# Where is the embed icon option?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 29, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004 "2025-03-29T15:07:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/1 "2025-03-29T15:07:49Z")
Same as title. Where is the embed icon option?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/2 "2025-03-29T15:11:03Z")
Don't know what you mean.
If you want to embed a picture, see the right-click functions of the picture area in the tag panel
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/3 "2025-03-29T15:17:44Z")
Google and others keep mentioning make sure embed film poster is checked. Call it Cover Art. Or whatever, but I do not see any option. What I see is the general icon Windows uses when I browse the folder using Windows Explorer.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/4 "2025-03-29T15:22:49Z")
So it is a Windows Explorer problem?
The displayed picture in WE depends on the symbol size.
If you want to use MP3tag to embed pictures - see the documentation on how to customize the tag panel
> **[Tag Panel – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/tag-panel/#cover-art)**
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> Customization options for the Tag Panel, including adding, removing, hiding, and rearranging of fields. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Does
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> Google and others keep mentioning make sure embed film poster is checked
come from a AI function where the AI phantasizes about product features without deeper knowledge of the application?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/5 "2025-03-29T15:22:55Z")
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> make sure embed film poster is checked
There is no such checkbox.
You can drag & drop cover art into the selected tracks.
From the [documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/getting-started/main-window/#cover):
Contextual menu for cover art:
> **[Cover Window Context Menu – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/menus/cover/)**
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> Right-click context menu of the cover window at the bottom of the Tag Panel. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Or you can use an [Action](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/import-cover/) to import existing cover art files.
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/6 "2025-03-29T15:31:15Z")
And I have hit save multiple times to emphasize, please save and show the film poster in Windows Explorer. But no such luck. I did right-click Remove cover, Add cover, and save, over and over but no poster shown in Windows.
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/7 "2025-03-29T15:33:57Z")
start Mp3Tag up and it shows the cover art in the lower left window under the directory.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/8 "2025-03-29T15:35:52Z")
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> but no poster shown in Windows
As far as MP3tag's influence goes: has the picture been embedded?
Could you show us a screenshot of a single selected file and the extended tags dialogue Alt-T?
And everything following that verification is a Windows Explorer problem: does it support the tag format of those files? What type of picture does it like?
And if you know that then MP3tag can probably help you to fulfill these requirements.
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/9 "2025-03-29T15:49:00Z")
thank you for the help. When I press save, I'd expect any program to report and stop at errors. Hilite them to the user. I only see "Saving..." popup and disappear quickly. So what should users assume with programs of that nature?
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/10 "2025-03-29T15:51:55Z")
[https://watch.plex.tv/movie/toy-story](https://watch.plex.tv/movie/toy-story)
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/11 "2025-03-29T15:56:58Z")
And I have tried JPG, PNG, WEBP. Are my steps correct? Should this work\> This a 4K UHD MKV movie.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/12 "2025-03-29T16:00:16Z")
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> I'd expect any program to report and stop at errors. Hilite them to the user.
The problem may be that there are no errors in the present program but that the next program has problems to interpret the file format.
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> So what should users assume with programs of that nature?
Assume that everything went smoothly.
The screenshot from MP3tag shows that a picture is embedded.
It also shows that the files are in mkv format - do you have any further specifications that suggest that the Windows Explorer supports metadata in mkv files?
If nothing else helps, try the external file folder.jpg
I found this external thread on the problem to get Windows explorer to show thumbnails:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/yw6s32/how\_to\_show\_mkv\_thumbnails\_in\_the\_windows/?rdt=38073](https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/yw6s32/how_to_show_mkv_thumbnails_in_the_windows/?rdt=38073)
The external thread looks to me as though the WE does not natively support MKV metadata but that you have to have a plugin/extension.
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/13 "2025-03-29T16:04:53Z")
Thank you. Reviewing that now. But, as far as I can remember, and my memory is fading, once an application sets the icon Windows should honor it. Windows opens the file, extracts the icon, and displays it in Windows Explorer. But check Plex Media Server too. . .
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/14 "2025-03-29T16:06:23Z")
Even with the mentioned Icaros 3rd-party-tool, I can't get it to work in my Windows (10) File Explorer. I can see many of the additional properties thanks to Icaros, but not the embedded image.
VLC (my mediaplayer) can show it in Ctrl + i (Mediainformation):
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/15 "2025-03-29T16:17:19Z")
And Plex Media Server does show images, all from its own pulls. Not showing what I embedded. That may be a Plex setting. At least it is nice to look at 🙂 But I do like software to honor my settings, my choices. Need to review the Windows Explorer issue. Did see a recent comment about Windows will honor MKV icons. . .
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/16 "2025-03-29T16:18:03Z")
Thank you for confirming it is embedded.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/17 "2025-03-29T16:20:07Z")
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> Did see a recent comment about Windows will honor MKV icons. . .
The easiest way would be to compare a file where it works with one where it does not.
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/18 "2025-03-29T16:28:03Z")
At the moment I have two cases it does not work. Windows, and Plex Media Server. By chance, know the setting to tell Plex to pull the icon from my TOY\_STORY.mkv file?
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### Author:  [@r2d2Proton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/r2d2Proton)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/19 "2025-03-29T16:30:08Z")
I am using Windows 11
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-is-the-embed-icon-option/68004/20 "2025-03-29T18:02:28Z")
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> once an application sets the icon Windows should honor it.
This is referring to the application icon for the default program allocated by file type. This does not apply specifically to media files and replacing the metadata artwork.
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> By chance, know the setting to tell Plex to pull the icon from my TOY\_STORY.mkv file?
There is a setting in Plex to "prefer" embedded artwork. I can't recall where in the options that can be set but it is there. The challenge is once Plex has built its library it is very difficult to get it to update it from external changes.
> [@r2d2Proton](#):
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> Need to review the Windows Explorer issue.
Explorer has very limited support for mkv. And even less for mkv metadata.
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