# Setting album art for many songs

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 2, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596 "2019-06-02T08:06:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kailash331)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596/1 "2019-06-02T08:06:41Z")

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Hi guys so in my music collection, I have all my music tagged by title, album and artist  
the problem is, in every album only the first song has album art for me. is there an action where it takes the album art of one song in the album and applies it to every song?  
thanks guys

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**Author:** ![kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kailash331)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596/2 "2019-06-02T08:17:28Z")

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Sorry, i got it by myself. In case anyone wants,  
export album covers to %album%.jpg and then import from %album%.jpg

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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:** [June 2, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596/3 "2019-06-02T08:20:05Z")

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MP3tag does not know anything about

> [@kailash331](#):
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> one song in the album

as it does no know anything about albums.  
You could do the following:  
Execute an action of the type "Export covert to file" that first exports the already embedded album art. Use as  
Format string: `%artist%_%album%`  
Now filter for those files that do not have album art:  
`%_covers% MISSING`  
Select all displayed files,  
then apply an action to import the covers with an action of the type "Import cover from file"  
Format string: `%artist%_%album%.jpg`

You could then refresh the filter by pressing F3 twice. Ideally, now no files should be displayed. If there are still some left, then there was no cover file for them in the file system, either because none got exported or the names do not match.

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**Author:** ![kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@kailash331](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kailash331)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596/4 "2019-06-02T08:20:38Z")

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Exactly, thanks for the quick reply! Really appreciate it

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-album-art-for-many-songs/45596/5 "2019-07-02T08:20:38Z")

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