# Can cover art be downloaded as separate files?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 16, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663 "2010-08-16T16:31:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/1 "2010-08-16T16:31:36Z")
Saving downloaded covers in FLAC files takes an incredibly long time. And I don't need or want the covers embedded in the tags. I'd rather have cover.jpg files and nothing in the tags.
Can Mp3tag do this?
If not, is it an active feature request that's being considered?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/2 "2010-08-17T05:10:13Z")
This is already possible via the Tag Sources dialog and one of the cover-only web sources. In the Tag Sources dialog you can right click on the cover-art window and enable Save image to disc. This setting is remembered across sessions.
The filename for cover art can be adjusted via Options \> Tag Sources.
Kind regards
Florian
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/3 "2010-08-17T18:00:26Z")
Thanks Florian. I would never have found that. Maybe the 'Save to tag' and 'Save to disc' right-click options should also be in the Options \> Tag Sources.
What does 'Correct aspect ratio' do? I don't see anything in the Help.
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/4 "2010-08-19T02:25:16Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
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> What does 'Correct aspect ratio' do?
Anybody?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/5 "2010-08-19T03:35:39Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
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> Anybody?
A picture is worth a thousand words, so ...
... use dialog "Extended Tags" and put these example pictures as cover pictures into a test file.
... and this picture too: \>\>\> 
\<\<\<
Then use the context menu of the cover picture (mouse click right) and play with the option "Correct aspect ratio".
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/6 "2010-08-19T06:37:09Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> A picture is worth a thousand words, so ...
Seldom. If you can't explain it then you don't understand what it does.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/7 "2010-08-19T07:20:40Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
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> Seldom. If you can't explain it then you don't understand what it does.
JJ Johnson, I think I do understand the term "aspect ratio" and what Mp3tag "correct aspect ratio" means and does.
You see that I am able to create pictures which can demonstrate how "correct aspect ratio" works in Mp3tag reality.
I am convinced that you are able to describe what you see, when you switch Mp3tag's "correct aspect ratio" on and off using the example pictures.
See related forum postings:
[http://www.google.de/#q=site:community.mp3tag.de+"aspect+ratio"](http://www.google.de/#q=site:community.mp3tag.de+%22aspect+ratio%22)
See also:
> **[Aspect ratio (image)](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aspect_ratio_%28image%29)**
>
> The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height, and is expressed with two numbers separated by a colon, such as 16:9, sixteen-to-nine. For the x:y aspect ratio, the image is x units wide and y units high. Common aspect ratios are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 in cinematography, 4:3 and 16:9 in television photography, and 3:2 in still photography.
> The common film aspect ratios used in cinemas are 1.85:1 and 2.4:1. Two common videographic aspect ratios are 4:3 (1.3:1),\[a\] the universal v...
> **[Bildformat (Papierbild)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildformat_(Seitenverh%C3%A4ltnis))**
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> Die Normierung der Bildformate von Fotografien ist entstanden zum einen aus der Konfektionierung des den Fotografen gelieferten Fotopapiers und der Rationalisierung anfallender Laborarbeiten, zum anderen wurde sie gefördert durch die im 19. Jahrhundert verbreitete Verwendung von Fotoalben, in deren Fenster („Kulissen“) vom Rand her Fotokarten eingeschoben werden konnten.
> Fotokarten (bei denen der dünne Papierabzug auf einen bedruckten Karton aufgeklebt wurde), waren bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg das ...
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/8 "2010-08-19T07:25:06Z")
Still no explanation. Big help.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/9 "2010-08-19T07:35:52Z")
JJ Johnson, you can read, you can write, so try it out for yourself to find a textual description by describing what you see when you are doing it.
Begin with the smallest smiley example picture from my posting above.
How does the display change between the two states of "aspect ratio corrected" and "aspect ratio not corrected"?
Then try the red bar example picture, what do you see?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-cover-art-be-downloaded-as-separate-files/10663/10 "2025-11-12T15:13:16Z")
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