# Exporting files and having album art exported into the CSV
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 23, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771 "2023-01-23T15:41:27Z")
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### Author:  [@mbpt1984](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbpt1984)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/1 "2023-01-23T15:41:27Z")
Hi,
i was wondering, is there a way of exporting the data of the songs but also having the cover art exported into the CSV file as well. If not could this be added into an upcoming version?
many thanks
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/2 "2023-01-23T15:49:40Z")
> [@mbpt1984](#):
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> into the CSV file
Do you know any program that imports complex binary data (=picture) from a csv (plain text) file?
Please see also
> **[Comma-separated values](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values)**
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> Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values. A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, where each line of the file typically represents one data record. Each record consists of the same number of fields, and these are separated by commas in the CSV file. If the field delimiter itself may appear within a field, fields can be surrounded with quotation marks.
> The CSV file format is one type of delimiter-separated file format. Delimit...
which states that this is a simple text format file. IMHO that excludes binary objects like pictures.
You could export the picture to the file system, though, and save the path to the picture file in the csv-file.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/3 "2023-01-23T16:55:47Z")
> [@mbpt1984](#):
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> exporting the data of the songs but also having the cover art exported into the CSV file as well
Why would you do that?
Every other tagging software can directly read, modify or write your existing metadata in your songs.
Into which software would you import such a CSV file and what do you want to achieve?
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### Author:  [@mbpt1984](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbpt1984)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/4 "2023-01-24T01:07:20Z")
HI,
i think you misunderstood, what i was getting at. The whole idea to export a playlist is to create a catalog, and i was simply just asking is there a way to eport the cover art into the CSV file to make it look more of a catalog. with a collection of over 145k songs im not going to sit there and do it one by one. if you have other suggestions i would be happy to hear, i do appreacite your response
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### Author:  [@mbpt1984](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbpt1984)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/5 "2023-01-24T01:08:38Z")
Thank you for this information, and thnk you for your reply. The premise i asked was to create a catalog of my music which stands at 145k songs, i just wondered if there was a way to export with the cover art attached
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/6 "2023-01-24T01:19:50Z")
This can’t be done with the csv file format. It is the most simple form of a document and images are simply not supported.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/7 "2023-01-24T06:32:45Z")
> [@mbpt1984](#):
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> The premise i asked was to create a catalog of my music
OK - and which program should then display the catalog and the images in the catalog?
I think you have to investigate how that import is possible.
But as stated now 3 times in this thread: a csv-file will not serve the purpose if you insist that the picture should be embedded in the csv-file.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/8 "2023-01-24T06:35:45Z")
> [@mbpt1984](#):
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> he premise i asked was to create a catalog of my music which stands at 145k songs, i just wondered if there was a way to export with the cover art attached
Did you have a look at the
> [@Export Configuration Archive](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-configuration-archive/1495):
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> This is the official list of export configurations submitted by users of Mp3tag. Please note, that some of them are in german, others are in english. Feel free to post about your creative works with Mp3tag's export feature in the [Export discussion subforum](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/development/export) slight_smile How do I install export configurations? The \*.mte files must be copied/extracted to the corresponding [profile folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2748/1) %appdata%\Mp3tag\export Wie installiere ich Export-Konfigurationen? (german) Die \*.mte Dateien müssen in das…
There are a lot of export configurations, some of them are exporting the covers too and some of them even have a online preview so you don't have to install all to see how the result looks like.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-files-and-having-album-art-exported-into-the-csv/59771/9 "2023-01-26T07:00:32Z")
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