Album Art Not showing in MP3 Tag since upgrade to Win11

[ChipUK]

Hi I recently upgraded to a new PC running win 11. I copied all my music files over but in the MP3 Tag app the album art is missing. I have tried to work out why but it's defeated me. What has gone wrong or changed?

[ohrenkino]

check whether you have APE tags in your files and if so, whether you read them. See the options Ctrl-O for these settings.

Play around with the settings and reload the files to see if the covers appear again.
Or see this thread:

No covers displayed

Hi, I recently updated mp3tag from 2.38 to the latest version 2.40. Thing is now none of my covers are displayed on the side panel when I select a song. I have all my albums with the following structure: Artist\Album (Year)... with a folder.jpg (300x300) inside all album folders. I've tried changing the "Default filename for cover art" option to folder.jpg with no avail. Am I missing something? (I find it weird I'm the only one with this issue as far as I can tell, which seems to indicate that …

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esp. in respect to screenshots and the extended tags dialogue.

[ChipUK]

Thanks for the info - The box 'Don't show Artwork on first track' was checked for some reason. After unchecking it - all artwork showing as normal. Thank you for the fast reply.

[ohrenkino]

@ChipUK

After unchecking it - all artwork showing as normal

That is not very re-assuring as it means that the pictures are not embedded in your files but reside only in the file system.
As soon as you move the audio files to a different folder (e.g. a mobile phone or your car stereo) they will appear without cover. This also applies to players that rely on embedded pictures and do not look at the file system if the find any odd picture file.

You can filter for files without embedded picture with
%_covers% MISSING

And you can embed pictures with an action

Import Cover from File – Mp3tag Documentation

in which you can set the picture name like folder.jpg, cover.jpg or even *.jpg to get the first jpg file from the folder.

[ChipUK]

I have tried to use the filter but I get no results. Am I doing something wrong?

[ohrenkino]

@ohrenkino

You can filter for files without embedded picture with
%_covers% MISSING

The filter looks for files without cover. If you do not see files, then all the files have covers.

[ChipUK]

I am using the filter because you advised that the Artwork was not embedded and this would locate the errant files. If I'm not getting an results then the files must have embedded artwork?
So why do I not see the artwork when files are sent to a usb drive?

[MotleyG]

@ChipUK

So why do I not see the artwork when files are sent to a usb drive?

Check the files directly on the USB drive using mp3tag to see if the covers exist. If they do then your issue is on the other device or player.

[ohrenkino]

@ChipUK

because you advised that the Artwork was not embedded

I got to that conclusion as you described that you unticked the option to display the pictures from the file system.
Now it looks as though the files have embedded pictures - and that means also, that MP3tag has more or less nothing to do with that what the player or whatever third party program makes of the existing data.

@ChipUK

So why do I not see the artwork when files are sent to a usb drive?

With which program do you check the pictures?
The windows explorer likes to see the external file folder.jpg and does not care about embedded pictures (mostly).