# Auto import Covers into mp4 files from 2 folders

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-import-covers-into-mp4-files-from-2-folders/48848>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-import-covers-into-mp4-files-from-2-folders/48848 "2020-05-05T01:57:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![satori](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/satori/32/7617_2.png) [@satori](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/satori)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-import-covers-into-mp4-files-from-2-folders/48848/1 "2020-05-05T01:57:07Z")

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Hello,

I'm new to the forum and did my due diligence in trying to find a topic that would address my case, to no avail.

I got, say, 100 \*.mp4 files in a folder.  
I also got 100 \*.jpg covers either in the same folder or in a separate folder (doesn't matter).

Why doesn't it matter ?

Because I named my covers the same way as my mp4 files :

file1.mp4  
file1.jpg

file2.mp4  
file2.jpg

etc...

I am looking for a way to automate the import of the \*jpg covers into their corresponding \*.mp4 names, or based on file names, to say it otherwise.

Would there be anyway to do that ?

You'd save me so much time!!

Thanks a million!

Bruno

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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:** [May 5, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-import-covers-into-mp4-files-from-2-folders/48848/2 "2020-05-05T04:33:40Z")

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There is an action to import covers, see the help:

> **[Import Cover from File – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/import-cover/)**
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> Documentation on the Import Cover action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

As the help states: you can define a cover file name using text constants and property variables.  
So, you could use as  
Format string: `E:\mymusic\covers\%_filename%.jpg`  
for a dedicated folder or  
Format string: `%_filename%.jpg`  
if the cover file is in the same folder (you could have both with 2 actions in an action group).  
I don't know, though, how you want to tell anybody to look for the files in 2 separate folders without getting an awful lot of messages of the kind "File not found". So it would be better to have all the cover files in the same folder.

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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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-import-covers-into-mp4-files-from-2-folders/48848/3 "2026-02-09T12:28:34Z")

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