# Import cover art you have into mp3tag

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 12, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746 "2018-02-12T00:44:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JIM112)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/1 "2018-02-12T00:44:28Z")

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I have the cover art on my desktop. Is there any way I can import this directly?

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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:** [February 12, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/2 "2018-02-12T06:17:16Z")

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You can use the tag panel and right click on the image display area or  
you can use the extended tags dialogue (alt-T) and add a picture or  
you can create an action to import files either with fixed/known file name or a pattern to generate a name or wildcards.

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**Author:** ![JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JIM112)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/3 "2018-02-12T06:52:04Z")

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Thank you. I notice that the art tag options are not god at locating covers for a lot of recent classical recordings.

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**Author:** ![JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@JIM112](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JIM112)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/4 "2018-02-12T08:21:23Z")

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As the image display will only show if the tag art search actually finds something I cannot get the image display. How do you create an action to import files? I know that these album covers are available with other art search engines - it is a pity your search engines cannot find them.

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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:** [February 12, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/5 "2018-02-12T08:29:51Z")

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I am not quite sure what the presence of covers on the desktop has to do with a search engine.  
If you know the filename and if follows a pattern that can be constructed from the tags like  
%album%.jpg  
then you can assign that with an action.  
Actually, you can also assign other patterns that consist of tag variables and/or text constants.  
Or wildcards like \*.jpg  
So if you show us what your

> [@JIM112](#):
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> cover art on my desktop

looks like in respect to folder structure or filename, MP3tag will probably help 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, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-art-you-have-into-mp3tag/40746/6 "2026-02-09T12:27:14Z")

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