afternoon,
after spending countless hours searching, can someone help me on how i can just display the cover art in the mail panel. my files are named as artist.title and on a external drive. Thank You sorry to bother you with a problem that is probably simple.
Which program should show the covers? Mail?
I could be wrong, but I think OP made a typo, and meant "main panel"; and questions on how to load cover art from an external source.
@dp19 Am I correct in assuming you wish to bulk import covers from an external source, using artist.title as the format string?
If not, some context and a concrete example would help.
you are correct and i finally figure it out thanks all.
And what did lead to your solution?
What did you figure out?
What was the cause for your initial post and what did you change so that the problem is gone?
what you suggested. also the main panel displays the jpgs but without the artist and title its blank, i'm not sure as to why i'm thinking my naming is incorrect. any suggestions?
the tag info for artist and title are missing the picture is there. so how can i automatically add the missing info from the jpg is this possible?
MP3tag does nothing more than topic the first picture file it finds and then display it in the tag panel.
What other programs do, is beyond the influence of MP3tag.
Some programs pickup external pictures if they are called folger.jpg or cover.jpg - but no guarantee about that.
For MP3tag there is no connection between arbitrary files and the currently loaded supported file.
There is no way to take the name of any other file and use it to fill the tag data.
i only use mp3tag 3.28 for mp3s and i have an action to copy the jpg so i don't why tag from a copy isn't displaying. thanks for the support i'm going recopy.
As jpg files a usually no supported file type for MP3tag I wonder how you copy external jpg files with an MP3tag internal action.
i use export to file action
format string: H:\covers%artist%.%Title% %year%
i'm coming to the conclusion that the metatag info doesn't copy into the metatag for the jpg when it's copied over. so is it possible to get the metatag from the file added to the copied jpg file automatically or can't this be done?
The export cover to file function only works for embedded covers.
Are the covers embedded or is you claim from
still valid.
If it is then the action will not export anything.
The file name that you might see in the tag panel only shows which file Mp3tag has found as first file in the current folder and which is now being displayed.
External baggage files are not handled by MP3tag (with the possible exception of lyrics files).
I'm not sure on embedded covers. i thought mine were from where i c/p from spotity. if they are embedded then why can't the metatag info from the mp3 be copied into that embedded file as well. i can't add any metatag unfo as well. if i configure the window into filename then they show up and don't with other configuration. can mp3tag have different configurations for different drives? really trying to understand all this.
TBH I don't understand what you do, what you have done, what your data looks like, what you expect.
Screenshots sometimes help, preferably those which show the data in MP3tag and the applied functions.
too many screenshot to send and as for the outcome i like to have the metatag from the mp3 appear in embedded/jpg file as well using an action to automatically do this since i have over 25,000 songs. i thought this was happening each time a added or updated song covers. i know someone out there is smart enough to figure this and an action out just not me.
I would have expected that we start with 1 screenshot showing the folder and the view in MP3tag.
But it is your problem, not mine, so you set the pace and the progress.
If you are not satisfied with the suggestions you got so far: the forum is full of threads that deal with artwork that is displayed or not and just as many hints what can be done.
So perhaps a forum search will get you closer to a solution.
wo with embeeded jpgs that from what i have read is embedded cover art, now if this is true and mp3tag processes the embedded cover art then is there a way to have a action the automatically add artist, title and year to the extended tag of a jpg and if so what's the process for doing this please?
also if embedded cover art is a jpg format inside the metatag why doesn't developers have this as a mp3tag format type?
As soon as the binary data of a cover is embedded in an audio file it looses its filename and other metadata.
Before a picture is embedded it is a file type for which any kind of metadata cannot be read or written.
The file name that you see in the tag panel is only a safe guard for you to distinguish between a really embedded picture and one outside the audio file (for which the filename is displayed).
If you want to keep the covers even when you copy files across the file system then the only safe way is to have embedded pictures.
If the pictures are not embedded, then you always have to keep the folder structure unchanged, i.e you have to copy the whole folder and not just individual files.
i kinda understand what you are saying, i simply want to have the extended tag info to display inside the jpeg (artist, title, year) so can an action create this automatically? i know format value but i don't know the string field.
