# importing .gif files for album artwork
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 12, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027 "2008-07-12T16:58:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ksn)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/1 "2008-07-12T16:58:21Z")
hi everyone - i searched to see whether something similar had been asked already, didn't find anything, apologies if i missed it. i'm trying to figure out how to import gif files into tags. jpgs, jpegs and pngs work fine, but if i put a gif into the folder i'm working on, the sw doesn't recognize it's there. it's probably just a question of adding \*.gif somewhere, just can't find the right place.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
cheers from new york city,
ksn
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/2 "2008-07-13T09:08:27Z")
Adding GIF files is unfortunately not possible.
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### Author:  [@chinesealbumart](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chinesealbumart)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/3 "2008-07-13T09:32:40Z")
But it should be relatively quick and easy to convert a GIF to a JPEG, no ?
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### Author:  [@ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ksn)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/4 "2008-07-13T13:57:56Z")
@ florian - thanks for the sunday reply, hope right after you left for a pub or something 😃 . bummer. out of curiosity, is there a technical issue? or did you decide against some formats at some point?
@ chinese/florian - any suggestions for converting? (am pretty new to this stuff). can a program like acdsee do that? is there a low-maintenance free/shareware for that you can recommend?
thans and cheers,
ksn
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### Author:  [@chinesealbumart](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chinesealbumart)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/5 "2008-07-13T14:18:22Z")
> [@ksn](#):
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> @ chinese/florian - any suggestions for converting? (am pretty new to this stuff). can a program like acdsee do that? is there a low-maintenance free/shareware for that you can recommend?
I personally use HyperSnap as I am used to it but it is a shareware. For a freeware that I used sometimes to manipulate album art, I recommend [Photofiltre](http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm)
You can use it to convert gif to jpeg (open your gif file and then do a SAVE AS) and then u can even change its size (e.g. I work with 500x500) for your MP3 album art
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### Author:  [@ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ksn)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/6 "2008-07-13T14:59:24Z")
> [@Chinese Album Art](#):
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> I personally use HyperSnap as I am used to it but it is a shareware. For a freeware that I used sometimes to manipulate album art, I recommend [Photofiltre](http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm)
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> You can use it to convert gif to jpeg (open your gif file and then do a SAVE AS) and then u can even change its size (e.g. I work with 500x500) for your MP3 album art
thanks for the tip, i'll be sure to try this out!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-gif-files-for-album-artwork/7027/7 "2026-02-09T12:21:02Z")