# \[X\] 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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#### 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")

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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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