# Edits using audacity lose the art

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 10, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473 "2021-12-10T15:15:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![youngprmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@youngprmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/youngprmp3)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473/1 "2021-12-10T15:15:38Z")

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Recently noticed when using audacity to edit an mp3 file, after making the edits and exporting the file to replace the existing file, the album art or cover is lost. The art was in the file prior to moving to audacity for editing.  
Love your program

thanks

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473/2 "2021-12-10T15:32:49Z")

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This seems to be a known problem/issue with Audacity:

Source: [Wrong Cover Art - Windows - Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=111242#p396205) (Thu May 28, 2020 7:32 pm)

> Audacity does not support cover art, s **o any audio files exported from Audacity are guaranteed to not have embedded artwork.**

Source: [Wrong Cover Art - Windows - Audacity Forum](https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=111242#p396211) (Thu May 28, 2020 7:52 pm)

> **The Metadata Editor in Audacity does not show a cover art field, because Audacity does not support cover art**. There's a long-standing feature request for Audacity to embed artwork, but so far it doesn't, and **there are no immediate plans to embed images in exported files**.

I don't see anything that Mp3tag could do in this matter in any way.

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**Author:** ![youngprmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@youngprmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/youngprmp3)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473/3 "2021-12-10T16:59:30Z")

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OK thanks for the response, fortunately, MP3Tag makes it easy to fix.

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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:** [January 9, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edits-using-audacity-lose-the-art/55473/4 "2022-01-09T16:59:53Z")

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