# Cover art directory issue
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035 "2026-04-10T13:46:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bjohnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bjohnson)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/1 "2026-04-10T13:46:50Z")
I’m having an issue when I add a new cover to a song, the dialog to locate the image file does not start in the “Cover art directory” as I believe it used to do.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/2 "2026-04-10T14:11:32Z")
Please check the options what you have set for the coverart directory:
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### Author:  [@bjohnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bjohnson)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/3 "2026-04-10T14:27:20Z")
Currently it is set to “C:\_\_Album Covers [Master]\” however when I right click and “add cover”, it starts in “H:\Downloader\_\_Untagged”. This directory is the location defined as “Favorite directory” however if I changed my “Favorite directory” to my album diretory, it still opens in “H:\Downloader\_\_Untagged” (probably using current directory).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/4 "2026-04-10T14:43:07Z")
I just reset the folder in "Cover art directory" to different folders and every time I try to add a picture, the dialogue opens in the specified folder.
Could it be that the folder you have set, does not exist?
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### Author:  [@bjohnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bjohnson)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/5 "2026-04-10T15:56:12Z")
The directory exists and named correctly, I’m sure of that. I did however change the directory to another existing directory and it worked. Then I switched it back to the directory where my images are and it failed again. Following this, I changed the name of the directory to remove the ending “ [Master]” and it worked. I switched it back to the original name and it failed again. It just doesn’t like that part of the name for some reason.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/6 "2026-04-10T15:58:48Z")
Can you try `'['Master']'` instead of `[Master]`?
See [Characters with Special Functionality](https://docs.mp3tag.de/format/#characters-with-special-functionality) for an explanation. The directory name can also contain placeholders, so some characters need special treatment.
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### Author:  [@bjohnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bjohnson)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/7 "2026-04-10T16:04:40Z")
That worked! Additionally, I tried several adjustments to the directory name to realize if I remove just the last character, the ‘]’, it works fine. It only fails when the last character is ‘]’.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-directory-issue/71035/8 "2026-04-17T16:05:14Z")
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