# \[Feature Request\] Enable 'add cover from url' option
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 28, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099 "2022-01-28T11:39:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/1 "2022-01-28T11:39:21Z")
This way, I won't need to download the images to my computer.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/2 "2022-01-28T11:40:17Z")
You can already drag & drop your images from your online source to the tag panel inside Mp3tag.
Whether you do this for a single file or several selected files is up to you.
Don't forget to save CTRL + S this change.
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/3 "2022-01-28T11:47:34Z")
Damn, I feel so annoyed I didn't know this before.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/4 "2022-01-28T11:54:14Z")
If you want to resize your dropped cover (or change its format) you can use an action called "[Adjust cover](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adjust-cover-how-where/47682/4)" or you can right click on your cover, click on "Adjust cover" and use the dialog box:
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/5 "2022-01-28T15:36:41Z")
(Sorry for for undoing Solution)
On second thought, I think it would be convenient if there was an option like "paste cover from url" because drag & drop is kind of cumbersome.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/6 "2022-01-28T15:53:00Z")
Could you elaborate how a "add cover from url" is less cumbersome than drag&drop?
Actually, I don't understand how "add cover from url" should work and how then it is not necessary
> [@Emdosis](#):
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> to download the images to my computer
when they are saved in the files?
Also, see this thread:
> [@Cover art by URL (not just local file)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-by-url-not-just-local-file/14816):
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> As I'm new to MP3TAG, this feature may already be implemented, and I am merely revealing my ignorance of the interface, however it is not immediately obvious if it is possible to retrieve covers by URL, a useful feature in Clementine (though clementine's file update operations are more opaque and therefore less useful). What I'd like to do is be able to google image search for album art (for esoteric items, far more useful than amazon or other dedicated sources as such art is often only curated…
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/7 "2022-01-28T16:08:49Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Could you elaborate how a "add cover from url" is less cumbersome than drag&drop?
> Actually, I don't understand how "add cover from url" should work and how then it is not necessary
It's less cumbersome cause all you need to do is copy the url (meaning (right) click--\>copy) and then right click the mp3tag-album-art-rectangle-thing and right click--\>paste. Whereas "drag & drop" requires you to maneuver both windows around, have them both visible, and "drag & drop" it, not always so convenient...
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Also, see this thread:
Yes, that's the same thing I'm asking. I didn't see it when I did a search before posting, nor when I was writing the title. Sorry.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/8 "2022-01-28T16:12:31Z")
> [@Emdosis](#):
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> Whereas "drag & drop" requires you to maneuver both windows around, have them both visible, and "drag & drop" it,
You don't have them both to be visible. As with all other window programs, you can start the drag process wherever you want and keep the left mouse button pressed. Then press ALT + TAB to switch to your target program (like Mp3tag) then drop your image into your target. That takes less then a second and don't need any additional copy & paste.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/9 "2022-01-28T16:12:41Z")
> [@Emdosis](#):
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> It's less cumbersome cause all you need to do is copy the url (meaning (right) click--\>copy) and then right click the mp3tag-album-art-rectangle-thing and right click--\>paste
Did you ever right-click on the cover rectangle in the tag panel?
There is a function called "Paste cover from clipboard".
So it the already existing function is even better as you don't have to look for the URL and paste it, you can directly paste the copied picture ...
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/10 "2022-01-29T18:10:28Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> You don't have them both to be visible. As with all other window programs, you can start the drag process wherever you want and keep the left mouse button pressed. Then press ALT + TAB to switch to your target program (like Mp3tag) then drop your image into your target. That takes less then a second and don't need any additional copy & paste.
Actually I just realized it's faster to hover over the minimized mp3tag and have it expand that way. Only issue is if you hover over the wrong icon by mistake you end up expanding the wrong application...
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> There is a function called "Paste cover from clipboard".
> So it the already existing function is even better as you don't have to look for the URL and paste it, you can directly paste the copied picture ...
Copy/pasting enlarges the file by 2 sometimes even 3 times the size so no thanks.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/11 "2022-01-30T09:24:47Z")
> [@Emdosis](#):
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> Copy/pasting enlarges the file by 2 sometimes even 3 times the size so no thanks.
Could you check the original format of the file that you copy and paste and esp. which MP3tag version you use?
As here is a post that says something different:
> [@Cover copy/paste increases cover size](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-copy-paste-increases-cover-size/12474/4):
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> I've changed the copy-paste behavior with [Mp3tag v2.95a](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455). Besides the DIB version that is used to create the JPEG, Mp3tag now also copies the actual image data to the clipboard and prefers that when pasting internally.
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/12 "2022-01-31T05:15:17Z")
That's only when you copy covers within mp3tag itself. Copy an image from anywhere else and you're copying a bitmap file.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 7:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/13 "2022-01-31T07:38:57Z")
I just did the following:
Select a file.
Go to a web page with a picture - it is a jpg file.
D&D the file into the tag panel -\> `600*539, 128KB`
Save the file to folder first, then add with "Add picture" -\> `600*539, 128KB`
Copy the file on the web page and paste it with the tag panel function "Paste from clipboard" -\> `600*539, 128KB`
This does not look like this
> [@Emdosis](#):
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> enlarges the file by 2 sometimes even 3 times the size
So I don't know what you are doing.
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/14 "2022-01-31T10:56:07Z")
What browser are you using?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/15 "2022-01-31T12:04:28Z")
I use Firefox as browser.
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### Author:  [@Emdosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Emdosis)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-enable-add-cover-from-url-option/56099/16 "2022-02-01T01:31:33Z")
Well then maybe it depends on how the jpeg is optimized ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