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Is it possible to manually set a cover for a given MP3 file instead of letting the program automatically fetching it from the web?

I have noticed that I can alter every other field to my liking before saving the tags to file, but I can't manage to set a custom cover.

If it makes any difference, I'm using the Linux version on openSUSE 13.2.

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  • Have you seen this unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84915/… ?
    – Toine42
    May 23, 2015 at 8:02
  • So you might want to have different cover art for songs from the same album? May 23, 2015 at 8:44
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    No, I just want to manually set it instead of letting the program doing it automatically. I don't necessarily need a different cover for every file
    – Sekhemty
    May 23, 2015 at 8:46
  • Have you seen this documentation? May 23, 2015 at 9:39
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    Thanks but I want to add covers to my files, not to the site database
    – Sekhemty
    May 23, 2015 at 9:41

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I just found a workaround: you can go to "Options...", "Cover Art", then uncheck all coverart providers from the list, and click OK. Now you can still autotag the audio files, but Picard will not download any cover picture; from now on, you can drag and drop your own cover picture to the little black square on the bottom right corner (the one with a CD icon on it), then hit CTRL+S to save. It's not very practical, but it works.

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You can add custom artwork by dragging and dropping an image file (preferable JPEG or PNG, but I think TIFF and GIF would work, too) to the cover art box.

This is a somewhat hidden option. Proper custom cover art support for Picard has been requested for a while, but so far nobody really took up the task.

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  • Tried it but it doesn't work; when I save the files, the program doesn't keep this change, and retains the downloaded cover.
    – Sekhemty
    Jun 16, 2015 at 20:52
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    While this works, image can't be applied to cluster and has to be separately added to every track.
    – user198350
    Oct 17, 2017 at 4:44

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