# Bulk remove cover description
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 17, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845 "2023-08-17T16:43:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@MrMix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MrMix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/1 "2023-08-17T16:43:44Z")
Hello,
I have more than 500 cover descriptions to be removed.
Is there a way to remove them not one by one ?
Thank you for the help
Regards
MM
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/2 "2023-08-17T17:43:25Z")
Here is some info that should help.
> [@Can't remove cover descriptions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-remove-cover-descriptions/46437):
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> It is not possible to remove the cover description from multiple files. Setting the description works fine. Steps to reproduce: Select multiple files, "Cover varies" is shown next to the cover. Choose "Set cover description" --\> The field is empty, pressing OK and Save does not save an empty description. Entering a text will save this to all covers. There also seams no variable like %\_coversdescription% to do this via script.
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### Author:  [@MrMix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MrMix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/3 "2023-08-17T19:28:23Z")
Thanks for the link.
I could solve it with a work around. Instead of entering a text I just press the space bar.
It got it as a character.
MM
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 6:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/4 "2023-08-18T06:09:37Z")
> [@MrMix](#):
>
> Instead of entering a text I just press the space bar.
I don't understand why you enter a **space**. So you won't delete the cover-description but instead set a new cover-description containing a white space that you only cannot see.
Mark several files, right click on the cover and select "Set cover description", **delete** the shown content, press o.k. and save.
You can also do it with an action of the type "Set cover properties".
> **[Set Cover Properties – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/set-cover-properties/)**
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> Documentation on the Set Cover Properties action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@MrMix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MrMix)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 6:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/5 "2023-08-18T06:54:44Z")
because it doesn't work. If you make a multiple selection the shown field is empty and you can not delete something empty.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/6 "2023-08-18T07:43:53Z")
I can partially reproduce the behaviour.
If you select two or more different files with different cover descriptions you can right click on the empty cover placeholder (usually in the lower left corner of Mp3tag).
(Or you can press the menu Edit -\> Cover -\> Set cover description.)
In the context menu press
**Set cover description**
Then enter some random text like
`blabla`
into the description text box.
Then - this is crucial - delete this `blabla` immediately to get an empty description field.
Then press the OK-Button.
The descriptions are gone for all selected files.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 7:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/7 "2023-08-18T07:55:12Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> If you select two or more different files with different cover descriptions
... and different covers. Files with the same cover will show the cover-description of the first marked file.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/8 "2023-08-18T08:02:56Z")
You are right.
It is not enough to just press OK on the cover description box.
You have to **actively delete its content** first.
This is true even if you can't see any text in the text box.
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### Author:  [@MrMix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MrMix)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/9 "2023-08-18T08:08:14Z")
That's even better than my solution. No empty space in the description. 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-remove-cover-description/61845/10 "2023-09-17T08:08:27Z")
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