What if my file has several images?

You get one: the picture tagged Front Cover, or the first picture in the file if nothing is tagged as the front. Back covers, booklet scans and artist photos are not returned separately — for those you need a desktop tagger like Mp3tag or Kid3.

What if the file has no artwork at all?

You get a clear message saying no artwork was found. Nothing is written and nothing is downloaded.

The preview says the file 'declares' a different type than it is. What does that mean?

The MIME field in a tag is free-form text the writing tool chose, and it is often stale — 'image/jpg' instead of 'image/jpeg' is common. We identify the image from its actual bytes and name the download from that, and mention the mismatch so you know the tag is untidy.

It says the picture block isn't an image. Why?

ID3 and FLAC both allow a picture block to store a URL instead of image data, flagged with the '-->' MIME. Some taggers also stash formats we can't identify there. Rather than hand you a file named .jpg containing a web address, we tell you what the block actually holds.

Which image formats can come out?

JPEG, PNG, GIF and WebP — the four we can positively identify from their magic bytes. JPEG and PNG cover nearly all real-world cover art.

Does this change my audio file?

No. This endpoint reads only. Your upload is parsed on our servers and deleted straight afterwards; the copy on your machine is never opened for writing.

Is there a size or rate limit?

100 MB per audio file, and 30 uploads a minute from one IP address.

Extract album artwork

Pull cover art out of your audio files

Read the cover image out of an MP3 (ID3 APIC frame) or FLAC (PICTURE block) and save it. The stored bytes are handed back untouched, so a 1500×1500 JPEG comes out as that exact JPEG — not a re-encode of it.

Input

MP3 or FLAC

with an embedded cover

Output

The original image file

JPEG · PNG · GIF · WebP

Free · no accountMP3 + FLACNo re-encode

Extract artwork

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Extract artwork

Drop your MP3 file here

Nothing is stored — the file is parsed and deleted straight away.

or drop your file here

MP3 · max 100 MB

A file can hold several pictures (front cover, back cover, artist photo). This tool returns the first one stored in the file and shows its label above, so you can tell which picture you got.

See it in action

Cover art in, original image out

Audio file with APIC / PICTURE

What you provide

🎵 album_track_01.mp3

Pictures in the tag:
  Front Cover   image/jpeg   428 KB  ← returned
  Back Cover    image/jpeg   391 KB
  Artist        image/png    112 KB

album_track_01-cover.jpg

What you receive

🖼  album_track_01-cover.jpg

  1500 × 1500 · JPEG · 428 KB
  declared as "image/jpg", actually JPEG

Saved byte-for-byte from the tag —
no resize, no recompression.

Step-by-step guide

How to use this tool

01
Upload your file
MP3 or FLAC. Drop a .flac while the MP3 tab is active and the page switches tabs for you rather than posting it to the wrong endpoint.
02
We find the cover
A file can hold several pictures — front, back, booklet, artist photo. We return the one tagged Front Cover, or the first picture if none is tagged.
03
Preview it
The image is shown with its real pixel dimensions and byte size, so you can spot a 300×300 thumbnail masquerading as album art before you use it anywhere.
04
Save the original
Downloaded as your-file-cover.jpg (or .png / .gif / .webp), with the stored bytes written straight to disk.

Key features

Why use this tool

No re-encoding

We hand back the exact bytes stored in the tag. Nothing is resized, recompressed or colour-converted, so the file you save is the file the tagger embedded.

Front cover, not just the first one

Picture blocks are unordered. Returning whichever came first would hand you the back cover on any file that stores it before the front — so we look for the Front Cover type and only fall back to the first picture when there isn't one.

Honest about broken tags

The MIME a tagger writes is free text and is sometimes wrong, or is the '-->' sentinel meaning the block holds a URL rather than an image. We check the actual bytes and say so, instead of rendering a broken preview and offering a download named .jpg that isn't one.

Common use cases

Who this tool is for

Library cleanup

Check what resolution your albums are actually carrying — a lot of older rips embed a 200-pixel thumbnail.

Visual assets

Recover a cover for a podcast feed image, a video thumbnail or a DJ display when the original artwork file is long gone.

Re-tagging

Pull the cover out of one file so you can embed it across a whole album with the Embed Artwork tool.

Questions answered

Frequently asked questions

No. The image is extracted verbatim — the same bytes that were stored in the tag are what you download. If the embedded image was a 1500×1500 JPEG, that is exactly what you get, including its original compression.