# Import cover from file
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 2, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858 "2006-02-02T23:54:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Sammy20](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sammy20)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/1 "2006-02-02T23:54:38Z")
Does this feature support wildcards?
I've got all my album art as different filenames in my album directory's. But there all .jpg.
I tried these combinations:
_.jpg
%\_all%.jpg
%_%.jpg
But none of them worked ☹
Is there any such wildcard command? If not, it would be cool to add it in the next version, as renaming all my covers to a single name would be troublesome for me.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/2 "2006-02-03T04:35:58Z")
Such wildcards are not supported. If the files have the same name as the folder, the album, the artist, etc. you can use **%album%.jpg** and the like.
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### Author:  [@Sammy20](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sammy20)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/3 "2006-02-03T14:15:26Z")
Dam it! 
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/4 "2006-02-03T15:20:41Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Dam it! 
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Well, what if you have 3 JPG files in your folder? How should MP3Tag be able to decide which one to use?
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### Author:  [@Sammy20](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sammy20)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/5 "2006-02-04T00:27:06Z")
Hey,
Well, I dont have 3. I just have 1 per folder (the front cover).
I'm trying to think of a way around this, but right now mp3tag using wildcards is the only thing that would work for me right now.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/6 "2006-02-04T07:51:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> I'm trying to think of a way around this, but right now mp3tag using wildcards is the only thing that would work for me right now.
I would use these steps in [Total Commander](http://www.ghisler.com)
- navigate to the root folder of your music collection
- do a search for \*.jpg files [Alt+F7]
- press Feed to listbox on the results window
- select all files
- open the Multi Rename Tool [Ctrl+M]
- enter **folder** or **album** at Rename mask: filename
- press Start!
This will rename all \*.jpg files in your music collection to folder.jpg or album.jpg. If something went wrong, you can open the Multi Rename Tool again and press the Undo button.
Hope that helps.
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@Sammy20](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sammy20)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/7 "2006-02-05T00:18:09Z")
I actually did that already, but I used flashrenamer to do it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-cover-from-file/2858/8 "2026-02-09T12:19:37Z")