# Export of first cover

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 18, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876 "2025-03-18T10:58:19Z")
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### Author: ![Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/roland/32/8001_2.png) [@Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Roland)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/1 "2025-03-18T10:58:19Z")

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Hey, just so you know, you can export the cover of a specific album by right-clicking on it.

At the moment, FOLDER is always suggested as the file name, which is great! I'd really love to be able to use 'COVER' as the default name, if that's ok? Do you know where I can set this?

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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: [March 18, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/2 "2025-03-18T11:00:20Z")

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See the Options Ctrl-O \> Tag Sources

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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: [March 18, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/3 "2025-03-18T11:13:57Z")

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> [@Roland](#):
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> you can export the cover of a specific album by right-clicking on it.

You mean the context menu entry "Extract cover"?

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/5/b/5b7c443ef93fc2933f1a9f7c876fdb1e8896f2fb.png)

If you want the fixed output suggestion COVER as file name for every new extracted cover, you can set it like that:

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/d/9/d9b6b2bf0c47a024799f73dcc13564dc2fc9bb4f.png)  
in the mentioned Options -\> Tag Sources setting.

From the [documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/options/tag-sources/#default-file-name-for-cover-art):

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/8/4/8403ceae9b19e5fef39015af5e1d014bd7a45b26.png)

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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: [March 18, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/4 "2025-03-18T11:24:16Z")

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BTW:  
This does not only apply to the first cover (as your thread title slightly misleadingly suggests).  
You can **Extract** every cover that you see in your album.  
Just use the navigation arrows under the coverart picture:  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/8/9/8925977bcadf9d4a1bcc2d2ee2fd2727c0ce1065.png)  
_(only visible if more than 1 image is embedded)_

The right click context menu works for every selected and visible picture.

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### Author: ![Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/roland/32/8001_2.png) [@Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Roland)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/5 "2025-03-18T12:51:03Z")

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That's it! 😉  
I had suspected it was there but always overlooked it.

Thanx. 👍🏼

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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: [April 17, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-of-first-cover/67876/6 "2025-04-17T12:52:05Z")

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