# how to change en masse tagged album art to one image file?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 24, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442 "2014-12-24T00:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![will279](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@will279](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/will279)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442/1 "2014-12-24T00:27:43Z")

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all of my lossless music is in one large folder, and currently I have album art tagged to every track in the album. I know how to put the audio files into sub directories for each album, but when I move the cover art to a file, i get a file from each track in the album. how do I get only one copy of the album art?

and to make some of this even more difficult, some albums have multiple covers, so 2 covers on each track in an album. some individual tracks in an album might also have cover art from it's single release as well.

if you can only help with any individual part of this problem, it would still be a big help, thanks.

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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:** [December 24, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442/2 "2014-12-24T09:01:43Z")

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If you tick the option "Export duplicates" in the action to export covers, then you should end up with only one picture file.  
If you specify a filename for the cover files that also includes the cover\_type then you would get one picture file for each different picture, e.g. %album%\_%cover\_type%.jpg

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442/3 "2014-12-24T10:45:27Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> If you specify a filename for the cover files that also includes the cover\_type then you would get one picture file for each different picture, e.g. %album%\_%cover\_type%.jpg

% **\_** cover\_type%

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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:** [December 24, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442/4 "2014-12-24T10:57:50Z")

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Thank you. 😉

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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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-en-masse-tagged-album-art-to-one-image-file/16442/5 "2026-02-09T12:25:25Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC