ID3 Album Art Extractor

ID3 Album Art Extractor is a lightweight and portable application that can extract the album art from MP3 tracks and save it to image files.
Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop the program files in any location on the hard disk and just click the executable to run.
It is also possible to save ID3 Album Art Extractor to a USB flash drive or similar storage unit, to be able to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no prior installers.
What's more, the app does not create no new entries in the Windows registry, nor additional files on the disk without the user's consent, leaving the PC clean after removal.
The interface is based on a simple wizard where you can follow a few steps to get the extraction job done in no time. Batch processing is supported, meaning that you can fetch images from multiple tracks at once.
So, you can point out a directory with MP3s and optionally include subfolders, select the types of images to extract (e.g. first front cover from each file, all), as well as specify the output file name (JPG format). The app can be set to overwrite existing files.
In addition, you can restrict album art access by picking the full control and read only users or groups. There are no other notable options provided by this software utility.
ID3 Album Art Extractor has a good response time and immediately finishes extraction jobs without causing the operating system to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. We have not come across any issues throughout our evaluation. All in all, ID3 Album Art Extractor serves its purpose and can be used by anyone.