# Stamping a track To Show Cover When Playing Windows media Player
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845 "2026-03-09T07:16:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Bongopete](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bongopete)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/1 "2026-03-09T07:16:41Z")
I have downloaded a album image cover and selected the cover and saved through MP3 Tag which is fine but when I play the track in both MP3 tag and Windows Media Player it still shows the old cover. How do I get it to show the new saved cover to show when playing the track. TIA
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 7:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/2 "2026-03-09T07:24:43Z")
A quick forum search reveals this hint:
> [@Changed cover doesn't display in m4a files in windows explorer and desktop](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changed-cover-doesnt-display-in-m4a-files-in-windows-explorer-and-desktop/54509/2):
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> I would always think that if MP3tag shows the modified data correctly, then MP3tag has done its duty. If the player then acts up, it would be a question for the support of the player why the player does not behave. Anyway: it could be that there are still folder.jpg files lurking around in the file folder. Or that the windows media player cache still holds the old picture. In both cases only deleting the old data will help, if this is the cause. The WMP cache resides in %localappdata%\Micr…
> [@Bongopete](#):
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> which is fine but when I play the track in both MP3 tag
Just to be sure: Do you see the new cover in Mp3tag after you load this changed song again into Mp3tag or not?
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### Author:  [@Bongopete](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bongopete)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/3 "2026-03-09T17:49:56Z")
I have removed the original cover and replaced it with the new cover and saved. The new cover shows in the bottom left of MP3 tag. When I click to pay the track through MP3 tag a new windows screen pops (windows Media player) up but it shows the old cover and not the new cover I have saved in MP3 tag and at the bottom left of the MP3 program.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/4 "2026-03-09T17:53:08Z")
Have you cleared the WMP cache, the file folder.jpg and perhaps even the file thumbs.db?
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### Author:  [@Bongopete](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bongopete)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/5 "2026-03-09T19:12:32Z")
No. How do you do that?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/6 "2026-03-09T19:26:57Z")
See the linked thread by @LyricsLover .
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/stamping-a-track-to-show-cover-when-playing-windows-media-player/70845/7 "2026-03-16T19:27:43Z")
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