ID3 Album Art / Cover Tag Field

Question

What is the field name for covers / album arts in id3 tags?

For eg. :

Title : title - TT2 - TIT2

Artist : artist - TP1 - TPE1

Album : album - TAL - TALB

Cover: ? - ? - ?

I hope somebody can help me...

Thx in advance!

Aloysius

Answer 1

The 'field' (id3 tag frame) name is APIC.

<Header for 'Attached picture', ID: "APIC">
Text encoding   $xx
MIME type       <text string> $00
Picture type    $xx
Description     <text string according to encoding> $00 (00)
Picture data    <binary data>

You can find more details here: http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0

Have a look at 4.15 Attached Picture

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