# How to delete all album art images? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 15, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601 "2015-02-15T23:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fredo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fredo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fredo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601/1 "2015-02-15T23:00:19Z")
Hi: I have a large audio collection. Each track (in FLAC format) contains the CD cover / album art image in a tag. At this time I want to save space by storing the album art only in the album folder, not in each track. Can MP3tag delete only the album art from a selected group of tracks / files? Offline help information contains the following: ``` Removing embedded cover art Please use PICTURE as field name if you want to remove cover art from the tags. ``` However, I do not understand the terse instructions. How does this work, please? Also, I currently use MediaMonkey to play tracks. It is able to display album art images contained in the album folder. I may migrate to JRiver. Is there any advice on why I should not remove album art from individual tracks? Thanks, Fred ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601/2 "2015-02-16T05:41:06Z")
> [@Fredo](#): > > ... Is there any advice on why I should not remove album art from individual tracks? > > Thanks, > > Fred If you want to manipulate specific data in a file, you have to address this data by the field name. The field name for the embedded picture is PICTURE. You can delete the cover from a file e.g. with the extended tags dialogue: Select all files Press Alt-T - the extended tags dialogue opens. In the extended tags dialogue there is a little square on the right with, among others, a red-x-button beside it. This function deletes the picture. The advice on deleting pictures: don't. It does not really save a lot of space. But it causes an awful lot of extra hustle to re-install the pictures. It only works for players that rely on an external cover file. It only works if you always play complete folders e.g. on a stick on your car stereo If you happen to rename the files in such a way that they end up in a new folder, the picture file remains in the old folder. Removing coverart from a flac file requires an extra tool to access the (little) extra space as otherwise the new space is used as padding and you don't see any of it. In short: I wouldn't do it. ---
**Author:** ![Fredo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fredo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fredo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601/3 "2015-02-16T13:44:37Z")
> The advice on deleting pictures: don't. Thanks, ohrenkino, for excellent advice! I won't remove pictures from the track files. Cheers, Fred ---
**Author:** ![C-S-T](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@C-S-T](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/C-S-T)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601/4 "2015-02-19T12:51:36Z")
ok, it will save space, if there are only high-res-covers (front, back, booklet,...) stored in each (mp3) file. ![:rolleyes:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/3a79e8b0b7d169b30216785521d7c6f4f895c421.gif ":rolleyes:") i just use the front cover in low resolution (500x500, 72dpi), this will take about 100 kb. the cluster size of your file-system is much higher... ---
**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-delete-all-album-art-images/16601/5 "2026-02-09T12:25:32Z")