# Unable to save cover art
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762 "2022-10-11T21:30:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@hb19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hb19)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/1 "2022-10-11T21:30:53Z")
whenever i go to save cover art, it doesn’t actually save it and change the file picture. instead it just says (1/2) below the picture, the first one is blank and the second one is the actual picture(i added a picture below), and the file stays the same. if i try again it just adds another picture, so it’ll say 1/3, but the 1st one is still blank and the file still doesn’t change. how do i fix this?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/2 "2022-10-11T21:40:33Z")
Could you please tell us the exact steps you use to add the cover and save it?
1.) You load one ore more files into Mp3tag
2.) ?
3.) ?
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### Author:  [@hb19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hb19)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/3 "2022-10-11T22:19:04Z")
i’ve tried 2 different ways
the first was after selecting the file, i clicked in tags\>extended tags\>add a cover\>save. i tried again but instead of hitting save i hit “OK” and the same thing happened where it added another cover but didn’t actually change the file.
then i tried just right clicking the blank cover, clicking remove cover so that only the 2nd cover was left, and then hit save. that worked on most of them but there’s still a couple of files where it didn’t change it.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/4 "2022-10-11T23:35:09Z")
It sounds like this file already has an image saved. But perhaps it is something in a format that mp3tag can’t display. So when you are adding this new file, they become 1/2 and 2/2.
If you care to share one example file that has this issue, perhaps this can be confirmed.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/5 "2022-10-12T05:23:21Z")
The first dump on the left only shows a size but no type or dimensions for the picture.
Could you check the picture file whether it is actually a picture file and preferably save it again with a graphics tool?
Also, try to delete that empty picture. And if that does not work then cut the whole tag and paste it again.
And just to be on the safe side:
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> 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 …
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unable-to-save-cover-art/58762/6 "2026-02-09T12:29:56Z")