# Filter by "No Cover Art"?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 21, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796 "2006-09-21T16:58:46Z")
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### Author: ![topdownjimmy](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/topdownjimmy/32/6236_2.png) [@topdownjimmy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/topdownjimmy)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796/1 "2006-09-21T16:58:46Z")

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Is it possible to filter a group of files to show only ones that are missing cover art?

Thanks 🙂

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796/2 "2006-09-21T17:23:56Z")

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You can create a new column "Cover" via View \> Columns..., set its value to %\_covers% and sort by this column to group the files without cover art.

Best regards,  
Florian

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### Author: ![dsnunez](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dsnunez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dsnunez)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796/3 "2014-11-02T01:47:59Z")

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I know this is a pretty old topic, but I was searching for a way to _filter_ rather than just _sorting_ by "no cover art" and I did not find anything like that posted online.

What I did was using the filter

> [@](#):
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> %\_covers% IS ""

It shows on screen only the songs that have no cover art.  
It has to be an empty string on \_covers if you are looking for no covers, it would not work with a 0.

Regards,  
Daniela

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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: [November 2, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796/4 "2014-11-02T06:54:19Z")

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> [@Dani Núñez](#):
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> I know this is a pretty old topic, but I was searching for a way to _filter_ rather than just _sorting_ by "no cover art" and I did not find anything like that posted online....

If you have a look at the online help:  
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter)  
There is exactly this example for filtering files without cover.

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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: [November 10, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-by-no-cover-art/3796/5 "2025-11-10T11:20:06Z")

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