Embedding artwork with FFmpeg during FLAC to ALAC conversion

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How does one embed artwork during FLAC → ALAC conversion?

ffmpeg -i track.flac -acodec alac track.m4a

transfers metadata but not artwork.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

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I think FFmpeg can't do that – M4A files store metadata in a strange way compared to FLAC, or MP3, or OGG. You can, however, use AtomicParsley as detailed in this answer to a very similar question. In summary:

ffmpeg -i input.flac -vn -c:a alac output.m4a cover.jpg
AtomicParsley output.m4a --artwork cover.jpg --overWrite

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

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answered Jan 29 '13 at 22:02

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Embedding artwork with FFmpeg during FLAC to ALAC conversion

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