# Cover Art not displaying
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894
**Category:** Mac
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894 "2023-01-30T15:58:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/1 "2023-01-30T15:58:16Z")
I have approx 700 CDs stored on my computer and tagged with mp3tag. All CDs have cover art attached. When I play using the music app on my iPad, all the cover art is visible. When I play using my network streamer (Cambridge Steam Magic 6) 95% of the cover art is displayed but there are a few albums which do not display the cover art. I have tried wiping the cover art and re-adding it, but to no avail. All the cover art is stored as small (50kB) images. There does not appear to be anything different about the ones that do not display. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Nigel
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/2 "2023-01-30T16:20:57Z")
What kind of files are these?
Are the pictures really embedded? Check with filter
%\_covers% MISSING
Then, ideally, not file should show up.
What kind of picture (jpg, png) have you embedded?
If these are of the type jpg - are they in progressive mode? They shouldn't.
Which kind of tag version do you use? V2.3? V2.4?
Are there APE tags in the files?
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/3 "2023-01-30T17:38:33Z")
Thank you for your response.
I checked with the filter, on one of the CDs which does not show the cover art, and no files showed up.
The cover art picture is a jpeg image.
The tag is ID3v2.3. I am using mp3tag for Mac
I don't know what are APE tags. How can I tell if there are any in the files?
Thanks
Nigel
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/4 "2023-01-30T17:49:59Z")
> [@NWhitta](#):
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> I don't know what are APE tags. How can I tell if there are any in the files?
You could try another filter with
%\_tag% HAS APE
to see if there are any files with APE tags.
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/5 "2023-01-30T18:18:44Z")
Thanks again.
I tried that but no files with APE tags were identified from those I checked.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/6 "2023-01-30T18:23:19Z")
Could you supply one of the files that does not show the cover?
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/7 "2023-01-30T19:43:23Z")
I tried to attach a file which contains cover art, but the art does not show when I stream the track. However it is an mp3 file which I am not authorised to upload. Is there a way around this problem?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/8 "2023-01-30T19:47:28Z")
You could send me a PM with a link to a file hoster or just the password to a publicly visible link.
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/9 "2023-01-30T20:01:03Z")
I have sent you an email with a file attached.
Did you you receive it?
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### Author:  [@NWhitta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NWhitta)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/10 "2023-01-30T20:04:58Z")
I have just received a message telling my email was not delivered ☹
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### Author:  [@chemi\_pharm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chemi_pharm)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/11 "2025-02-05T19:29:32Z")
The issue is with the iPad or whatever player you are using. For some reason, the covers bigger than 900x900 px are not showing up on some players, even though the standard does not prevent, lets say 25mb png file as the "cover art".
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/12 "2025-02-05T20:07:44Z")
> [@chemi\_pharm](#):
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> even though the standard does not prevent, lets say 25mb png file as the "cover art"
There is a limit on most tag formats at 16MB total based on the block sizes for each field in the metadata.
> [@Cover Art limit?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-limit/59469/2):
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> From the spec for [ID3v2](https://id3.org/ID3v2Easy) "Since each frame can be 16MB and the entire tag can be 256MB you'll probably never again be in the same situation as when you tried to write a useful comment in the old ID3 being limited to 30 characters." Since the artwork is one frame of the tag, it is subject to the 16MB limit.
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### Author:  [@chemi\_pharm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chemi_pharm)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-not-displaying/59894/13 "2025-02-05T23:53:21Z")
> [@MotleyG](#):
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> There is a limit on most tag formats at 16MB total based on the block sizes for each field in the metadata.
I have found out that for some reason most proprietary players do not display cover art over 1000x1000 pixels. To be safe, I have set mine at 900x900 and every single one is shown after resizing the large cover art images.
25mb was obviously an exaggerated example on my part 🙂