# \[X\] remove cover does not remove the tag field COVERART **URL:** \ **Category:** No Bugs\ **Created:** [February 23, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743 "2017-02-23T17:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/c6cbf5/32.png) [@usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/usamike)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/1 "2017-02-23T17:26:29Z")
hi, i passed one year to search where that problem came from in my music manager (helium music) When a mp3 file came with the tag "COVERART" (see in id3 tag from windows properties), my music manager software fails and crashed whereas i always use mptag to clean my tags. but, i just discover now why. The feature "remove cover" of mp3tag forgets to remove the field COVERART (and another one i can't see the name, sorry) here a screen capture of a mp3 properties where i just used the "remove cover" feature : [![](https://3-t.imgbox.com/INOaUYrx.jpg)](http://imgbox.com/INOaUYrx) Even, when i upload a new cover art album with mp3tag, this two fields are not updated , why ? thanks for help please. Best regards Mike ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/54013bd3fa9de256921d3c0f5fea25948d0a9ec5.jpg) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/2 "2017-02-23T19:17:58Z")
How do you delete a cover? The easiest way to do it is to select the files and right-click on the cover in the tag panel and select "Delete cover" and save the modification. The other field that your program shows is the cover\_mime\_type which shows the type of an embedded cover. It is a little puzzling that your program shows the binary of a picture as characters. ---
**Author:** ![usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/c6cbf5/32.png) [@usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/usamike)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/3 "2017-02-23T20:21:17Z")
i do exactly like you said. The other fields should be removed too when i saven my modification! But mp3tag let them there ! that is the problem ! i don't want them! i am not the one who put that fields (i guess it is the plateform where i buy the digital). Because they contains a 600x600 cover art album, i always remove the original cover (with mp3tag) and replace them by my own 1000x1000 that i reupload into the mp3 (using mp3tag too). Even when i upload it, mp3tag forget to update then (even i'd prefer it will erase them and only keep the normal picture inside the tag). for me it is a bug that mp3tag forget to take in charge of them while i delete the cover or i update it. if you want, i can send you a exemple of such mp3. ---
**Author:** ![usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/c6cbf5/32.png) [@usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/usamike)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/4 "2017-02-23T20:28:27Z")
i did a test, i just try to remove the old original one (which was a jpeg embeded picture) and upload a PNG new one. look at it, mp3tag forget to update the fields ! but it got my PNG file into. so , the bug is produced! ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0f72ecc85ceb99e8c338ca3fd5be7a6ced0ee7aa.jpg) ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0f72ecc85ceb99e8c338ca3fd5be7a6ced0ee7aa.jpg) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/5 "2017-02-23T20:29:29Z")
> [@usamike](#): > > i do exactly like you said. > > The other fields should be removed too when i saven my modification! But mp3tag let them there ! that is the problem ! i don't want them! > ... If MP3tag apparently does not delete tags then you should check which tags you let Mp3tag read, write and delete. The proper setting would be: read and delete all, write only V1 and V2. Esp. APE tags are a problem. If you have these in a file, get rid of them. If this is not the case, check the file's integrity with mp3val and/or mp3diags. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/6 "2017-02-24T13:37:00Z")
> [@usamike](#): > > ... if you want, i can send you a exemple of such mp3. Go ahead. ---
**Author:** ![usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/c6cbf5/32.png) [@usamike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/usamike)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/7 "2017-02-24T15:13:24Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > Go ahead. here is a trim (3 seconds) of a file with that kind of problem [https://1fichier.com/?3tkupi7mv0](https://1fichier.com/?3tkupi7mv0) ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/8 "2017-02-24T15:47:18Z")
> [@usamike](#): > > here is a trim (3 seconds) of a file with that kind of problem > > [https://1fichier.com/?3tkupi7mv0](https://1fichier.com/?3tkupi7mv0) You have 2 tag-fields (coverart and covertartmime) in your mp3. As far that I know these tags belong to OggVorbis. Maybe an orginal Ogg-file was recoded as mp3 and the tags were taken from these ogg-file. The cover-file you see in Mp3Tag has nothing to do with theses tag-fields. As you have a mp3 now you don't need these tags. Just take the extended tag-menue in MP3Tag (ALT-t) and delete these tags. But because you mention a crash from your player: I noticed that your embedded cover has xmp-metadata. Till now I had no such experience but I heard that some players may have problems with metadata in embedded pictures. Perhaps you should strip the pictures from metadata before you embed them in the mp3-file with Mp3Tag. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/9 "2017-02-24T15:57:17Z")
> [@usamike](#): > > here is a trim (3 seconds) of a file with that kind of problem You only have V1 and V2 fields in the files. That is good. You have several user-defined fields in the file TXXX/COVERART which is shown as COVERART in MP3tag extended tags TXXX/COVERARTMIME which is shown as COVERARTMIMETYPE in MP3tag extended tags These fields have nothing to do with embedded covers and their mime type. Additionally you have a cover APIC with the size 2034250 and the status cover. This represents the actually embedded picture. The user-defined fields do not get deleted if you remove the cover - which is perfectly possible with MP3tag. Also, these fields do not get updated as they have nothing to do with the embedded picture. So: whatever software wrote these 2 fields I don't know but I would say that they are absolutely superfluous. You can delete them. To sum it up: I can see no bug for MP3tag. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-remove-cover-does-not-remove-the-tag-field-coverart/18743/10 "2018-12-28T18:51:07Z")
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