# Import multiple covers in one file

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-multiple-covers-in-one-file/3904
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 15, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-multiple-covers-in-one-file/3904 "2006-10-15T22:03:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![wab66](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@wab66](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wab66)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-multiple-covers-in-one-file/3904/1 "2006-10-15T22:03:44Z")

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Thanks to Sebastian the cover export and import worked fine for me with the $validate(%artist% - %title%,) to assure that for the file system operations only allowed characters would be used (: or ? will be replaced with nothing).

But if I have multiple covers like front & back I got exportfiles like

Survivor - Eye of the tiger.jpg  
Survivor - Eye of the tiger(1).jpg

$validate(%artist% - %title%,).jpg works only for the first cover.

So I tried this for the second  
$validate(%artist% - %title%(%dummy%),).jpg

but this doesn't work =\> do I have to mask the ( with /( and /) ...

Hope someone has good tip to get this work maybe with only one action .... ![:music:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/2ba05d1ade5eb0d15fc173be6f717dbe63890a70.gif ":music:")

Thx

**UPDATE:**  
I made one action with several similiar actions and that worked fine  
Action Import Cover  
$validate(%artist% - %title%,).jpg  
$validate(%artist% - %title%,)(1).jpg  
$validate(%artist% - %title%,)(2).jpg  
$validate(%artist% - %title%,)(3).jpg

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-multiple-covers-in-one-file/3904/2 "2006-10-17T17:03:32Z")

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Sorry, but the %dummy% placeholder is not available here. You can use some actions with fixed values instead.

Best regards,  
Florian

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-multiple-covers-in-one-file/3904/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:56Z")

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