# Preserve cover art when deleting other fields
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170 "2006-04-12T02:29:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jack\_dougan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jack_dougan)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170/1 "2006-04-12T02:29:42Z")
Hello,
I have been searching the forums here but I cannot find the name of the COVER(s) field. I am trying to clean up the tags in my mp3 files and would like to remove all fields except certain ones. So I am using the action below:
Remove fields except "artist;album;track;genre;year;contentgroup;title;discnumber"
This also removes the cover in the MP3. Is there a way I can prevent that from happening?
I only have 1 cover per file if that is relevant.
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS: Any idea if iTunes and iPod ratings are stored in the MP3 as a particular field (if so what is it) or as I suspect, they are stored in the library files on the iPod
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### Author:  [@SquallLeonhart38](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SquallLeonhart38)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170/2 "2006-04-12T06:28:31Z")
You look for something like this
Remove fields except: "artist;album;track;genre;year;contentgroup;title;discnumber; **picture**"
Then the Cover will be saved and not removed.
@ iTunes question:
I tested it now and the result is:
No, the ratings are not stored in the files. I rated one file, selected "Convert ID3 Tags" and then I looked into the file via Mp3tag and Notepad. And no, the rating is not stored in the file. It is stored in library.
I could also be wrong but I don't think that I made something wrong.
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### Author:  [@jack\_dougan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jack_dougan)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170/3 "2006-04-12T14:11:15Z")
Thank you very much, my friend. That did it. I just did not know picture was the magic word.
2nd Answer: even after cleaning my ratings are safe therefore you were right on that one too.
By the way, the developers participate in this forum and I would like to say that you have made a wonderful program. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@SquallLeonhart38](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SquallLeonhart38)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170/4 "2006-04-13T05:49:09Z")
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> Thank you very much, my friend. That did it. I just did not know picture was the magic word.
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> 2nd Answer: even after cleaning my ratings are safe therefore you were right on that one too.
> By the way, the developers participate in this forum and I would like to say that you have made a wonderful program. Thank you.
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
I'm glad that I was able to help you. 🙂
Much fun with cleaning up your tags. And I know that this takes pretty long.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/preserve-cover-art-when-deleting-other-fields/3170/5 "2026-02-09T12:19:43Z")