# The fetchart plugin lists tracks with art work as as \_no art found\_

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/the-fetchart-plugin-lists-tracks-with-art-work-as-as-no-art-found/1596>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/the-fetchart-plugin-lists-tracks-with-art-work-as-as-no-art-found/1596 "2020-12-02T04:48:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![halloleo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@halloleo](https://discourse.beets.io/u/halloleo)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/the-fetchart-plugin-lists-tracks-with-art-work-as-as-no-art-found/1596/1 "2020-12-02T04:48:38Z")

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I have some tracks in my library the `fetchart` plugin lists as _no art found_, despite the fact these tracks have embedded art work?

How can I list only the files which really have no art work?

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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:** [December 2, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/the-fetchart-plugin-lists-tracks-with-art-work-as-as-no-art-found/1596/2 "2020-12-02T12:59:42Z")

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`fetchart` doesn’t try to get art that’s embedded in files; it looks on the filesystem for image files or fetches images from the Internet.

The beets _database_ does not track whether files have images embedded in their tags. You could try using the [embedart](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.9/plugins/embedart.html) plugin… for example, `beet extractart -o /dev/null` might be a way to indirectly get an indication about which files have images embedded already.

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**Author:** ![halloleo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@halloleo](https://discourse.beets.io/u/halloleo)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/the-fetchart-plugin-lists-tracks-with-art-work-as-as-no-art-found/1596/3 "2020-12-03T12:52:53Z")

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Thanks Adrian. Makes sense.

I actually found an other way to check whether a file has already embedded art: via the [info plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.9/plugins/info.html).