# Cover art display on external drive

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-display-on-external-drive/71907
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 3, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-display-on-external-drive/71907 "2026-10-03T20:16:52Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-display-on-external-drive/71907/4 "2026-10-04T07:06:08Z")

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If this is related to this problem:

> [@Moving covers to network drive with an action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-covers-to-network-drive-with-an-action/66806):
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> Good Morning, i having a problem with moving my covers to a network drive. my action is format value field \_directory string \mh\y my problem is that i don't know what i need to put after \mh\y to only move the cover, i now when i do this action it's oullung the mp3 file itself. so can someone help with to comman i need to just pull the jpg. file? Thank You DP

then the answers are still the same: covers have to be embedded or, if the files are all external files, untick the option

 ![grafik](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/5/2/52248056aff250f474924a8411a33a4ad7d8acc3.png)  
`Don't display first image from the directory as cover art`

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