# Extracting cover art.

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590 "2007-03-10T15:02:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jgoodman)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590/1 "2007-03-10T15:02:58Z")

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Is there a simple way to extract the album art to a file. I want to create a poster with all of my album art. I was told MP3TAG could do this.

I have not used MP3TAG so detailed explinations would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590/2 "2007-03-10T15:47:20Z")

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Just press Alt+5 to create an action or Ctrl+Alt+5 for a quick action and choose "Export cover to file"

Enter a path or relative filename where you want the covers to be stored.  
Random examples:  
folder  
%album%  
c:\Covers\%artist%-%album%

The extension is created automatically from the picture type.

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### Author: ![jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jgoodman)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590/3 "2007-03-10T16:13:27Z")

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Sounds great but there is no option to "Export cover to file". Any ideas?

I only have the following options:  
Case conversion  
CD-R  
Standard

Jerome.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590/4 "2007-03-10T16:20:12Z")

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You must create a new action. Just click ![:mt_new:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/ec5caa1b5d6c43fd0fe30efd3515a713a18c5105.png ":mt\_new:") enter a name and then you can choose.

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### Author: ![jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jgoodman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jgoodman)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-cover-art/4590/5 "2007-03-12T13:16:42Z")

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Thanks, worked like a charm. Except I had some ":" in my albumn names which were translated into a "-" so they did not get processed, I changed the albumn names and regenerated the file names and all was well.

Jerome.