# \[X\] Cover Art gets bigger in kb when importing from clipboard
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [November 26, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422 "2009-11-26T13:24:34Z")
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422/1 "2009-11-26T13:24:34Z")
Hi,
I noticed that cover art gets bigger in size (more than twice) when I import it from Clipboard rather than tagging it directly from external sources or from a local file.
It seems to me, that the imported JPGs are far more compressed and that by importing them to clipboard and importing to MP3Tag they are blown up to a bitmap and compressed to a lesser degrade.
I had a look at the files in irfanview and made some tests with loading and saving jpgs.
Irfanview has a default compression rate of 80 % when saving jpgs. When I used this default rate the covers nearly kept their original size. When I changed this to 100 % - which blows up the original JPGs - I got nearly the size as with mp3tag.
So I think mp3tag should save the files from the clipboard with a higher compression rate to keep them in a similar size than the original. I would suggest 70 to 80 %.
In many cases it is not possible to tag directly from external sources, because the cover is not found. So I often take an external seek (ie. Album Art Downloader), and copy the found cover to the clipboard. Saving this to a local file and importing this files to mp3tag I think takes too much time.
Therefore I would appreciate it, that the clipboad behaviour would be changed.
Because I used the clipboard in many cases in the past, I think I have a lot of MP3s that have grown bigger than necessary.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422/2 "2009-11-26T19:04:16Z")
If you want to store exactly the same cover, please don't use the clipboard functions. The image in the clipboard is stored as DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) and Mp3tag creates a JPG from this while pasting.
Using JPG at a lower compression rate is not an option, since it implies quality loss (which would then indeed be considered as a bug).
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### Author:  [@joppe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/joppe)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422/3 "2010-10-15T12:07:05Z")
how about when you copy the album art in mp3tag, you not only send it to the clipboard as a dib, but also hold it in application memory as a jpeg for if the user pastes it to another track rather than to some other unrelated software?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cover-art-gets-bigger-in-kb-when-importing-from-clipboard/9422/4 "2018-12-28T14:27:58Z")
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