# Really embed artworks in mp3s
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758 "2007-04-18T13:50:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@MarcoakaP](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MarcoakaP)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/1 "2007-04-18T13:50:24Z")
I was a fan of folder hierarchy to organize my songs but creating lot of folders was causing low system performances so I switched to tags. One huge folder with more than 600 songs.
How can I embed cover arts in each song in spite of creating more than 600 files called "folder.jpg"? I saw this function in MediaMonkey and I was amazed. Can I reproduce it with Mp3tag (imo the definitive & ultimate tag organizer)?
Thanks in advance (please answer!),
Marco
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### Author:  [@MarcoakaP](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MarcoakaP)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/2 "2007-04-19T11:50:11Z")
Eilà, is there anybody that can answer me, please?
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### Author:  [@MarcoakaP](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MarcoakaP)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/3 "2007-04-19T12:38:22Z")
Yo men, I solved the problem!
When I added the covers I did everything correctly, my players (WMP11 & Winamp) are faulty 'cause they can't show (probably) embedded pictures. With iTunes everything worked like a charm.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/4 "2007-04-19T15:56:37Z")
For maximum compatability make sure that in "Options \> Tags \> Mpeg" you have selected
IDv2.3 utf-16 or iso-8859-1
and **not**
id3v2.4 utf-8
Winamp cover plugins probably can't read that and WMP can't for sure.
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### Author:  [@MarcoakaP](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MarcoakaP)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/5 "2007-04-20T02:58:06Z")
Yeah, now it works!!!
But I've already written 15 id3v2.4 tags by hand, is there a script that converts from 2.4 to 2.3 (I'm using ISO-8859-1)? And is better ISO-8859-1 or UTF-16?
Thanks for the answer,
Marco
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/6 "2007-04-20T05:22:43Z")
You simply have to resave by clicking on  after changing the settings. If you need support for foreign charachters (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc.) you have to use Unicode. For Latin characters (French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, etc.) you can use ISO-8859-1.
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### Author:  [@MarcoakaP](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MarcoakaP)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/7 "2007-04-20T15:34:03Z")
Thank you all for your kind answers.
Marco
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/really-embed-artworks-in-mp3s/4758/8 "2026-02-09T12:20:15Z")