to an album, and after finishing I found VLC wouldn't load the album art. I then trial-and-errored my way through putting a "cover.jpg" of the image in the folder, removing all tags and adding them back one at a time. Eventually I found that only on adding the album's name and saving the change, VLC would no longer display the album art. I tested this in the same folder with the same files, both album-named and left blank, and only the blank album-named files would display the album art.

 ![With album-name](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c785d602da600161edfb4ee3df19871488955a56.png)  
 ![Without album-name](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/220caa769699760a335b850bb85046f0eab6e996.png)

This happens every time without fail thus far, and i'm at a loss as to why. I've edited similar files with all tags added/changed and had no issues. Clearly the files themselves aren't corrupted fully - they still play and can still display properly without an album name - but I'm unsure what could be wrong at this point. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-after-adding-album-name-vlc/62397/2 "2023-10-13T20:01:03Z")

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Could you show us a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T for that troublesome file?

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-disappearing-after-adding-album-name-vlc/62397/3 "2026-02-09T12:30:10Z")

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