# Request for better handling of multiple embedded images
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 30, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273 "2018-03-30T19:35:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273/1 "2018-03-30T19:35:12Z")
I would like to start some kind of brainstorming how the handling of embedded images could be enhanced.
Definitely on my wish list would be functions
- to set image types via actions,
- switch one type of image to another with an action,
- remove only specific images of a certain type with an action,
- treat images like multi-value fields so that one could see e.g. all the types of embedded images with a function like $meta\_sep(\_cover\_type,\) in a files list column
- get away from the order "1st, 2nd, 3rd" to an addressing system that uses the type of an image.
- set the image description for more than just one file at a time (and also remove the description) as well as action as a function in the tag panel.
Right now some of the functions are there but only for a single file at a time, the only way to determine the image type with an action is during import so that a lot of manipulations rely on the detour via the file system - it should be much easier to do the manipulation of image tag attributes within MP3tag.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273/2 "2018-03-31T12:26:18Z")
In addition to your list I would like to see some kind of image resolution manipulation possibilities.
It should be possbile to set an embedded cover to a defined resolution without additional 3rd party tools.
At least a "shrink this embedded cover to this resolution"-command would be great.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273/3 "2018-04-06T17:24:42Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> In addition to your list I would like to see some kind of image resolution manipulation possibilities
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> [...]
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> At least a "shrink this embedded cover to this resolution"-command would be great.
If "shrink" then why not "scale up"? Or simply just: "resize" [with at least an option of a fixed ratio of 1:1]
Somebody might want to make them bigger, because how a given player shows them. Even if that would mean "pixelizing" them [but small increases like to 120% of original are pretty much of the same quality / readability]
And with that would nicely go along implementation of these features:
> [@Request: Column for cover image dimensions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-column-for-cover-image-dimensions/41243/6):
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> And if implementing such feature: why not also give ability to display in Column only vertical size and only horizontal size? So something like: cover\_resolution cover\_resolution\_horizontal cover\_resolution\_vertical
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-better-handling-of-multiple-embedded-images/41273/4 "2018-04-06T17:31:24Z")
I would like to emphasize that the functions that I had in mind only deal with the container of the embedded image - and not with the image itself.
My request is not the attempt to make MP3tag into a graphics program.