July 24, 2007
How to Edit & Embed Album-art for your MP3s
This article shows you how to edit ID3 tag and embed album-art covers for your mp3 players (Ipod, Zen, Zune, Media Players, etc). First, you need an ID3 tag editor. I use Mp3Tag Editor, it can batch edit, rename tag/files, add album-art covers, and create playlist.
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Click here to download Mp3Tag Editor (ver 2.38 supports ID3 v1/2/2.3/2.4 and APE v1/2).
Table of Contents
- Setting options
- Edit tags
- Convert tags to filenames
- Adding album-art covers
1. Setting options
Go to Tools > Options. Go to Mpeg under Tags dropdown list. Match the check boxes with the below image.
2. Edit tags
Select all or individual mp3s and edit the Title, Artist, Album, Year, Track, and Genre fields. When done press File > Save tag (Ctrl+S).
Note: < keep > means you have selected multiple files and each files have different tag value.
3. Convert tags to filenames
Select Convert > Tag – Filename (Alt+1). This automatically renames all files to values of the tags. %track%, %artist%, %title% are dynamic variables for each tag.
Tips: This is an optional step, renaming filenames will make your directory neater.
4. Adding album-art covers
Select View > Extended Tags (Alt+T). Choose the image file you want to assign as the album-art cover.
Note: It is highly recommended to resize your album-art cover images to 200×200 or 100×100 pixels. Big images will take more time to load in your mp3 players and will deplete your mp3 player’s battery life more easily.
You are done! Add editing ID3 tags and add album-art covers is quite easy. Eventually, you might want to turn off prompting confirmation messages (after save, and after change) by going to Tools > Options > Messages. Too much prompting is quite distracting right? There are other functions that you might want to explore further. Have a nice day!
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Jay Youngs said,
January 20, 2008 at 10:29 am
Where do you go to change the album art size to 200×200 or 100×100????
David Monroy said,
December 31, 2009 at 7:37 pm
To resize pictures, one very easy and fast tool is (for all office useres) to right click on the file, “open with” –> “Microsofot picture manager” then on this fast and easy program you just click in “edit picture”, rezise and there you find cool features to change the size in pixels, as a percentage and other posibilities, it’s easy, but make sure to copy your files properly so you don’t damage the original (it has happened before)
hope it’s somewhat useful…
MrE.M.R said,
April 27, 2012 at 5:20 pm
http://www.shrinkpictures.com
try this link!! :)
SullyPanda said,
July 8, 2012 at 12:54 am
I read the whole topic and there are no answers to your original question:
How to resize embeded images.
More, how to do it to a lot of mp3s….
There are some devices that only allows a maximun of “x”kb size, or a x b pixels…
cococokie said,
January 28, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Hello jay, you can use graphic editing software like Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp to edit the image size. Hope this helps. ;)
Kirill said,
February 15, 2008 at 7:54 am
Hello,
You don’t need to use any external software to resize the cover artworks. My piece of software can do this transparently. If you are interested to save some of your time while tagging please take a look here:
http://www.tagtuner.com
The automatic resizing can be adjusted in the Options.
SullyPanda said,
July 8, 2012 at 12:52 am
No, you’re app does not resize embeded images.. nor it show its size, nor dimensions
alex said,
April 28, 2008 at 8:14 pm
yeah, well, yours has 29.95 reasons to choose a different program (not including tax) such as Mp3Tag Editor, which has no reasons to choose other programs.
Admin said,
June 4, 2008 at 12:33 am
Great article. I use Mp3tag as my ID editor and think it is a brilliant software. Makes life so easy !!
However, I don’t agree that 100×100 or 200×200 is good enough though but that’s just my view :)
i use a free software (Photofiltre => http://photofiltre.free.fr/) or HyperSnap to do my re-sizing… but I insist on 500×500 size
:) :) :)
cococokie said,
June 17, 2008 at 7:51 pm
The bigger the image size, the more space it needs, hence it will make your mp3 slightly larger in size. Of cause, if u don’t mind the size, go ahead :)
Richard Farrar said,
July 16, 2008 at 1:04 am
From the research I’ve done, 300 x 300 pixel images seem to be a common “standard”, but if you’re doing it for your own music collection, then it’s entirely up to you.
