[Vorbis] Ogg Vorbis and Images

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Mon Sep 3 05:48:06 PDT 2012


On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:32:52AM -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Hello List, archives don't look very busy ...
> 
> I'm interested in putting art into Ogg Vorbis files.
> This is for a project I'm working on with small local bands.
> 
> I'm attempting to help get them more exposure by (with permission) 
> distributing their music, especially recorded live from shows they do 
> where they are allowed to record it.
> 
> We are going with Ogg Vorbis frankly because I'm a Linux nut and it 
> doesn't have any (known) patent issues etc.
> 
> We may also be starting an icecast broadcast but that's future.
> 
> Anyway, it appears to me that Ogg Vorbis does in fact support album art 
> but doesn't make it as easy to embed as flac or lame do, is this so?
> 
> I was hoping that oggenc from the flac would carry it over but it 
> doesn't seem to.
> 
> I'm using CentOS 6.3 with an aoTuV libvorbis and updated vorbis-tools -
> 
> http://yum.domblogger.net/dblog/6/x86_64/libvorbis-aotuv-b6.03-2.el6.dblog.x86_64.rpm
> 
> http://yum.domblogger.net/dblog/6/x86_64/vorbis-tools-1.4.0-0.el6.dblog.x86_64.rpm
> 
> Am I just missing something obvious?

I am not sure about oggenc carrying it over from flac, but you can give
a tagger such as kid3 a try. It does support METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, the
recommended way to embed cover art in ogg vorbis files. I am sure many
others do so too.

https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisComment#Cover_art


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