# Coverart Issue For Car Audio Player **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/coverart-issue-for-car-audio-player/69262 **Category:** Support **Created:** [July 27, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/coverart-issue-for-car-audio-player/69262 "2025-07-27T07:27:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ryerman/32/5285_2.png) [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman) #### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/coverart-issue-for-car-audio-player/69262/4 "2025-07-27T15:12:54Z")
> [@schmidtp](#): > > So I guess my question is - What is the difference in the way MP3tag handles embedding images from online to offline cover art? As @ohrenkino says: none. Maybe the issue is that some images use encoding that the player cannot handle. Maybe the question should be "What is the difference in the way the car audio player handles embedded images, depending on their encoding. > [@Cover Art from Discogs doesn't show in Pioneer car stereo](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-from-discogs-doesnt-show-in-pioneer-car-stereo/46777/4): > > The "bad" picture has been saved as "progressive" picture with several cycles to get its final sharpness. The "good" picture has the property "baseline" so it is displayed in one go. I wonder how you opened and resaved it - with a graphics editor? Then it could be that the editor had the setting to save the file as baseline file. Apparently, the player can only cope with baseline files. See also here: or even here: (the supplied files had both RGB, no CMYK) > [@Cover -\> JPG -\> Show progressive or standard encoding](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-jpg-show-progressive-or-standard-encoding/42650): > > Hi, Some multimedia players have (lazzy programmed) firmware, and don't recognize embedded covers that are saved with "progressive encoding", despite the image dimensions or size. For exmple, Audi MMS recognized both encodings until 2016.... from 2017 they "enhance" its firmware, removing the feature of read progressive encoding covers It would be great if MP3Tag coul display in a column, the format of the cover of each file... Greetings --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/coverart-issue-for-car-audio-player/69262)._