# Album Cover Image Mostly Black **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 6, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446 "2019-02-06T18:29:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bright) #### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/1 "2019-02-06T18:29:44Z")
Sometimes when putting in a cover image I get: ![Album%20Cover](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/972cf9ed1d0f6dfe68760d75c649d1ae5ce4d615.png) When the source image is: [Original File](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439824287l/25497011.jpg) And in players the image displays as: ![Pot%20Player](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/252f9c67fee9ff7ee527cf0e81f1d251611bfcfc.png) How do I stop Mp3tag v2.93 from altering the image? I was also experiencing this issue before updating to v2.93 when using v2.92. ---
### 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: [February 6, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/2 "2019-02-06T18:43:06Z")
> [@Bright](#): > > How do I stop Mp3tag v2.93 from altering the image? You don't have to do anything. MP3tag takes the image already as it is. So I would investigate what the source file really looks like - when I take your original file, I get the same dimensions: 312x475 but that file has only a size of 143 kb. Where do the 565 KB come from in your picture? ---
### Author: ![Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bright) #### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/3 "2019-02-06T18:51:54Z")
The file I uploaded in my original post is 708 KB before uploading it to [community.mp3tag.de](http://community.mp3tag.de) . I'll post the image address of the source image in my original post instead of having this website compress it and change it. ---
### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian) #### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/4 "2019-02-06T18:58:43Z")
I think it’s a progressive JPG that needs to be converted to baseline. ---
### 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: [February 6, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/5 "2019-02-06T18:59:59Z")
I also found that it has the CMYK colour encoding instead of the RGB for screens. Baseline is not enough I think, you also have to convert CMYK into RGB. Then it works ---
### Author: ![Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Bright](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bright) #### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/6 "2019-02-06T19:04:56Z")
An online tool I found does indicate it is a progressive JPG so I'll investigate converting it to baseline and then to RGB. ---
### 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, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-cover-image-mostly-black/44446/7 "2026-02-09T12:27:54Z")