How can I add/remove album art metadata from mp3s?

Depends on your software. iTunes will let you copy & paste into the artwork field. Or remove by cutting.

I’ve been using Winamp 5. If I need to use a separate program, then so be it.

There are dozens of ID3 tag-editing programs for Windows, I can’t recommend any one in particular though. iTunes is nice as it will make editing tags easy, and it functions as a player and organizer. I have some tips here.

Use Alt + 3 in Winamp to view the ID tags, then just uncheck the boxes and save.

Thanks steveprutz, but I don’t want to delete all of the metadata, just the album art.

I had to learn more than I wanted to about id3v2 tags myself the other day. I don’t know if you’re a programmer, but if you are…

You can download this python library called pytagger (easily found via google) and use it to rewrite the id3v2 tags. What you want to do is find any and all id3v2 frames with frame type “APIC”, remove them from the list of frames, and rewrite the file. It would look something like this:

i = ID3v2(“input_filename.mp3”)
i.frames = [f for f in i.frames if f.fid != “APIC”]
i.commit_to_file(“output_filename.mp3”)

I haven’t tested that but I think it should work if you can get the rest of the machinery hooked up. Hope this helps.

Or copy & paste in iTunes :)