# Cover art on FLAC files **URL:** \ **Category:** MusicBrainz Picard\ **Created:** [April 23, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718 "2026-04-23T20:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/owl_00)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/1 "2026-04-23T20:10:12Z")
Hi, Does somebody know how to add cover art on FLAC files when saving them on a Mac ? The cover appears on the program when scanning but not in the saved files, except in a different .jpeg. ---
**Author:** ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/2 "2026-04-24T00:15:18Z")
Have you enabled saving images to tags? You can separately configure to save images to tags and/or as separate files. ---
**Author:** ![owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/owl_00)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/3 "2026-04-24T11:40:19Z")
Yes its enabled, I tried to reset the settings on default but still doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/4 "2026-04-24T11:55:58Z")
How do you determine that it doesn’t work? What happens when you load the tagged file into Picard, drag them to the left pane and select it. Does it show cover art for that file? ---
**Author:** ![owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/owl_00)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/5 "2026-04-24T14:31:15Z")
It does show the cover on Picard at the bottom right, but not in my finder after saving it except as a different .jpeg file; nor on a usual player as VLC. Is it possible for the image to appear on every single track file in the finder and various players ? ---
**Author:** ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/6 "2026-04-24T17:38:03Z")
I don’t think Finder supports FLAC files. See also > **[Can't display Flac album art in finder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-display-flac-album-art-in-finder/67642)** > > I can see album art in MP3TAG with both flac and aiff formats and it shows up in finder in the aiff format but not flac. I can't figure out why or how to fix it. Maybe not an MP3TAG issue but thought I'd post here to see anyone has any insights. ... There is a tool that seems to allow one to extract the cover art from FLAC files and set it as the file’s icon: [GitHub - pbsvk/FLAC-File-Icons-with-Embedded-Cover-Art-on-macOS: macOS Quick Action to Set FLAC File Icons from Embedded Album Art Automatically extract embedded cover images from .flac files and set them as custom Finder icons using a right-click Quick Action. A lightweight workaround for macOS’s lack of native FLAC thumbnail support. · GitHub](https://github.com/pbsvk/FLAC-File-Icons-with-Embedded-Cover-Art-on-macOS) But that’s just something I found after a quick search. I don’t use a Mac and haven’t tested it. ---
**Author:** ![WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/windowslover/32/94887_2.png) [@WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/WindowsLover)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/7 "2026-04-24T18:02:33Z")
@owl_00 macOS is like Windows. It likes its own formats. You can convert FLAC to ALAC and it’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@owl\_00](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/owl_00)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cover-art-on-flac-files/814718/8 "2026-04-28T12:05:52Z")
Thanks for your advices ! I’ll try by converting formats.