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jasonbullrich
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February 24, 2026
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album artwork not showing on my music library

  • February 24, 2026
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Album Artwork is in a folder on desktop marked Album Artwork.jpg. Somehow, I have to include this folder in the pathway! Oh, the PATHWAY!! 
When I do create a pathway it says access to the shared folder is denied check username and password. 
when I updated my music library one piece of artwork transferred. I can't figure out why that worked and none of the rest worked… Help

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Best answer by jgatie

If you are using a separate file for album artwork, there needs to be a <filename>.jpg file inside the folder the album is in.  For example:

If the album “Abbey Road” is in the following directory:

/My Music/Beatles/Abbey Road/

Then there needs to be a file with the Abbey Road artwork (ex. “AbbeyRoad.jpg”) in that directory.

 

The other option is to embed the artwork in each track using a tool like MP3Tag. 

8 replies

jgatie
jgatieAnswer
February 24, 2026

If you are using a separate file for album artwork, there needs to be a <filename>.jpg file inside the folder the album is in.  For example:

If the album “Abbey Road” is in the following directory:

/My Music/Beatles/Abbey Road/

Then there needs to be a file with the Abbey Road artwork (ex. “AbbeyRoad.jpg”) in that directory.

 

The other option is to embed the artwork in each track using a tool like MP3Tag. 

jasonbullrichAuthor
Avid Contributor I
February 24, 2026

Thank you. It's beyond my level. It pulled one piece of artwork through and as far as I know the other file types are the same. I've lost some songs on music library. Non compatible file types. No wonder music libraries are dying. It takes patience. I've just spent four days loading artwork onto my 600 albums.

Think Sonos have had enough of me now. The last guy said they’re not trained to help me further. I think that’s probably because of the necessity for third party tools. The artwork was on Sonos on Windows...

User117655
User117655
Prodigy II
February 24, 2026

For local music libraries on Sonos, album artwork must be in JPG, PNG, or GIF format, with an ideal resolution of 600x600 to 1024x1024 pixels.

If not embedded in the music files, the image file must be named folder.jpg or cover.jpg and placed within the specific album's folder.

Embedded album art will take precedence over folder level files.

    jasonbullrichAuthor
    Avid Contributor I
    February 26, 2026

    I've loaded mp3tag and it's brilliant, tedious but brilliant. There are 17 out of nearly 600 albums that mp3tag can’t load (purchased, protected and normal AAC files). It's created its own folder for that so at least I can work on that later. The others are Dolby Atmos which my system doesn't recognise. Time for an upgrade, I think.

    Thanks for your help, oh and if you now how to get round those few AAC files, do tell.

    Cheers

    Jay

    User117655
    User117655
    Prodigy II
    March 2, 2026

    .aac generally does not support metadata tagging (like .wav) which is probably why mp3tag will not load them.  Folder level artwork will be needed for these files or you could convert to another format or wrap in a tag supporting container like .m4a.

    If you are looking at conversion I can recommend dBpoweramp which will also give you a file level metadata editor to use alongside mp3tag.

      jasonbullrichAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      March 8, 2026

      Thank you, I managed to complete the task. I'm missing around 900 songs. About 10% of my music library. It’s Dolby Atmos mostly and I'm fine with not being able to play those songs directly unless I upgrade to an Arc Ultra/ Era 300s. 
      ive just bought a pair of Era 100s. 300s were too big for my room and couldn't bring myself to ditch the Playbar. I'm now a semi-streamer. Times are a changin'

      Jay

        MoPac
        MoPac
        Headliner III
        March 8, 2026

        .aac generally does not support metadata tagging (like .wav) which is probably why mp3tag will not load them.  Folder level artwork will be needed for these files or you could convert to another format or wrap in a tag supporting container like .m4a.

        If you are looking at conversion I can recommend dBpoweramp which will also give you a file level metadata editor to use alongside mp3tag.

         Most WAV files can be tagged.  When I find the rare WAV file that will not take the album art tag I convert it to FLAC.  That rare WAV file that will not take the album art tag will also NOT take the Album Artist take.  Most of my music files are WAV.

        jasonbullrichAuthor
        Avid Contributor I
        March 8, 2026

        At the moment Ive managed to get all the artwork over. If I do a library update o Sonos I will sometimes lose them as they’ll suddenly split or go to a different file name. Thanks for the advice.

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