[Vorbis] Ogg Vorbis and Images

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 23:55:21 PDT 2012


On 5 September 2012 02:14, Alice Wonder <alicewonder at shastaherps.org> wrote:
> On 9/3/2012 5:48 AM, gt wrote:
> *snip*
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I may see if easytag can do it, kid3 wants to pull in all kinds of qt
> stuff. It looks like easytag is gtk based, which is better for me as I
> don't have qt libraries or KDE stuff installed.
>
> Would be nice if there was a switch for vorbiscomment like there is for
> metaflac, I am not really interested in GUI taggers, hopefully easytag
> (if it works) can work from a shell script.
>
> Ah well, eventually vorbis-tools will be updated to handle images.

For a command line tool that does this:
https://github.com/imalone/oggflacblock
Or direct from (n.b. BSD license):
https://raw.github.com/imalone/oggflacblock/master/oggflacblock.pl

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail//vorbis-dev/2012-April/020276.html

I'll put a link on the wiki later.

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imalone
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