# Mass album art import
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098 "2010-11-09T14:42:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098/1 "2010-11-09T14:42:05Z")
Hi,
First of all, thanks for all the great work with Mp3tag, an absolute top product!
I would like to automatically import the file folder.jpg into my MP3 files, without changing file date, if possible.
Also, I don't want to override the existing album art.
The folder/file structure is as follows:
\\ARTIST\YEAR - ALBUM\FOLDER.JPG
my files are structured as follows:
\\ARTIST\YEAR - ALBUM\ARTIST - ALBUMS - TRACK - TITLE.mp3.
So is it possible to do this with one action, or with a script?
Many thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098/2 "2010-11-09T16:01:10Z")
Action: Import cover from file
Format string for image filename: folder.jpg
Leave "Delete existing cover art" unchecked.
Doesn't the name of this action explain it itself? File Modification Date is of course changed, File Creation Date not.
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### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098/3 "2010-11-09T18:26:50Z")
> [@pone](#):
>
> Action: Import cover from file
> Format string for image filename: folder.jpg
>
> Leave "Delete existing cover art" unchecked.
>
> Doesn't the name of this action explain it itself? File Modification Date is of course changed, File Creation Date not.
Hi Pone,
Brilliant! I couldn't have hoped for such a quick & easy soluction.
Thanks for the quick answer.
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### Author:  [@jdedrick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jdedrick)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098/4 "2010-12-12T19:30:20Z")
I followed these instructions exactly - I had album art in "folder.jpg" in each album folder. But there was a frightening side effect: Somehow MP3tag is no longer able to read _any_ tag information from my library - Artist, Title, etc. etc. all are now blank on every song.
iTunes and Windows can still read them, so I don't think the info was erased, but MP3tag can't see it.
I have checked all three formats in "read", and "APEv2 and ID3v2.3/UTF16" for write, and checked all three for "remove".
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
J
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-album-art-import/11098/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:41Z")