# Replace artwork with artist name? **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-artwork-with-artist-name/49282 **Category:** Support **Created:** [June 12, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-artwork-with-artist-name/49282 "2020-06-12T03:43:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### 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: [June 12, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-artwork-with-artist-name/49282/4 "2020-06-12T06:54:23Z")
How do you update the player's display? If you have a track that shows the title allright, then the questions are: is this really the contents from the field TITLE? This can be tested when you change the title and then see whether this modification is detected by the player. The next question is: could it be the filename that is shown? What happens, if you rename the file (a little with e.g. an added underscore)? Is there a cache or database lingering in the background that needs to be updated? Then: what kind of files are these? mp3? flac? wav? other? if mp3: what kind of tag versions do you find in the files? just id3 or APE as well? Are the file OK? Perhaps it is worthwhile to test them with the tools linked in this thread: > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … What does the manual say about the features of the player? does it support the file type and tag type that you use? And coming back to the original idea of overlaying the picture with tag data: > [@Dare I make a Feature Suggestion?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dare-i-make-a-feature-suggestion/15557): > > I'm a DJ (allegedly...), and I have a real issue with tracks that do not have embedded artwork! I love the functionality of MP3Tag, that allows embedding of artwork. I'm just now looking into adding artwork based on the GENRE tag. What would be truly awesome, would be if MP3Tag could apply user defined artwork/album cover, BUT, actually paste over the top of that artwork information from teh tags - I'm thinking artist and title here. So, you would run an action that would fetch a piece of ar… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-artwork-with-artist-name/49282)._