# FLAC tags missing in W10 after adding album art
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [June 18, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554 "2021-06-18T19:58:09Z")
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### Author:  [@GreenGhost21](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GreenGhost21)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/1 "2021-06-18T19:58:09Z")
When I export the tags of FLAC files after adding album art, the tags no longer show up in the Windows 10 File Explorer's "Details" view.
Possibly related, Spotify refuses to read the same files after adding album art via MP3Tag.
Is there perhaps something I'm doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/2 "2021-06-18T20:04:14Z")
see e.g. here:
> [@\[X\] Blank FLAC fields in Windows 10 after 'save'](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-blank-flac-fields-in-windows-10-after-save/19421):
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> Status I confirm this bug also happens using mp3tag 2.84c. Initially I thought this is a Microsoft bug, but now I tend to think it is caused by mp3tag. Environment: Windows 10 Pro v1703 OS Build 15063.608 Persistence/Reproducible This error situation is persistent, even after a PC reboot. The problem is easily reproducible given specific music files and a step-by-step procedure. The occurance is rare and typically I find one track in 20 CDs that has this problem. One can make a change to…
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### Author:  [@GreenGhost21](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GreenGhost21)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/3 "2021-06-22T21:29:07Z")
I'm confused. Are you offering a solution in the thread linked within the thread you just referenced (cutting/pasting tags, which didn't work), or simply saying "This is a Windows bug, it can't be fixed?"
Either way, there's still the issue of Spotify refusing to play any modified songs, which neither the topic you linked nor the one linked within that topic even mentioned.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/4 "2021-06-23T04:25:27Z")
> [@GreenGhost21](#):
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> saying "This is a Windows bug, it can't be fixed?"
Yes, that may be one explanation for the observed behaviour.
In respect to other players: I honestly don't know whether similar restrictions apply. You could test the files with other players like e.g. Foobar2000 and see if you are still not satisfied with the files after tagging.
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### Author:  [@phw](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phw)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/5 "2021-06-30T06:41:28Z")
@Florian We also had this issue in Picard. It indeed seems to be that Windows only looks at the first portion of the file to read the tags, if it does not find them there it does not display tags. The solution I went for with Picard is to ensure that the metadata block is always written before the picture block. That might be something that could be handled by MP3Tag as well.
See [https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1630](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1630) for details.
Just to be clear: This is a Windows bug, not a bug in MP3Tag or any other tagger. But it is possible to write the tags in a way that circumvents the issue.
Also just to emphasize how weird Windows can be I quote myself from the ticket:
> Another interesting fun fact: Even if the Explorer is unable to display such metadata, it will cleanly write the data if you edit it in the details view. Explorer itself is afterwards still unable to read the data it just wrote, but other tools (e.g. Picard) will correctly display it. Windows is strange.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/6 "2021-06-30T18:51:50Z")
@phw Many thanks for pointing! I was already doing this for new tags, but didn't reorder the metadata blocks for files with existing metadata.
Starting with [Mp3tag v3.07b](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455), the VorbisComment metadata block is now always written before the Picture metadata block.
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### Author:  [@mista\_j](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mista_j)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/7 "2023-12-27T16:26:26Z")
I'm Using: V3.23C on Windows 11 & I've recently run into this same issue, I was upgrading cover art & now I have files whose tags are no longer readable in windows but I can see all the tags in MP3tag & on my android devices as per usual. I figured this may be due to some cover files just being massive in physical size (over 3-4mb) So i tried the adjust cover action to get smaller cover file size but this does not solve the issue.
Did I break something?
Is there a fix?
Or is this just a windows error and I should just solemnly look out my window & deeply sigh reminiscing about the times before, when this wasn't my problem.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/8 "2023-12-27T16:30:51Z")
> [@mista\_j](#):
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> Is there a fix?
You could try this workaround:
> [@Why does certain artwork break Windows Explorer Metadata?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-does-certain-artwork-break-windows-explorer-metadata/59995/4):
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> The example file has a really large embedded picture, it's 3MB which breaks Windows Explorer. If you remove it or resize it from within Mp3tag (e.g., via Adjust Cover), the preoccupied space is still left as padding (which is reserved space for future changes). Unfortunately, it might be still too large for Explorer to handle. Before you ask: removal of padding (or at least resizing it to something that makes sense) is on my internal list of things to improve for Mp3tag. Until then, you can cr…
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### Author:  [@mista\_j](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mista_j)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/9 "2023-12-27T17:34:14Z")
Sounds Good, Thank You so much
For future reference. Do we know what the breaking point for windows explorer Is so that i can avoid embedding art that i know will be problematic?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/10 "2023-12-27T17:45:02Z")
From the above linked topic:
> it's 3MB which breaks Windows Explorer.
It is not yet known (AFAIK) which cover art size exactly (in Kilobytes) is problematic.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-tags-missing-in-w10-after-adding-album-art/53554/11 "2024-01-26T17:46:01Z")
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