# Difference between copy/past and add coverart as jpg?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 14, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142 "2017-07-14T07:30:35Z")
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### Author:  [@deesar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/deesar)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142/1 "2017-07-14T07:30:35Z")
Hi,
does anyone know the difference between copy/paste (coverart by browser from beatport) to
mp3 tag as coverart, and adding the exact same cover, downloaded from beatport as jpg?
Traktor Pro refuses to show coverart, using the method "adding the cover, downloaded from
beatport as jpg" but shows coverart, using the method "copy/paste coverart by browser"
So batch-downloading covers per Tool (DisCoverArt) @ Google and addin them per Action
save jpgs as frontcover to the TAG does not work, as Traktor Pro don`t show the coverart.
Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142/2 "2017-07-14T08:09:53Z")
> [@DeeSaR](#):
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know the difference between copy/paste (coverart by browser from beatport) to
> mp3 tag as coverart, and adding the exact same cover, downloaded from beatport as jpg?
Have a look here :
[Cover Art & filesize](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16012/3)
> [@](#):
>
> Mp3tag supports two methods for embedding cover art into the tag data area of a media file:
>
> 1. by embedding the physical image file directly from the disk;
> 2. by Windows Clipboard.
>
> In case 1 the image file will be embedded "as is".
> That means, an embedded image file with filesize of 25 KB enlarges the filesize of the media file by about 25 KB.
>
> In case 2 the image file will be transported via the Windows Clipboard.
> That means, at first a JPG compressed image file will be decompressed into a "Device-Independent Bitmap" (DIB), for example, a 500x500 24bit image's data size grows from compressed 25 KB to uncompressed 732 KB.
>
> Afterwards when embedding from the Windows Clipboard into the media file, the bitmap image data will be compressed into the given JPG compressed format.
> However, the initial compression factor get lost.
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142/3 "2017-07-14T09:22:26Z")
Traktor also only supports up to 1mb for cover art.
I'll be releasing search for coverart in my beatport scripts soon I hope.
You can subscribe to the thread here to get a notification when that happens.
[LINK](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/12568/1).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/difference-between-copy-past-and-add-coverart-as-jpg/19142/4 "2026-02-09T12:26:53Z")