# Cover art for mp3 files
**URL:** https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148
**Category:** Misc
**Created:** [September 1, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148 "2014-09-01T19:52:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@slowjoe007](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/slowjoe007)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/1 "2014-09-01T19:52:17Z")
Hi,
in “Now Playing” or “Browse” I cannot see cover art for the mp3 files I put in /music/MusicBox although I placed a file named “AlbumArt.jpg” next to them in the same folder. I also tried with “folder.jpg”, but no luck either.
Do mp3 necessarily have to include cover art in the meta data of the mp3 files?
Regards,
slowjoe
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### Author:  [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/2 "2014-09-02T11:05:26Z")
Pi musicbox uses [last.fm](http://last.fm) for cover art. I don’t believe Mopidy has complete support for local cover art but you can see some progress on this issue at [https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/809](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/809)
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### Author:  [@slowjoe007](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/slowjoe007)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/3 "2014-09-02T11:33:59Z")
Thank you for your reply.
Interestingly, [https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/809](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/809) asks for support of embedded cover art ( in ID3 tags, or meta data as I put it). For me this works perfectly well. I downloaded a song (single mp3 file, cover art in ID3) that I purchased on Google Play and stored it in /music/MusicBox.
It means some significant effort to store cover art within my mp3 files, but definitely that is something I can do.
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### Author:  [@slowjoe007](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/slowjoe007)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/4 "2014-09-02T11:40:59Z")
Not showing cover art from corresponding files in the same directory seems to be an issue of the web UI only.
I installed MPDroid on my smartphone and connected it to my PI MusicBox. Songs that I play this way, are shown with the correct cover art on my smartphone display. So somehow the images must be loaded and even transferred over the network.
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### Author:  [@adamcik](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/adamcik)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/5 "2014-09-02T11:52:30Z")
As stated in the bug, there is currently no code in the local file handling to get albumart to the clients. Especially over the MPD protocol. In other words MPDroid is likely being smart about things and pulling it from a source such as the [last.fm](http://last.fm) API on it’s own.
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### Author:  [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/6 "2014-09-02T13:40:07Z")
MPDroid does exactly that, in fact it uses a whole load of internet cover art sources. Apologies if my reply was confusing in regards to Mopidy’s current support.
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### Author:  [@slowjoe007](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/slowjoe007)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/cover-art-for-mp3-files/148/7 "2014-09-02T18:06:11Z")
Thank you for your replies.
I can confirm that Pi MusicBox loads the album covers from [last.fm](http://last.fm). While this is a great for popular songs, it probably won’t work well for unknown local artists or audiobook tracks.
On github Thomas mentioned extension “mopidy-local-sqlite”, which I sounds promising for my use-case. I’ll try to get it to work on my Pi MusicBox.