# How to change folder icons of music file using mp3tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-folder-icons-of-music-file-using-mp3tag/46807
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 19, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-folder-icons-of-music-file-using-mp3tag/46807 "2019-10-19T21:10:20Z")
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#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-folder-icons-of-music-file-using-mp3tag/46807/5 "2019-10-20T04:58:01Z")

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> [@MDNL](#):
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> saving a picture in folder and calling it "folder" in order to make it happen, isn't what I'm looking for.

The windows-explorer takes this media-specific folder-icon directly from the covers that are embedded in the files. So if there is more that 1 file it shows an icon- catalog. You can avoid that with a file called folder.jpg in your folders. If this file is present the explorer will show only 1 icon according to this file.

Windows itself with it's media-player created folder.jpgs too but they are hidden and system. So as long as you do not activate to also see hidden and system-files in the explorer-options you won't see them as files. So in the past you used folder.jpgs too. For me and others this functionality of WMP was always an annoyance and therefore I avoided to use the WMP:

> [@Tool to delete folder.jpg, AlbumArtSmall.jpg, desktop.ini, ...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-folder-jpg-albumartsmall-jpg-desktop-ini/13061):
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> Some of my album folders have a set of files which I believe is created by Windows Media Player. These files are: desktop.ini AlbumArtSmall.jpg AlbumArt\_{7E518F75-1BC4-4CD1-92B4-B349D9E9248B}Large.jpg AlbumArt{7E518F75-1BC4-4CD1-92B4-B349D9E9248B}\_Small.jpg Folder.jpg These files are hidden files and hidden files. I can't see them in the Windows Explorer. But they show up in Mp3tag Albumart Preview Window, and they can't be overwritten by Mp3tag. That's anoying, because I have set Mp3tag…

If you have embedded covers in your media-files MP3Tag can help you to create these folder.jpg-files in one-go.

1. I understand that you have separate folders for each album and your files have identic covers embedded per folder. So load all your files in MP3Tag and mark them. (CTRL-a)

2. Define an action of the type "Export cover to file". You can do this with `Actions->Actions (Quick)` or if you want to preserve your action for future use with `Actions->Actions`  
As filename you write `folder`. Don't mark "export duplicate covers".

The feature "desktop-ini" ist not very practicable to use for your purpose and wasn't made for media-folders by Microsoft.

> **[How to Customize Folders with Desktop.ini - Win32 apps](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/how-to-customize-folders-with-desktop-ini)**
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> Customize the appearance and behavior of an individual folder with a Desktop.ini file.

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