# My .mp3 files no longer have embedded images
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 27, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406 "2024-07-27T22:18:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@aaarom123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aaarom123)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/1 "2024-07-27T22:18:54Z")
I noticed that many of my .mp3 files no longer have embedded images.
I know they once had them because the folders all have the Folder.jpg files that WMP generates.
So my question is: Can I use MP3Tag to somehow copy the Folder.jpg files into the .mp3 files?
But not one at a time since I have very many files to fix.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/2 "2024-07-27T22:21:39Z")
Try an action of the type "Import cover from file"
> **[Import Cover from File – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/import-cover/)**
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> Documentation on the Import Cover action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Set as filename: folder.jpg
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### Author:  [@aaarom123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aaarom123)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/3 "2024-07-27T22:29:43Z")
Sounds great but I don't know how to how what the document says. Can you give me a quick how to do this?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/4 "2024-07-27T22:31:39Z")
See the FAQs:
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/2):
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> How to create a new action? First, create a new action group via Actions \> [Actions] Actions or Alt + 6. Then, click on the button [New] New and give your action group an expressive name, e.g., "All tag fields Upper Case". This action group can be applied to the selected files after you have added one or more actions to it. Now, you can create a new action in your action group via the button [New] New and choose the desired action type from the list. At the moment the following action types …
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### Author:  [@aaarom123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aaarom123)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/5 "2024-07-27T22:34:19Z")
Thank you, I'll try now.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 5:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/6 "2024-07-28T05:57:51Z")
> [@aaarom123](#):
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> So my question is: Can I use MP3Tag to somehow copy the Folder.jpg files into the .mp3 files?
However, you should bear in mind that folder.jpgs created by Windows Media Player from the embedded cover files only have a small resolution of 200x200 pixels and are not identical to the previously embedded pictures, which may have had a higher resolution.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 7:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/7 "2024-07-28T07:44:09Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> a small resolution of 200x200 pixels
@poster is right - and the import would overwrite existing and perhaps better pictures.
So: to treat only files that really have no embedded picture use a filter:
%\_covers% MISSING
Disable and enable this filter after you have imported the pictures to see how many files are still without embedded picture - as there was no file called folder.jpg in the file's folder.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/8 "2024-07-28T11:01:52Z")
> [@aaarom123](#):
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> I know they once had them because the folders all have the Folder.jpg files that WMP generates.
Are you sure these cover images were actually embedded? A quick check of a few of the folder.jpg files will help to confirm. If they are larger than 200x200 then they probably weren't created by WMP.
I am curious to understand how the embedded images would have been stripped out. Are all other metadata fields intact like Title, Album, Artist, etc.?
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### Author:  [@aaarom123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aaarom123)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/9 "2024-07-30T20:25:24Z")
I am curious to understand how the embedded images would have been stripped out.
I have no idea how or when
Are all other metadata fields intact like Title, Album, Artist, etc.?
. Yes
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/10 "2024-07-30T20:31:50Z")
> [@aaarom123](#):
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> I am curious to understand how the embedded images would have been stripped out.
I doubt that anyone who has not looked over your shoulder all the time will be able to say anything about this.
Much more interesting in this forum would be:
Have you succeeded to embed the existing pictures?
Did you check the result with the filter?
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### Author:  [@aaarom123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aaarom123)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/11 "2024-07-31T01:12:17Z")
Yes, I did as you said.
Mp3Diag tells me I have progressive jpg files inbedded.
These are not from the imbedded Folder.jpg. files
I did not have a Folder.jpg for a couple of CDs so I downloaded images.
Do you know the file extension for progressive jpg files?
I'll look for different images to replace the progressive ones.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/12 "2024-07-31T05:25:10Z")
> [@aaarom123](#):
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> Do you know the file extension for progressive jpg files?
jpg? jpeg?
They usually differ only internally. You could modify them and transform them to the png format which does not not know progressiveness.
And just for the record: progressive jpgs have a valid format - it is only some players that cannot cope with them.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-files-no-longer-have-embedded-images/65406/13 "2024-08-30T05:25:50Z")
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