# Batch add/change cover to mp3
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257 "2020-12-18T20:44:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/1 "2020-12-18T20:44:07Z")
Is it possible to add or change cover for multiple files, without changing ID3 tag?
With some options, like:
- add cover if missing only
- always replace cover
Conditions, like:
- prefer single covers (exclude names like album, best of, greatest, hits)
- prefer album covers (use album name)
Perhaps also more conditions for image size, dimensions...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/2 "2020-12-18T20:52:37Z")
> [@Dreamer](#):
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> add cover if missing only
See the filter with %\_covers% MISSING
> [@Dreamer](#):
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> always replace cover
See the action "Import cover from file".
MP3tag searches covers with web source scripts on album base for one album.
For other functions see other programs like albumartdownloader
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/3 "2020-12-18T20:58:16Z")
Hm.. OK, thanks, but if MP3TAG can download and add cover, why I have to use another program, just some option or additional condition could be added.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/4 "2020-12-18T21:00:45Z")
I don't think that the "why" question will lead us any further at this point.
That is the way it is currently implemented.
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/5 "2020-12-18T21:15:17Z")
I don't think "use another program" is a solution either.
It is a suggestion, it's not a completely new feature request, just an improvement to existing feature.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/6 "2020-12-18T21:20:22Z")
Your idea is not new, see e.g. this thread from 2010:
> [@Batch adding of Album Covers](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-adding-of-album-covers/10265):
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> First of all thank you for this great program. I was looking for its features in many different programs but mp3tag has them all! [:w00t:] However I have 3 questions: I want to select multiple songs from different albums and have their covers fetched from amazon and added to the tags. Of course there should be a verification for each album. Is it possible or do I have to manually select the songs from each different album? 2)Is the same thing possible but for extracting the covers for each …
and it has not yet been implemented.
So for the time being you have to use the third party program for the missing functions.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-add-change-cover-to-mp3/51257/7 "2026-02-09T12:28:59Z")