# Albums Covers Are Not Being Saved
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784 "2020-07-30T11:24:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/1 "2020-07-30T11:24:47Z")
I have just started using this program and the program is not saving the album covers it is saving track metadata just not the cover. What could I be doing wrong I am getting track into from Discogs??
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/2 "2020-07-30T11:41:00Z")
> [@DJboutit](#):
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> What could I be doing wrong I am getting track into from Discogs??
In the web source dialogue where you see the files and all the metadata check the settings in the button menu of the "Utils" button at the bottom left.
Click on that button and set where you want to save the images.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/3 "2020-07-30T11:59:14Z")
On the program in the little square box in the lower left where the image should be showing it is not showing??
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/4 "2020-07-30T12:03:33Z")
This sounds like you ask about the tag panel. Press Ctrl-Q to hide and show it so that we know that we both mean the same.
Actually, what I refer to as you say
> [@DJboutit](#):
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> I am getting track into from Discog
sounds to me as though you use the web source script to access discogs.
And that function has as last dialogue one where you see a button "Utils" in the lower left corner. The OK button is on the right.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/5 "2020-08-02T07:51:17Z")
When I do auto metadata info from like Allmusic or Discogs the album covers are not being saved they are not showing in the box in the lower left. I know how to add and save covers manually.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/6 "2020-08-02T08:12:17Z")
> [@DJboutit](#):
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> metadata info from like Allmusic or Discogs the album covers are not being saved
And it will stay like that if you do not see whether options in the Utils menu are checked.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/7 "2020-08-02T08:14:59Z")
> [@DJboutit](#):
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> When I do auto metadata info from like Allmusic or Discogs the album covers are not being saved
As Ohrenkino already wrote:
Have a look at the Utils-Button in the left corner on the result page of your websource. There you can enable or disable "Save image to tag".
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/8 "2020-08-02T08:17:58Z")
I have already done that and they will still not show
 up
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/9 "2020-08-02T08:22:44Z")
Does this happen to all files of just this one?
To remove all doubt, I would recommend that you use the linked utilities to check the file:
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
To see a cover in the tag panel, you have to tick File\>Options\>Tag-Panel\>Show cover
and File\>Options\>Tags\>Do not show covers from the filesystem
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/10 "2020-08-02T08:28:44Z")
I have tried with 5 different tracks and still now working.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/11 "2020-08-02T08:29:55Z")
And have you checked the files with the tools and set the options as described?
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/12 "2020-08-02T08:31:07Z")
> [@DJboutit](#):
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> I have tried with 5 different tracks and still now working.
Are they all aac-tracks?
> [@Unable to edit/embed cover art in aac files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-edit-embed-cover-art-in-aac-files/8635/2):
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> Adding cover art to native AAC is not possible. If you'd use AAC inside MP4 adding cover art is possible.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/13 "2020-08-02T08:39:01Z")
I had Don't display first image form file directory as cover art I unselected it and album covers are now showing. Just tested with 2 tracks and cover are showing.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/14 "2020-08-02T08:43:08Z")
But you still have no image embedded in the file itself. This option only takes the first alphabetical image in the directory of the file.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/15 "2020-08-02T08:43:22Z")
Something is wrong with AAC tagging settings. You can add covers through Tag panel, but not via web sources it seems. Also both Tag options from Tags \> Mpeg and Tags \> Ape, Mpc affect what tags are written to aac files.
@Florian needs to take a look.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/16 "2020-08-02T08:45:40Z")
Does it show the one image or does it show none?? Do I need to use another program to add album covers??
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/17 "2020-08-02T08:52:03Z")
> [@dano](#):
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> You can add covers through Tag panel, but not via web sources it seems.
I tested it with an aac-sample from the internet because I have no aac-files.
I can drag&drop a file in the tag-panel and the extended tag-view. And I can add a file with an action "Import cover from file".
But I can't add a file from the context menue of the image-field and I can't add an image from a websource.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/18 "2020-08-02T08:53:27Z")
So need to use another program to add album art to the AAC tracks??
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/19 "2020-08-02T09:00:33Z")
poster wrote what you can do at the moment. Drag a cover file from a file manager like windows explorer into the cover field and save or use an action.
So use the web sources to search covers and save them to disk and then add them to the tag in a 2nd step.
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### Author:  [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/20 "2020-08-02T09:55:21Z")
Any free program that will add covers to AAC files automatically??
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