# WAV Cover not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868 "2016-04-19T16:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![atheneum](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@atheneum](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/atheneum)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/1 "2016-04-19T16:55:59Z")
Love that we finally have WAV tagging capability... Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get the covers to work. They just don't show up either on the file icon or in Windows Media Player when I play the WAV files. Always works just fine with all of the other formats. What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/rijkstra/32/22_2.png) [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/2 "2016-04-19T17:36:41Z")
Do you mean the album art? My simple %artist% - %title% doesn't show up with tag names in the last version of Winamp, but comes across as **ID3v2.3 (RIFF ID3v2.3) UTF-16** in foobar2000 and shows up correctly in WMP. Since the last release of Winamp v5.666 of December 2013 shows it only as Basic Info, I'm wondering how old this convention is. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/3 "2016-04-19T17:45:50Z")
> [@atheneum](#): > > ... either on the file icon or in Windows Media Player when I play the WAV files. > ... Could you show the specification that says that teh WMP can show albumart from WAV files? Anyway: you could store the good ole folder.jpg file in the folder and see if it does anything for the display of cover art im WMP. I doubt that the Explorer will do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/rijkstra/32/22_2.png) [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/4 "2016-04-19T23:00:13Z")
> [@Rijkstra](#): > > ... Winamp v5.666 of December 2013 shows it only as Basic Info, I'm wondering how old this convention is. Winamp can only read the basic INFO from an Mp3tag written WAV file and can't write anything. The only data I can see are ARTIST, TITLE, COMMENT and COVER (external only). Other fields are greyed out. ---
**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/5 "2016-04-30T16:47:34Z")
> [@atheneum](#): > > Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get the covers to work. I've tried this on a fresh Windows install today and it seems like WMP is not able to read cover art from the tag. Even when adding cover art from within WMP, the cover is not added to the tag but is stored as an external file within the directory of the WAV file. In case someone else has more information on this, it would be great to know. I'd love to have some documentation from Microsoft, where they document the capabilities of WMP. Kind regards – Florian ---
**Author:** ![COBI](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@COBI](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/COBI)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/6 "2020-07-25T05:31:02Z")
Has this ever been fixed? I'm seeing the same problem as the original post, in that the album cover art displays for MP3 and other formats in WMP, but not with WAV files. ??? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/7 "2020-07-25T06:54:50Z")
> [@COBI](#): > > Has this ever been fixed? Who do you think should fix it? > [@COBI](#): > > I'm seeing the same problem as the original post I would say that if you encounter the same thing as the OP then it has not been fixed. And as this is a player issue - ask Microsoft what they intend to do about it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-cover-not-working/17868/8 "2026-02-09T12:26:12Z")