Winamp Plug-in Details

Winamp Staff Review

Display album covers or other pictures in the video window
Uses id3 tag info to locate cover image for currently playing song, and then displays it in the Winamp video window. If the id3 tag info isn't complete, then Cover TAG will search by other means (file name with jpg extension, folder.jpg, etc.).

User Reviews

SO GLAD it's working again with v5.51+

Dec. 27th, 2007

I've used this plugin for years & couldn't imagine Winamp without it...even the new cover art features in v5.51 can't compare IMO. So I was frantic, trying to figure out why it suddenly stopped working.Thanks Nohart1, for contacting the author & posting the updated dll. That was my next step, but you beat me to it.Also a BIG THANK YOU to Joerg (author) for updating Cover & Tag...I was starting to think this plugin was abandon ware, since it hasn't been updated in quite a while. I even sent a wish list of additional features to Joerg a year ago. They were never implemented, but at least he replied to my email, which is more than you can usually expect.Now that the plugin is active again, I'll repost my 3 feature requests, in the hopes that Joerg may consider them (hint, hint).1) Seperate the comments from other fields with a blank line so all the text doesn't run together in the video window.2) Make better use of the video window space by offering an option to wrap the comment text around the cover art (instead of the default of right alignment in a straight vertical column).3) An option to use a different color for the comments, so they are seperate & distinct from the other text.
- Terry Korensek

Simple, does just what it designed to do

Dec. 25th, 2007

Cover&TAG is here:http://www.angelfire.com/blog/richter/Update:The author has kindly allowed me to post a link to update Gen cover.dll.http://rapidshare.com/files/79000763/Gen_Cover.zipAfter installation of the plug-in v3.30 replace Gen cover.dll to fix errors. The file is usually located here: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
- No Hart

Great plugin!

Dec. 20th, 2007

this was just what i was looking for. an easy way to view cover art and ID3 tags in a window.but this does not work in Winamp 5.51. might need to wait for an update to the plugin.
- Meez Meez

Great, I was looking for just this!!!

Nov. 27th, 2007

If you take all the work to embed the cover into your mp3 files you want to see it if your run Winamp.This plugin is just doing this and your able to display some additional information!Hope the creator is going to continue the development!Keep up the good work!
- Bruno Baumgartner

Love it....

Aug. 4th, 2007

Exactly what I was looking for. An essential plug in to display cover album art until Winamp can support that (like many other audio players already do....ie: Musicmatch). Hope that's on the wish list. Looks great.
- Kevin Kryvenchuk

Too bad...

Apr. 2nd, 2007

...the tag format can't be customized, looks a bit chaotic the way it is at the moment (Version 3.3.0). Besides that, a very nice plug-in.
- Abi S.

Newer Version

Feb. 23rd, 2007

I found that a newer version available at http://www.angelfire.com/blog/richter/ fixes the resizing bug I mentioned previously, so I will now give it five stars.
- Christopher Brammer

Great (one minor bug)

Feb. 21st, 2007

This is exactly what I as looking for.There was only one minor bug I saw: If you resize the picture or start a new song the background is not refreshed/blanked out first. Basically the old picture and text become the new background and so you can see the old text and picture underneath the new text and in the background around the picture.Also it would be nice if you could make CoverTAG the default instead of the visualizer.I am using Winamp 5.32Thanks for the Plug-in.
- Christopher Brammer

Great plugin

Feb. 17th, 2007

Hi Jörg,I would very much like to see that you update this plug-in to a full unicode standrad. With Winamp 5.33 supporting unicde I would love to see the artitst & song titles shown correctly in unicode as welll (I like a lot of Ukrainian and Russian artists who all use Cyrillic). Other than that this is a terrific plugin; Winamp should consider taking it over for the full bundle.
- az frankie

Spot on...

Dec. 11th, 2006

Excellent piece of kit - integrates very slickly with Winamp. I had a problem at first with desktop showing through the video window, but changing the background colour in the .ini file fixed that. I store my music on my server and use a syncronised folder on my laptop to listen to music on the road (must be the heaviest MP3 player around) and I had a problem with garbled Album, Title and Artiste text when playing tracks in the syncronised folder. I looked through the other reviews and found a link to ver 3.3 (thanks to Super Freak) which fixed the problem.
- Alex Tippitt

Excellent plugin - but.....

Nov. 5th, 2006

Hi,I've been using this plug in for some time to display folder.jpg images in my music collection.I populate each album folder with a high res image so i get something similar to the madonna one in the download image (although i actually have my video window set a bit larger).The problem is that something (windows or wmp maybe?), keeps writing over my own folder.jpg files with much smaller and very low resolution folder.jpg files with the 'hidden' attribue set. at the same time the files 'albumartsmall.jpg', 'AlbumArt_{76D1B037-A778-4D37-927C-128AE98F2405}_Small.jpg and AlbumArt_{76D1B037-A778-4D37-927C-128AE98F2405}_Large.jpg appear. If I put the hi-res image back, then sometime later, it gets automatically overwritten again.Its very annoying. Anyone any ideas how to stop this??Using Winamp 5.24Using Cover art plugin 3.2.2ThanksMark
- Mark Edwards

DL the 3.3 not the 3.2!

