Album art remover
Remove the cover art from an MP3
An embedded cover image is its own file tucked inside the recording, and it carries its own hidden metadata, sometimes a camera, a date, even GPS. This takes out just the artwork and leaves the rest of the tags, the title, artist and album, in place. Drop an MP3 in below to see its cover and remove it.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your recording is never uploaded or stored.
Reading your recording…
Remove the cover art, then download the file:
Your original is never changed. This downloads a new, clean copy.
What this removes
It drops the picture frames from the MP3's ID3 tag, the cover art and any other embedded image, and keeps every other tag exactly as it was. The audio itself is never re-encoded, so the sound is untouched. To clear the written tags too, the title, artist, comments and dates, use the full audio metadata remover, or edit them one by one with the audio tag editor.
Why cover art is worth removing
People treat album art as decoration, but an embedded JPEG or PNG is a full image file, and if it came straight off a phone or camera it can still hold the location, device and timestamp its own EXIF recorded, none of which has anything to do with the audio. Stripping it removes a leak that the written tags do not show.
Only MP3, for now
This works on MP3, where the artwork lives in the ID3 tag and can be snipped out on its own. FLAC, M4A and Ogg store cover art in their own containers, which cannot be rewritten losslessly in the browser yet. For those, the audio metadata remover still drops the art (by re-saving the file), it just clears the other tags at the same time.
Your file stays on your device
The recording is read and re-saved entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and the clean copy is built locally the moment you click download. Your original file is never changed.