ego said,
January 22, 2009 at 10:15 am
if your not using an ipod not too sure how slow it makes them but i get my album art from google images type name artist and album i have never missed one and i have a lot of albums i resize them to 500 x 500 as they display in wmp 11 the right size when album art is enabled as view
you can go to just under 600×600
best way to do it but you have to see full size view of the art in google not the thumbnail copy that then go to mp3 tag and select change directory fouth button from left select album folder in tools you can open this up to the sam folder each time saves a bit of clicking then selecct album hightlite all songs right clice select extended tag right clk where the cover gos if you already have one then select remove cover then selcet add cover and thy screen comes up you should of already copied the big art from google paste then highlite then click open and select ok the tracks will embed then
couple of tricks when searching album art open your media player and edit artist or album title then copy name and paste into google saves time typing or getting spelling wrong
if you want to add big art to wmp and you can only find smaller or larger pics then when you are paste the art into the folder paste it then before u select right click it and select edit then resize in percentage to around 500-580 x the same hint are 300×300 if you select 200 percent you get 600×600 you want to be slightly smaller so select 190 percent
200 x 200 selcet 250percent
make sure u look at the kb in the art some are very high i use 20-100 if i can 50 is good quality remember though if you make it bigger the kb enlarges hope this helps
ego said,
January 22, 2009 at 10:19 am
if you dont want to use itunes then get a program called tune bite its also good to make ringtones at any part of the song i prefer wmp as it auto searches for music added in dedicated location
ego said,
March 15, 2009 at 9:11 am
not many replies in this forum
Tamilazhagan said,
July 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm
super sir ….. how mayny day`s i have search this
cococokie said,
July 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm
hi ego,
Thanks for the addition tips and contributions!
krsm21 said,
August 30, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Hi cococokie,
thanks for this post! helped me loads! now noone has to hate that icon saying “no album art available”!
:D
cheers!
kokojojobobo said,
September 9, 2009 at 11:43 pm
all problems are solved with this sofware!!! thank you so much!!
Thankful Reader said,
May 12, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Thanks alot for the guide very helpful, always suprises me how the free software is the easiest and best at the job we need
Guna said,
July 24, 2010 at 1:22 am
thanks a lot..
Nureni Jimoh said,
October 4, 2010 at 2:29 pm
This is simply wonderful! The software is exceptionally good and handy. Now i can organise my ipod content and album in my own order.
Thankful Reader said,
October 13, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Thanks for letting us know of this sleek and efficient software. :)
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October 30, 2010 at 10:06 am
i just wish that mp3 players could also have some 10 band equalizers and bass boost functions**`
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November 2, 2010 at 10:53 pm
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Tade said,
August 31, 2011 at 6:20 pm
“Big images will take more time to load in your mp3 players and will deplete your mp3 player’s battery life more easily.”
THIS.
Thanks for saying that. First I was going to add atwork, but now I changed my mind. Longer listening is more worth than see the atwork in your iPOD.
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March 4, 2012 at 12:47 am
Hi,
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Terry said,
March 10, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Okay, I dunno if I’m doing something wrong here… The first album I tagged an artwork to worked fine, but since then, every other album that I tag artwork to – no album cover shows up in windows explorer. Any Ideas?
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March 31, 2012 at 12:54 pm
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June 23, 2012 at 7:24 pm
hey dude pliz explain option no 3- Convert tags to filenames….
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Imran Ahmed said,
February 21, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Here is a free online tool to embed/change album art for your MP3 files:
http://www.tagmp3.net
Enjoy!
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Chinky aka N.I.T. said,
July 14, 2013 at 10:03 pm
I have been using this software for the last 2 years and I must say I’m more than satisfied with It. I primarily use It to add album arts to my mp3s. Though It is also very useful to edit the tags. When you select a song the embeded album art shows in the lower left corner. Just right click over it and select remove if you intend to add another Image or select extract if you want to edit the existing image.The extracted image go to the folder where you have saved the song. If you want to add another image save the particular image in 1:1 aspect ratio, i.e. square image. After getting your Image ready again right click on the album art box and now select add album art which takes you to the folder where the mp3 is saved. Preferably save your Image In the same folder. Just select the image and click save. Don’t forget to click save in the tool bar after every action.
For editing images I prefer PhotoShop. I usually use 500 x 500 image size. 300 x 300 also gives you a descent resolution.
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