# Find albums (or folders) without cover.jpg files?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 5, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660 "2011-11-05T15:56:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660/1 "2011-11-05T15:56:09Z")
Is there any way in Mp3tag to generate a list of albums or folders or even files that don't have an associated cover.jpg file? I don't use embedded artwork at all.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660/2 "2011-11-05T16:23:30Z")
You could use the export tool to create a cmd file that checks the selected folders, creates and loads a playlist with the folders that don't have a cover.
Or a similar approach, an external cmd file:
[/t/11448/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11448/1)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660/3 "2011-11-05T18:33:25Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
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> Is there any way in Mp3tag to generate a list of albums or folders or even files that don't have an associated cover.jpg file? I don't use embedded artwork at all.
This would collide a little with your approach not to use embedded artwork ... but:
If you dared to import covers (with an action and wildcards) into your files and then filtered for %\_covers% IS "" then you would see all the files that do not have a cover.
After you have found that out, you could delete all covers from the files again ...
I admit that this create a lot of harddisk i/o but still ... I could not think of anything else from within mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660/4 "2011-11-05T18:59:51Z")
Thanks guys. I took a little VBScript that I wrote to give me library stats - it counts things like albums, tracks, files, folders and bytes. It was easy to modify it to create a script that lists folders that are missing cover art.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-albums-or-folders-without-cover-jpg-files/12660/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:25Z")