# APIC picture type
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 17, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868 "2011-04-17T05:13:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@thor42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thor42)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868/1 "2011-04-17T05:13:33Z")
Hi,
i'm new to mp3tag and trying to export cover art.
I would like to have a different filename for front cover and back cover.
Actually it exports to something.jpg and something.jpg.jpg
Inside MP3tag i could rightclick the cover and define the picture type,
but how could be the picture type from APIC used to create the export action filename.
Actual:
V:\%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)\_%title%
Wanted:
V:\%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%_%picture\_type%
But %picture\_type% doesn't exists. Is there a macro/name for this?
It doesn't matter if the hex-byte or the text is used.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868/2 "2011-04-17T05:49:06Z")
> [@thor42](#):
>
> Hi, i'm new to mp3tag and trying to export cover art. ...
Read the Mp3tag Help Manual.
Find the list of technical information pseudo tag-fields and see what pseudo tag-field can be useful for you.
DD.20110417.0950.CEST
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### Author:  [@thor42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thor42)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868/3 "2011-04-17T09:38:19Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Read the Mp3tag Help Manual.
> Find the list of technical information pseudo tag-fields and see what pseudo tag-field can be useful for you.
>
> DD.20110417.0950.CEST
I was able to found the page [technical info mp3tag](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list)
but the value of the %\_cover\_type% always contains the text for the first cover. Therefore using this action:
V:\%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%_%\_cover\_type%
the created filenames are similiar like before:
something\_Front Cover.jpg
something\_Front Cover.jpg.jpg // instead would like to have something\_Back Cover.jpg
Does a tag value exists to achive this?
Have I missed something how to use actions?
Or is the APIC picture\_type value just not reachable for each cover?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/apic-picture-type/11868/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:02Z")