# Cover Art
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 29, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255 "2006-12-29T16:38:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/1 "2006-12-29T16:38:04Z")
Hi,
I'm using MP3TAG v2.37a, 30GB iPod Video, and Anapod Explorer to tag my AAC/MP4/M4A files and thought that I had album art embedded for most of my music collection.
I also created a column (%\_Cover%) to check for files which did not have Cover Art embedded
In MP3TAG tag options I have:
READ set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE
WRITE set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE2
REMOVE set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE
The problem is that the tags appear in a random fashion on the iPod, some showing the correct album art and some showing no album art. This is not even consistent as the same track may or may not show album art.
Can anyone help me here or point me somewhere which can help
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/2 "2006-12-29T17:47:01Z")
I am not exactly sure what you mean. Does Mp3tag have problems reading the covers? Does your iPod have problems reading the covers? Did Anapod Explorer have problems writing the covers?
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/3 "2006-12-29T18:46:18Z")
Apologies for lack of clarity.
Mp3Tag shows that the covers are present
Anapod shows the covers are present
iPod sometimes shows that the covers are present.
What I was really trying to do was eliminate Mp3Tag from the problem. For example, is this correct:
In MP3TAG tag options I have:
READ set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE
WRITE set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE2
REMOVE set to ID3V1, ID3V2, APE
I am not terribly good with tags and don't know whether or not, all of the Read, Write, Remove Options are valid
Hope this is clear(er)
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/4 "2006-12-29T19:07:01Z")
Well, problem seems to be with your iPod then. Your Mp3tag is set correctly (you could disable APE reading if you don't use APEv2 tags).
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/5 "2006-12-29T19:21:16Z")
Thanks Sebastian!
Believe it or not, I just took an album and stripped out all of the tags using the function on Mp3Tag and then reinstalled the tags beginning with the cover art, then the usual track etc tabs and bingo!!! everything seems to be ok.
Is this normal?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/6 "2006-12-29T20:38:42Z")
> [@auldyin](#):
>
> Thanks Sebastian!
>
> Believe it or not, I just took an album and stripped out all of the tags using the function on Mp3Tag and then reinstalled the tags beginning with the cover art, then the usual track etc tabs and bingo!!! everything seems to be ok.
> Is this normal?
>
> Cheers
Sorry, this is inconsistent!!
However I have noticed that files with extension MP4 seem to behave differently from the M4A ones.
I am lost and would appreciate any help possible
Cheers and sorry about the crap information
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/7 "2006-12-29T21:47:38Z")
I think you should rename the .mp4 files to .m4a
iTunes (so I guess iPod too) only treats m4a files correctly.
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/8 "2006-12-30T01:28:16Z")
Thanks!
Dont know how to do this.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/9 "2006-12-30T17:25:19Z")
You can use this action in Mp3tag:
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**
_Field:_ **\_FILENAME**
_Regular expression:_ **.mp4$**
_Replace matches with:_ **.m4a**
[] case-sensitive comparison
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### Author:  [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/10 "2006-12-31T12:36:14Z")
Thanks dano....worked a treat!!
Happy New Year to all!
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Poromenos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Poromenos)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/11 "2007-01-16T20:12:25Z")
I have been trying all day to get my iPod to recognize the covers mp3tag sets, but to no avail. It works when I do it through iTunes, but not through mp3tag, the iPod behaves as if there is no cover art in the files. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
I would **really** prefer to use mp3tag for this, because it is far superior to any other program, it makes my life **vastly** easier. Any ideas on how I can make my iPod show artwork? ☹
It's a 5.5G 80 GB iPod video, by the way.
Edit: The files are mp3s.
Hmm, could it be because mp3tag does not resize the cover art?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/12 "2007-01-16T20:21:59Z")
You can use Mp3tag to embed covers, but you must use iTunes or other ipod-sync software to transfer the files to the ipod.
Ipod reads the tags from its database and not from the files.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art/4255/13 "2026-02-09T12:20:04Z")