Mp3tag allows you to do that
I use Discogs to add Cover Art - Via Mp3tag all the time. On Windows I also use AlbumArt Downloader, which you can link in Mp3tag via tools
or Support Page
https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,57392.0.html
I never leave Mp3tag, except then starting my browser to find lyrics, but Mp3tag is my only tool for tagging and AlbumArt
@LyricsLover Posted a very good alternative!
Ok..thanks..think I shall just have to change my method slightly…as it seems that all the changes need to be done within mp3tag I’m guessing.. thanks for all the assistance from everyone… appreciated.
It's always good to use only 1 program for changes to tags.
I use for example irfanview to resize the AlbumArt when it's to big, but then I switch back to Mp3tag to import the Cover into the file.
Or another example. I use Notepad++ to paste Lyrics info from the Web, change it in Notepad++ to my liking and then paste it into the file, in Mp3tag in the UnsyncedLyrics (spelling) tag.
So you can use many programs, but only stay with one program to write the tags.
Thx @LyricsLover
But I love to keep my album art in certain size range not pixels but bytes and that does irfanview
Edit: it's done via the RIOT Plugin in irfanview
We still don't know how you really did it. From your description I would think that you mean the Windows Explorer but you cannot add albumart with the properties menu of Windows Explorer.
So I think you display your files with another piece of software, maybe a player?
Thanks for that.. Just did one other thing
I changed the title on one track ..just removed three letters in the song title in the widows file..refreshed mp3 tag and this changed the trank and disc number of just that track..so any changes form an external source seems to affect the track and disc numbering and the change to the title but nothing else.. interesting..
Yes.. Windows explorer is where I was changing album art or a song title..very simple..nothing complex..
Not interesting, but to be expected
You just can't two different programs to behave the same, and I see you use Windows Explorer, stop doing that. Just use Mp3tag if you love your music
Can you please upload a screenshot of the Windows-Explorer menu where you can add albumart.
I can confirm, that changing a tagfield in the properties of Windows explorer changes the track number from ie. 01/13 to 1 in flac files..
The explorer displays already 1 instead of 01/13. If you change anything the explorer saves 1 to the file. This does not happen with mp3s.
The windows explorer has always been buggy with changing media-properties in different cases, especially with flac-files.
Don't use the file-properties of the windows explorer to edit your music files.
PS:
If you use VLC to change tags, the leading zero will also be gone. The totals will be saved in TRACKTOTAL, also without leading zeros. VLC does this not only with flac-files but also with mp3-files.
Yep..known this for a long time..just thought I’d throw the question out there..after 150000 tracks.. it’s groundhog day..
This is not a built-in feature in Windows 10 or Windows 11.
So, which third-party tool do you have installed that offers this extended functionality to directly add a album cover in the Windows File Explorer properties?
Of course its just windows explorer..its just a screen print from my PC..just that I have dual screens.
No. I don't doubt that this is a screenshot from your PC. The explorer looks like the windows 10 Explorer, the properties-window looks like something else, maybe a plugin for media-purposes or just an addon for the context-menue, that you installed some time ago and don't remember you did this.
The original windows-explorer properties windows looks like this:
Well I guess you can believe what you want…But its windows 10..Not sure what you are getting at…. so its over and out on this from me..
To my experience, decent help is only feasible, especially over the distance when a look over the shoulder is virtually impossible, if a scenario can be reproduced.
This usually requires a detailed description of the local environment.
Right now a discrepancy has been detected as apparently no-one of the other participants in this thread can open a properties dialogue similar to the one that you presented and which is equipped with functions that also cannot be accessed by others.
But as the behaviour that you described seems to be linked closely to these extra functions, it would now be a next step to identify the source of these extra functions.
If, on the other hand, you consider the problem to be solved or not worth further investigations and suggestions, that is fine. But then please say so.
I was not sure who the person called “poster’ was or what his role is. Was not sure whether he was trying to help or what.. as when he wrote “No. I don't doubt that this is a screenshot from your PC.” I misread it as “I doubt that this is a screenshot from your PC.” as I guess I was watching TV at the same time and did not give it my full attention.
But on re reading I do apologize.
I simply rip my CD’s using DBPoweramp..store the uncompressed FLAC on my hard drive. “Massage” it with mp3tag to add/ correct composer info or typos, do auto numbering etc.
The I create copies in FLAC Level 5, ALAC and LAME from the FLAC Uncompressed using dbPoweramp Batch Converter.
I usually then have to do auto re numbering on the FLAC Level 5 version as it doesn’t carry across from the FLAC Uncompressed.
If at a later date happen to make a change by using windows explorer I usually have to check that it did not affect the track or disc numbering and if it did redo it.
But in future I guess I will just use mp3tag.
I also took it that any changes made outside mp3tag with regards to the issue I was experiencing needed to be corrected by using mp3tag after I changed it using windows explorer. And I am fine with that if that is how it has to be.
When I look at properties of my files using explorer with Win 10 Pro 64bit I get exactly the image that I added..no other program(s) are involved..just highlighting the track or tracks ..right click with the mouse and select properties..go to ID Tag and I get:
The right side is just the second screen that go included in the Print Screen.
I do not see an image like:
And I was under the impression from some of the other posts that if I made a change in anything other than mp3tag then I had to perform more steps in mp3tag and just live with it.
To me the scenario is easily reproduced and I’ve been working around it for a long time.
If you think there may be a “fix” that would be great but if it is the way mp3tag works and nothing can be done that’s fine also.
Maybe I’m the only person who bothers doing this with track and disc numbering and correcting composer info etc etc..got to get a life..
Did not want to get into any angst over it..getting too old for that… and I did appreciate the help offered.
Thanks
Judging from the screenshot, it looks like the property sheet handler of dBpoweramp Music Converter, which hooks itself into Windows file properties.
