# Cover extraction

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-extraction/18229>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 11, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-extraction/18229 "2016-09-11T16:24:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vorticity](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vorticity](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vorticity)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-extraction/18229/1 "2016-09-11T16:24:39Z")

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Dear all,

thanks to mp3tag ALL my mp3 are perfectly tagged - and mp3tag is perfect to do so.

Now I want to extract all covers of my mp3 files and name them with the title (or filename)  
Example:

cover of

Brahms\_op068\_Sinfonie\_N°1\_c\_2\_Andante\_sostenuto.mp3

should be extracted and named to

Brahms\_op068\_Sinfonie\_N°1\_c\_2\_Andante\_sostenuto.jpg

Why ?  
I want to browse visually through my covers as through a disk-collection ...

Of course I do not need 4 covers for a 4 movement symphony, but I can help myself later...

With my ROCK collection it was easy:  
In each directory (=Album) was a file named folder.jpg and this had been renamed by batch to  
Album.jpg. Done.

Excellent, as I wanted. But I do not have these extracted covers in CLASSIC... ;-(

I am talking about 70.000 Classic tracks, so no hand-extracting, please.

Hope this is possible - I am almost sure it is !

Thanks in advance, Bernd.

PS: Here is my collection I am talking about:

[http://www.vorticity.de/mp3/alphaall.htm](http://www.vorticity.de/mp3/alphaall.htm)

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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:** [September 11, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-extraction/18229/2 "2016-09-11T16:42:08Z")

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> [@vorticity](#):
>
> ...  
> Now I want to extract all covers of my mp3 files and name them with the title (or filename)  
> Example:  
> cover of  
> Brahms\_op068\_Sinfonie\_N°1\_c\_2\_Andante\_sostenuto.mp3  
> should be extracted and named to  
> Brahms\_op068\_Sinfonie\_N°1\_c\_2\_Andante\_sostenuto.jpg  
> ...

There is an action for that:  
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/export-cover](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/export-cover)

as format string for the filename enter:  
%\_filename%.jpg  
this exports the cover from each file and creates a jpg files with the filename of the mp3 file but a different extentsion.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-extraction/18229/3 "2026-02-09T12:26:24Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC