The -disposition parameter fails silently if the wrong stream is selected.įFmpeg has an open issue on this functionality. ffmpeg -i input.m4a -i image.jpg -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -disposition:v:1 attached_pic output.m4aĪ similar command is also given as an example in the ffmpeg docs, however be careful that the example is for adding covers to videos but not audio files.

It is possible with ffmpeg by specifying the attached_pic attribute on the image source via the -disposition parameter. It seems that 1 file has 2 input formats (1 m4a, 1 image2), I think ffmpeg should be able to do the same thing by itself instead of using a separate tool to add cover image, but I haven't figure out how. I tried mp4art, after adding the cover, the information from FFmpeg is like this: stream 0, timescale not set Mp4art from mp4v2 can also do this: mp4art -add cover.jpg track.m4a Finally, the script renames newly created files to remove -temp- part from their filenames. Note, that the script will remove all the files which do not coontain temp in their filename. So we will need to remove the original files afterwards. There is a flag -overWrite which is supposed to change this behavior, but for some reason this doesn't work for me. AtomicParsley creates temp files with embedded media in the same folder.

It assumes there is folder.jpg file in the current directory.

A little bit extended version for embedding album art with atomicparsley.

Ffmpeg copy artwork