Aug. 16th, 2006

That's what I was lookin' for... for 6 hours... a useable cover plug-in... I had to try all that crapped ones, thanx.Now the latest v3.3 should be listed here, not the older v3.2, since that one is buggy with the v5.25 WinAmp. Thanx for the link someone metioned here prior to me... uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the latest. Brrr, this winamp site should be refreshed occasionally...
- Super Freak

just a small bug i've found

Aug. 16th, 2006

Can't handle "Folder.jpg" files correctly with capital "F" as the first letter: makes them double.I had to rename hundreds of Folder.jpg to folder.jpg, this could be annoying without a batch file renamer software.
- Super Freak

ESSENTIAL!!!

Jun. 11th, 2006

TO ME COVER TAG IS A MUST HAVE PLUG-IN!!! THANK U MR RICHTER! ;?))
- matef matef

Simple, and that's good

May. 21st, 2006

I tried numerous other plugins to try and get what this plugin delivers. No-nonsense cover display of the album being played. If you are using Winamp 5.2 you may have trouble with this plugin not rendering the video window correctly. Until the author reposts the fixed version (3.3) here, you can get it here:http://www.angelfire.com/blog/richter/
- Chris Hughes

Essential for my Winamp

May. 9th, 2006

This is one of my must have plug-ins for my Winamp..It runs flawless for my Winamp. For those having problems with it, try getting the latest version. It should solve most of the problems.
- Soon Hong

Great !!! BUT ...

Mar. 15th, 2006

It's a great plug-in for me. BUT I found it CAN'T work with some other languages plug-in (such as Traditional Chinese, Sim. Chinese) after several tests in these days. Just set language to English will be okey if the error "Fatal Error: Winamp Video Window not found" occurs.
- Chiachou Hsieh

Skipping Tracks

Mar. 7th, 2006

A very good cover display, but I've noticed that in some cases the track following a video is skipped and tha track after it plays next instead. This didn't happen prior to using this plugin so I think it must be the cause - but nobody else has mentioned it so maybe not. It does not happen with all videos and I've been unable to see any connections between those it happens with.Also, I sometimes have a song playing and clear the playlist completely (including the playing songs entry) leaving the song playing. On adding anything back to the playlist, the top tracks cover is displayed even though it is not yet playing.
- Adam Cadamally

Go get the new version 3.22

Jan. 31st, 2006

http://www.angelfire.com/blog/richter/
- James Hsiung

This plugin rocks

Jan. 15th, 2006

Still have a problem with winamp v5.112 : the tag is not displayed (or read) but the cover from the folder is OK.
- Ben GoTen

Good, but only supports mp3 tags

Dec. 27th, 2005

Lack of support for other audio formats tags prevents me giving it a higher rating-- wma, aac are the two most important. The world is moving beyond mp3. Time for winamp plugins to move as well.
- Steven Quinlan

Doesn't work without major effort

Dec. 15th, 2005

This plugin is a great idea and probably works really well for people who understand how to write and configure things. But for anyone who is just a regular computer user must stay far away until this plugin installs and works without needing to edit config files. I myself am not one of the people who can do this sort of thing with experience. So I can't recommend anything but to keep your sanity and stay away from this unfinished plugin which might turn out to be good one day when it is really finished and made to work immediately after installation like all good software is supposed to do.
- David Marshall

typo!!!

Dec. 6th, 2005

Yes, it's great, but it doesn't work anymore! I have Winamp 5.111 and when trying to install it it says, "Couldn't open the file: "C:\Program Files\Winamp\\Plugins\Gen_Cover.dll" for writing.Notice the "\\" before plugins? I bet that's the problem. Please fix!!
- Michael Crook

Great after some trying

Nov. 27th, 2005

When I downloaded the plug-in from the Winamp site, it didn't work, even after several restarts, re-installation, changes in the params etc. After reading the reviews, I found out one user downloaded the plug-in from the site of the author directly: http://www.angelfire.com/blog/richter/I likewise did, and it worked immediately!!! Btw, I use winamp 5.094. 5 stars for the plug-in even if the installation took a while. Keep up the good work! I love Winamp!!!
- Guy Calomme

Stopped working

Oct. 7th, 2005

This plugins works great, but since i updated to Winamp 5.10 it stopped working. So I downgraded to 5.08 and now it works fine.
- Jan deGroot

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