# Manually adding artwork

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 16, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024 "2022-02-16T00:16:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024/1 "2022-02-16T00:16:24Z")

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In cases where `fetchart` is unable find artwork for an album, what’s the best way to add it myself? I’ve been copying the artwork into the album folder, naming it `cover.jpeg` and then updating the `artpath` with `beet modify -a` - is this the best way to go about it? It’s a bit of a pain to do (although I’m sure I could write a script to do it for me).

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**Author:** ![arogl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arogl/32/455_2.png) [@arogl](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arogl)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024/2 "2022-02-16T00:45:30Z")

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Once artwork is in the same dir as music, just run

`beet embedart albumartist:[regex] album:[]`

That is what I have used

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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024/3 "2022-02-16T00:53:03Z")

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I get a `No album art present` error for albums which have never had artwork when running `embedart`, but running `fetchart` with the `filesystem` source enabled followed by `embedart` works - thanks!

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/manually-adding-artwork/2024/4 "2022-02-16T16:11:32Z")

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Indeed! Running `beet fetchart` with an appropriate query is currently the way I do it. It might be nicer to have some kind of special-purpose way to give a specific filename to “attach” album art… or perhaps an option to the `fetchart`? Not sure.