# Possible to remove cover art if smaller than specific dimensions/size?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936 "2018-06-15T11:59:12Z")
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### Author:  [@LaurenBacall](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaurenBacall)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/1 "2018-06-15T11:59:12Z")
Maybe I just didn't use the right search query but couldn't find if it's currently possible to tell Mp3Tag using an action to remove a file's cover art if the image dimensions are smaller than a particular width/height.
Basically there's a podcast I download that has begun using 300x300px cover art where before they embedded 512x512px art, but I can't be sure they won't go back to using the larger art again so only want to remove the art (and afterward replace manually with a larger size) if the dimensions are of the smaller art.
Is there a way to accomplish this or would it fall under a new feature suggestion?
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/2 "2018-06-15T12:57:52Z")
As I understand you want to replace smaller cover-art with larger cover-art anyway.
So why remove smaller cover art first?
Just sort (defining a column) or filter for the smaller cover-art, look for larger cover-art and replace the smaller ones.
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### Author:  [@LaurenBacall](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaurenBacall)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/3 "2018-06-15T13:05:58Z")
The thing is, I have an action I run on each episode to format the tags already, so I don't have a list of files that feature the smaller art since I process each episode weekly and they're all up to date.
I should probably also mention the cover art changes per episode, which I'd forgotten to add to the OP. Because of this just wondered if there's a way to auto remove cover art based on dimensions at all since it's an extra step currently.
Alternatively if there was an option to change the drag-and-drop behavior of cover art so that dropping an image replaced the 'Front' cover instead of adding it as another image that would also save a step. Maybe as a modifier+mouse drop like Alt+Drop to replace whatever the particular visible art is, whether front/back/etc, might be one thing to consider (unless I've missed an existing option).
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/4 "2018-06-15T14:07:38Z")
So you need this action just to remove the cover-art of only just new incoming files?
Otherwise it should be no problem to once load all files, mark the filtered or sorted with small dimensions, right-click on the displayed cover-field in the tag-panel, and say: "Remove cover".
There is also an action-type "Import Cover from Files" which has the option to replace existing covers.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/5 "2018-06-15T14:10:33Z")
Probably it is actually not possible.
The only way I see to remove a picture with an action is the "remove fields" action and the fieldname PICTURE.
But I do not see any way to conditionally trigger this action.
The other tweak to write `\\` or $char(0) into a field to delete it (format value) does not work for PICTURE...
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### Author:  [@LaurenBacall](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaurenBacall)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/6 "2018-06-15T14:41:17Z")
Thanks for the replies. So I guess as-is not possible yet, the way I'm doing it, though good tip by @poster about a cover art dimensions column should I need it for lists of files anytime 👍
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### Author:  [@sivaram2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sivaram2)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/7 "2020-08-27T21:06:27Z")
Hello!
I'd like to revive this thread if possible to double-check with the devs / @Florian if there has been any changes in programmatically removing or adjusting cover art.
Here are some hypothetical usecases and scripting syntax where this would be awesome to use:
- FORMAT VALUE: `PICTURE` = `$ifgreater(%cover_width%,1200,$adjustcover(JPG,1200),%PICTURE%)`
So in the pseudo-example above, I'd be trying to express: "if the album art has a width larger than 1200px, then resize as a JPEG to a max-width of 1200px, else keep it as-is".
- FORMAT VALUE: `PICTURE` = `$if($eql(1,%compilation%),,%PICTURE%)`
Here's another pseudo-example, which expresses: "if the compilation tag == 1, then remove the album art, else keep it as-is".
Having some way to wrangle cover art in the "Format Value" action type would be so powerful! Curious to know if anything like this is in the development pipeline. 🙂
Cheers,
Aswin
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/8 "2020-08-28T04:28:35Z")
Please have a look at the changelog:
[https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html](https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html)
(and search for "cover" to find
[2020-01-14] NEW: action type 'Adjust cover' to resize cover art via actions. ([#4662](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4662), [#12512](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/12512), [#15355](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/15355), [#18061](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/18061), [#45228](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/45228))
Or have a look at the help on actions:
> **[Actions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/)**
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> Documentation on Quick Actions and Action Groups that covers replace text, case conversion, tag to tag conversion, duplicate field handling, batch cover import/export, and more. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
> [@sivaram2](#):
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> Here's another pseudo-example, which expresses: "if the compilation tag == 1, then remove the album art, else keep it as-is".
see the help on filters:
> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/)**
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> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
and on scripting functions:
> **[Scripting Functions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting/)**
>
> Documentation on Mp3tag's scripting functions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-to-remove-cover-art-if-smaller-than-specific-dimensions-size/41936/9 "2026-02-09T12:27:28Z")