# How to Add Cover Art - please get me started
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924 "2020-08-16T17:25:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/1 "2020-08-16T17:25:48Z")
If i select an mp3 track which does not have cover art, then click on 'Tag Sources' and select MusicBrainz then MusicBrainz correctly identifies my album. A form then pops up showing my file path and asking for Title, Album etc. If I click OK then nothing happens - I see no cover art.
I have searched the help topics but to no avail. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/2 "2020-08-16T17:40:17Z")
Have a look at Tag Sources\>Cover Art\> ...
(Script of your choice)
Perhaps you also have to select the saving options in the Utils button menu of the web source findings dialogue.
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/3 "2020-08-17T08:32:27Z")
Thanks Ohrenkino.
I select the track for which I want a cover, then go to Tag Sources\>Cover Art\>MusicBrainz and select the best match MusicBrainz offers.
The Utils button doesnt offer any savings options. Just 'Compilation' and 'Suggested Sorting'. No saving options.
So I click on OK and nothing happens.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/4 "2020-08-17T08:35:50Z")
see also this thread:
> [@Albums Covers Are Not Being Saved](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albums-covers-are-not-being-saved/49784/):
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> I have just started using this program and the program is not saving the album covers it is saving track metadata just not the cover. What could I be doing wrong I am getting track into from Discogs??
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/5 "2020-08-17T10:54:55Z")
Bit more info ....
I select the track for which I want a cover, then go to Tag Sources\>Cover Art\>MusicBrainz and select the best match MusicBrainz offers. The Preview button takes me to the MusicBrainz web and I can see the album including its cover.
I then see the 'Adjust Tags Info' window which is completely devoid of any tag info or cover art. The Utils button, lower left, doesnt offer any saving options. Just 'Compilation' and 'Suggested Sorting'. No saving options.
So I click on OK and nothing happens.
Any thoughts anyone?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/6 "2020-08-17T18:47:41Z")
> [@Davy](#):
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> Any thoughts anyone?
It looks to me as though there is not cover available.
If there is one, then you should see it in the cover frame.
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/7 "2020-08-18T16:49:04Z")
Yes looks like there are no tags or cover available.
What I am looking for is Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' and 'St Dominics Preview' and Travelling Wiburys's 'Travelling Wilburys Vol 1'
Three very famous albums. MusicBrainz correctly identifies the albums from my track's tags but after I click on one of the suggestions, then click on 'preview' I an see the album cover but Mp3Tag displays the blank 'Adjust Tag Information' show above.
I must be missing a step?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/8 "2020-08-18T16:55:23Z")
This looks to me like a context or specifc data problem.
Can't you try the same steps with a track for which you already have all the information, just to see whether you really miss something?
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/9 "2020-08-19T14:15:28Z")
Ohrenkino, two of the three tracks had cover images in the folder. One has an image in a tag. All three give blank 'Adjust Tag Info' windows.
I tried Discorgs as a source and that did produce album cover art for 'Astral Weeks' album track but for 'St Dominics Preview' it offered only images of singles from the album, so no good.
Maybe covers are a weak spot in Mp3Tag and I need to use dedicated Covers software?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/10 "2020-08-19T14:32:26Z")
So, apparently a lot of people do not have any problems with images from musicbrainz - otherwise the forum would be overrun with such threads.
That is why I ask you to do the following:
Try a file for which you already got the information from discogs.
This would proove 2 things: 1) you do not have any network problems or so to access the page and 2) the information is actually on the musicbrainz site.
Now you can turn to the files and see what the problem might be with them: spelling might be wrong, the selected release does not have the right data - such things.
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/11 "2020-08-19T16:26:11Z")
> [@Davy](#):
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> I select the track for which I want a cover, then go to Tag Sources\>Cover Art\>MusicBrainz and select the best match MusicBrainz offers. The Preview button takes me to the MusicBrainz web and I can see the album including its cover.
Ohrenkino
I did what you asked but no improvement.
From a previous post:
"I select the track for which I want a cover, then go to Tag Sources\>Cover Art\>MusicBrainz and select the best match MusicBrainz offers. The Preview button takes me to the MusicBrainz web and I can see the album including its cover." So I know MusicBrainz does correctly identify the album and does have cover art.
The spelling must be OK because MusicBrainz correctly identifies the album and the release must be right cos the Preview of the release has all the track information and cover art.
The problem occurs with all albums - even The Beatles!
Can someone who uses MusicBrainz for album covers take me through what they do, carefully, step-by-step - just in case I am missing something.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/12 "2020-08-19T21:40:21Z")
> [@Davy](#):
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> Can someone who uses MusicBrainz for album covers take me through what they do, carefully, step-by-step - just in case I am missing something.
Are you looking for something like this:
[https://s12.directupload.net/images/200819/k9et9l5t.gif(image larger than 3 MB)](https://s12.directupload.net/images/200819/k9et9l5t.gif)
Click on this AniGif to see some more details.
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/13 "2020-08-20T07:23:23Z")
Crumbs LyricsLover, that's clever. I will have to find a way of playing the gif slowly to follow it. Many thanks
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/14 "2020-08-20T07:43:05Z")
Download the AniGif to your computer. Open the picture in [IrfanView](https://www.irfanview.com/).
Press G whenever you want to stop the animation. Press G again to play the next step.
Once stopped, you can also use your mouse wheel to scroll forward and backward, picture by picture.
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### Author:  [@Davy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Davy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/15 "2020-08-20T11:44:09Z")
OK LyricsLover, thanks for that, it shows that I am not doing anything wrong. Its just that MusicBrainz finds the right album but does not download any tags or image.
You dont have to be logged into MusicBrainz or have an account do you?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/16 "2020-08-20T13:14:30Z")
> [@Davy](#):
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> You dont have to be logged into MusicBrainz or have an account do you?
No, a login or an account is only necessary if you want to contribute TO MusicBrainz.
To get data FROM MusicBrainz, you don't need a login.
For which MB-Album you want to get your data and the cover exactly?
Can you please show a PrintScreen for your album in Mp3tag and the same album on MusicBrainz?
_(And just to be sure: You are using the [newest Mp3tag version](https://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html), actually v3.02?)_
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-cover-art-please-get-me-started/49924/17 "2026-02-09T12:28:46Z")