Here's an example converting an MP3 file with a video track containing album art to an Ogg file with Opus encoded audio and Theora encoded video: $ ffprobe -hide_banner '01 - State of Grace.mp3' But I don't like to use them since they both have poor input decoding support.Īnd about FFmpeg, I know I can encode my songs to OPUS, OGG or AAC, and then in the next step, embed the album art in them, but that's not a good solution.įFmpeg version 4.4 automatically supports embedding album art into Ogg containers with the Theora video codec (see ' Ogg codecs' on Wikipedia for a list of supported codecs, although they may not all be supported by FFmpeg). Unlike FFmpeg, they both gave me output files that retained the album art. Things gets more weird when I use opus-tools (to encode to OPUS) and used vorbis-tools (to encode to OGG). But they all drop the album art too.įfmpeg -y -i '/storage/sdcard1/Music/01 Adam Foroush.m4a' -c:a libopus -b:a 128k -af aresample=48000:resampler=soxr:precision=33:cheby=1:dither_method=shibata -vbr on -compression_level 10 -frame_duration 60 -application audio '/storage/emulated/0/FFMPEG/01 Adam Foroush.opus' So instead of M4A and OGG, i tried any other container, including. I've figured out that I can't encode my songs to M4A and OGG formats, unless I add -vn flag, which removes the album art. I tried to encode to any lossy format, including AAC, OGG and OPUS. If I wanted to add a title to my video here is the command: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -metadata title='The video titile' -c copy output.mp4Īs i used copy no encoding was done and this process happened instantly.Everytime I encode my songs to lossy formats, the output file keeps the tags (title, artist, album, etc.), but drops the album art. With X being the type of metadata being added, you can find this information in the tables below. Using FFmpeg to add this metadata to a media file is a simple task. Depending on a video or audio container it can store various metadata or information like title, description, year, author, episode, album, track etc.

Ffmpeg copy artwork