Automatically making cover.jpg or cover.png the album cover over thousands of albums

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Hi all, I'm wanting to make replacing covers easier on myself (I do this so that all my covers are at least somewhat uniform, making sure none exceed 1024x1024 and making sure that the folder actually has the album cover, a lot of albums don't). Is there a way to make it auto check for a "cover.png" or "cover.jpg" file inside of each songs folder and apply it? Thanks all.

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A general remark: be sure to have backups in case anything goes wrong.

In MP3tag, you can create an action to automatically import cover art from a file named "cover.png" or "cover.jpg" in each song's folder. Here's how you can set it up:

  1. Open MP3tag.

  2. Go to "Actions" menu and select "Actions" or press Alt + 6 to open the Actions dialog.

  3. Click on "New" to create a new action group.

  4. Name your action group, for example, "Import Cover from Folder".

  5. Click on "New" again to create a new action within this group.

  6. Choose "Import cover from file" as the action type.

  7. In the "Format string" field, enter:

    cover.*

    This format string tells MP3tag to look for any files starting with "cover" in the folder where the audio file resides.

  8. Click "OK" to save the action.

Now, whenever you run this action on your files, MP3tag will automatically search for "cover.*" in each file's folder and import it as the cover art.

To apply this action to your files:

  1. Select the files you want to apply the action to or select all files (Ctrl + A).

  2. Go to "Actions" menu, hover over your newly created action group, and select the action you just created, "Import Cover from Folder".

  3. MP3tag will then process the selected files and import the cover art from the designated file in each folder.

This should make the process of replacing covers much easier for you, ensuring uniformity and consistency across your library.

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Thanks mate, you're a life saver!