# Auto-tag cover art for collection
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 11, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031 "2006-03-11T14:45:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Eli](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Eli)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/1 "2006-03-11T14:45:56Z")
My music is arranged in artist/album/
Each album folder has a folder.jpg of the cover art in it.
I cant figure out how to AUTOMATICALLY add the album covers to the correct songs for my entire collection.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/2 "2006-03-11T15:02:29Z")
Hi Eli!
Just create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1) Import cover from file and enter **folder.jpg** as format string for the image filename.
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@Eli](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Eli)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/3 "2006-03-11T22:32:42Z")
works ok, except it has crashed 3 time on me while in the process. And each time I have to re-scan 12000 songs to restart mp3tag and then it reproces all of the files, including those it has previously added cover art to. Any way to get it to skip songs with cover art?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/4 "2006-03-11T22:37:15Z")
You can create a new column via View \> Columns for the number of covers included in the tag by using the %\_covers% placeholder. This placeholder is only available with the latest [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de).
Would be great if you could reproduce the crashes. It's maybe due to some broken JPGs.
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### Author:  [@Eli](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Eli)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/5 "2006-03-12T01:30:00Z")
Is there a way to not have to re-scan the library with each startup? This takes ~15-20 min on a 2500+ with a gig of ram.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/6 "2006-03-12T08:16:55Z")
No. This is not possible.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-tag-cover-art-for-collection/3031/7 "2025-11-10T11:17:06Z")
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