# Recompressing Album Art

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recompressing-album-art/16003
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 13, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recompressing-album-art/16003 "2014-08-13T21:11:55Z")
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### Author: ![GatoRat](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/f6c823/32.png) [@GatoRat](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GatoRat)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recompressing-album-art/16003/1 "2014-08-13T21:11:55Z")

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Some MP3 players balk at album art which is too big (mine insists that Album art be less than 100k.) When I download song, I have a ritual of cutting, pasting into my paint program and then saving until I get it just under 100k, adding the art back and then saving.

A neat feature would be to be able to do the re-compressing within MP3tag.

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### Author: ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recompressing-album-art/16003/2 "2014-08-14T02:47:04Z")

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> [@GatoRat](#):
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> and then saving until I get it just under 100k, adding the art back and then saving.

There is software that is able to compress to defined dimensions and defined ilesize automatically, e.g. irfanview.

Are you talking about embedded artwork or externel artwork-files in the album directory?

Waht do you mean by cutting & pasting?  
If you deal with embedded artwork you should **export** this to a file if you want to change it.  
And never embed compressed artwork with copy & paste into mp3s but use "add cover". With copy & paste it gets much larger.

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recompressing-album-art/16003/3 "2014-08-14T02:49:40Z")

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> [@GatoRat](#):
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> ...A neat feature would be to be able to do the re-compressing within MP3tag.

see here: [http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?act=Sear...hlite=%2Bresize](http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=de04e0e6e51cc7af6f250e1810baa45b&search_in=posts&result_type=topics&highlite=%2Bresize)  
or here: [Changing Cover Art if it is below 600x600 pixels](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/15010/1)  
ore here: [Resize album art?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/15355/1)  
just to name a few