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.

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 thi…

The export cover to file function only works for embedded covers. Are the covers embedded or is you claim from [image] Moving covers to network drive with an action Support Good Morning, i having a problem with moving my covers to a network drive. my action i…

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 w…

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 s…

[image] dp19: too many screenshot to send 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 …

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? a…

[image] dp19: 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 f…

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.

MP3tag does not edit metadata in jpg files, like EXIF or IPTC If you want to add a description in MP3tag, then the action Set cover properties only allows a string but not format string - which means that you cannot use any field variables. This information would not be added to the picture but on…

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You can export the embedded picture to a file an use a format string to create the filename.
But for that the picture has to be embedded.
It is a pity that you never answered