# getid3

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 25, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201 "2009-10-25T09:41:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![henniez](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f19dbf/32.png) [@henniez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/henniez)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201/1 "2009-10-25T09:41:39Z")

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I'd like to use ampache for my mp3 collection. Ampache uses the getid lib to extract tag information. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to get the cover art from the files. The strange thing is this, if I added the cover with mp3tag getid3 cannot read it. If, however, I write the cover art with easyTag it works fine.

Does anybody else experienced this and does anybody have a solution to this.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201/2 "2009-10-25T20:36:34Z")

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Did you try this?  
[/t/2785/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2785/1)

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### Author: ![henniez](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f19dbf/32.png) [@henniez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/henniez)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201/3 "2009-10-26T18:11:37Z")

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Thanks a lot. id3 2.3 UTF-16 works

so i'm using 2.3

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getid3/9201/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:53Z")

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