How to add cover art to a FLAC file in the command line
[1] http://lifeofageekadmin.com/adding-cover-art-to-flac-file-from-command-line-and-gui/
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This is essentially a repackaging of a Life of a Geek Admin post[1], but I decided to re-phrase it and leave out the Mp3Tag stuff.
It is a pain to change music metadata. Usually, VLC fares well, but especially with FLAC files I often see it just not working™.
It'd be great to change my metadata from the terminal without much hassle. And indeed, that's possible.
To change FLAC metadata in the command line, you need the `metaflac` tool.¹
I'd install it by installing the `flac` package in openSUSE Tumbleweed. It seems to be the same in Arch, so probably on other distributions too.
Since FLAC is cross-platform, this also works on Windows, BSD, and macOS.
The magic command is:
`image path` may not be a relative path like ~/Pictures, instead use /home/konomo/Pictures²
That's all there is to it.
I did manage to see a weird quirk: being that the cover art isn't overwritten if there is already cover art present. Maybe that is just a bug in my version, though.
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¹ If you know a different tool that can do the same thing, please tell me.
² If your username is konomo that is.
tags: music
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