Home / ubuntu / Questions / 809175
Accepted
andrew.46
Asked: 2016-08-08 01:50:55 +0800 CST

Embedding album art in m4a files?

  • 772

I have a directory of m4a files together with a single album art image named cover.jpg. How can I 'embed' this album art image into the m4a files using the command line?

command-line

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The most efficient way is to use AtomicParsley and a bash 'for' loop. Install AtomicParsley on any version of Ubuntu as follows:

    sudo apt-get install atomicparsley

    Then change to the directory containing the m4a files and run the following:

    for i in *.m4a
do
AtomicParsley "$i" --artwork cover.jpg --overWrite 
done

    And now your m4a files have the album art embedded and you can safely delete your album art image. This will work for all versions of Ubuntu...

    • 6

  2. Covers can be added with the TagEditor project:

    tageditor -s cover=ju.jpg --max-padding 100000 -f ki.m4a

    To remove:

    tageditor -s cover= --max-padding 100000 -f ki.m4a
    • 1