# Feature request: mass resize cover art pictures
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 23, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675 "2012-07-23T06:00:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@alextorex](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alextorex)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/1 "2012-07-23T06:00:41Z")
Hello,
I would need this feature. Many images embedded in mp3 file are big and takes precious space from my mp3 player storage.
I need to be able to reduce the size of cover art pictures to a specified resolution.
If I extract each picture and re-size in photo editor then put back in mp3 file it takes forever for a big collection.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/2 "2012-07-23T06:27:48Z")
see
[Features you should definitely consider...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13518/1)
or
[Batch Album Art Resizing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/12452/3)
or
[Feature Suggestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11649/1)
in short: you are stuck with the need to emply an external tool.
But it should be easy to export the existing cover files (there is an action for that),
Resize them with an appropriate tool like gimp
reimport the files (there is an action for that).
In general: how often do you modify the size of cover art for a huge amount of files? I would say that this happens once in a lifetime of a file: then, when you tag it to include it in your collection.
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### Author:  [@alextorex](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alextorex)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/3 "2012-07-23T12:15:12Z")
I need at least a way to mass extract the covers and then mass import them.
Now the Extract cover is disabled if I select multiple items.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/4 "2012-07-23T14:01:10Z")
You can use the **Actions** to mass extract and import covers.
Or try this [program](http://hcware.t15.org/mp3art/).
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### Author:  [@Sn1p3r31173](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sn1p3r31173)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/5 "2021-09-01T01:18:35Z")
1.Select the files with covers and export them to a defined folder with their filenames.
2.Import covers for mp3 files from folder according to their filenames.
[Import Lyrics And Cover#Import Cover from its Folder.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/short-url/9YpxHzVYsgcTqa7HXBj7zb7Dx3W.mta) (359 Bytes)
[Export Cover And Lyrics#Export Cover To Folder.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/short-url/1vUoK7WhjnfYypCEfK1yzJeTkwX.mta) (72 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/6 "2021-09-01T04:40:52Z")
You dug up a topic from 9 years ago - and although the description of the cover export and import is OK, the solution for the topic has changed.
In the meantime 2 actions have been added that deal with pictures:
[Adjust cover](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/adjust-cover) which changes the dimensions and the mime type
and
[Set cover properties](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/set-cover-properties) which sets the cover type and possibly a description.
Both was not possible 9 years ago.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/7 "2021-09-03T11:59:38Z")
6 posts were split to a new topic: [Add support for animated GIF covers](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-support-for-animated-gif-covers/54265)
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-mass-resize-cover-art-pictures/13675/8 "2021-09-03T12:00:23Z")