# Moving cover art to dedicated folders
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 6, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128 "2021-05-06T20:08:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Farquarh1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Farquarh1)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/1 "2021-05-06T20:08:28Z")
I would like to place all my album covers in a folder (cover art) with each in a sub folder (artist) named album (name.extension) is this possible?
Thanks in advance, D.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/2 "2021-05-07T05:45:20Z")
Once the covers are embedded, create an action of the type "Export cover to file" and set an absolute path in the
Format string: `d:\cover art\%artist%\%album%`
(the extension depends on the picture type)
If you have several types of embedded covers like front, back, leaflet, I would add the cover type to the
Format string: `d:\cover art\%artist%\%album%_%_cover_type%`
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### Author:  [@Farquarh1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Farquarh1)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/3 "2021-05-07T12:51:25Z")
Thanks for the response. I'm only using front covers, but the script didn't work.
Name: Export cover to file
Path: `c:\cover art\%artist%\%album%`
Parameter: /ar "%artist%" /al "%album%" /p "%\_folderpath%folder.jpg" /t f /mn 500 /mx 3000 /o a- /ac
I would appreciate any further assistance you could provide.
Thanks, D.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/4 "2021-05-07T13:22:39Z")
Do you really use the [newest version of Mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-development-build-status/455)?
I don't see any "Parameter" field in my action "Export cover to file"
This action creates the absolute path `C:\cover art` if it doesn't yet exist. Then it creates a subdirectory with the name of the artist inside `C:\cover art`. And inside this artist, it creates an subdirectory with the name of the album.
Be aware that this only works if your artist- and album name doesn't include any [forbidden characters](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file#naming-conventions) like \* or ? or / and some more.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/5 "2021-05-07T13:29:10Z")
I think we both misunderstood each other.
Apparently, you are asking about the program Albumartdownloader and I talk about an action to export already embedded covers.
So, my suggestion: get Albumartdownloader to embed the cover, then save the cover with the action.
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### Author:  [@Farquarh1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Farquarh1)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/6 "2021-05-07T20:14:44Z")
Thanks LyricsLover the screen shot was perfect!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/7 "2022-06-20T06:13:37Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [Cover in Datei exportieren](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-in-datei-exportieren/57675)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-art-to-dedicated-folders/53128/8 "2022-07-20T06:14:26Z")
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