# My cover arts won't export
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 16, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954 "2024-09-16T18:10:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@GawdAwful](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GawdAwful)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/1 "2024-09-16T18:10:59Z")
So I made a new action, chose "export cover to file", and tried two separate format strings for filenames. `E:\MP3s\Albums%album%` (but I'm sure I made a huge mistake, I'm new to this kind of thing), and $validate($trim(%BAND%) - $trim(%ALBUM%),) from [this](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-export-cover-to-file-action/5962/11). But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get any of my tracks to convert.
I know if I right click on the album art and extract, works like a charm. But I have a lot of tracks to do this for, so I'm stuck until I get this batch action working.
Any advice?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/2 "2024-09-16T18:15:29Z")
That thread from 2007 is not up-to-date.
%band% is now called %albumartist%
Much better is a thread from the HowTos (or FAQs):
> [@How to export cover art to directory structure](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-export-cover-art-to-directory-structure/47037):
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> A user on Twitter asks I want to export my whole library CD covers to a folder in which my library folder architecture will be preserved : i don't want to end up with all CD covers mixed in a single folder. I made searched but coudn't find the way to. Hope you'll help, thanks. The way to go here is with an action "Export cover to file" and a custom format string that resembles the directory structure (see [this post](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/2) on how to create actions in Mp3tag). The format string can be a combination …
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### Author:  [@GawdAwful](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GawdAwful)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/3 "2024-09-16T18:34:11Z")
I noticed that one as well, I attempted a direct copy paste of the string, obviously with directory differences, but still no success. I've also been wandering through [placeholder formats](https://docs.mp3tag.de/format/) and [the actions documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/). But for the life of me, nothing works. ID3v2.4 is fine? Or is there some other place I should look as a default directory or something?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/4 "2024-09-16T18:42:18Z")
> [@GawdAwful](#):
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> ID3v2.4 is fine
That should not make the difference.
Could you show us screenshots of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T, the action, a description of which filename you intend to get and which one you actually got.
And also, make sure that you actually have embedded covers with the filter
%\_covers% PRESENT
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### Author:  [@GawdAwful](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GawdAwful)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/5 "2024-09-16T19:01:02Z")
Applying the %\_covers% PRESENT filter all my files still show. I can show screenshots, but my point is I have yet to even get one extracted cover at all, I sadly haven't got anything from any string that I've found or edited.
I would like to get them all in my E:\MP3s\Albums folder as jpgs with the same file names as the music files, a separate copy for each track
Here's one example track I've been testing strings with. Clearly if I select them all it just comes up for most values.
Thank you for helping btw.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/6 "2024-09-16T19:06:12Z")
> [@GawdAwful](#):
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> E:\MP3s\Albums
Try as
Format string: `E:\Albums\%album%`
You have set to export only the front covers.
Looking at the extended tags dialogue, I see the only cover not to be a front cover but to be of the type "Other".
Do not tick the option to restrict the cover type to include also the "other" types.
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### Author:  [@GawdAwful](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GawdAwful)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/7 "2024-09-16T19:08:53Z")
wow, thank you so much. Much appreciated. I'll spend my time figuring out the specifics, just saved me so much headache.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-cover-arts-wont-export/65954/8 "2024-10-16T19:08:57Z")
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