How to add album art with ffmpeg?

Question

I've been stuck to add album art on mp3 files.

I've already researched and googled this issue but haven't found a solution yet. The ffmpeg documentation recommends this script to add image (album art) to mp3 :

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -i cover.png -c copy -map 0 -map 1 -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (Front)" out.mp3

Source from: http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#mp3

But it doesn't work. My console output is:

Unrecognized option 'c'
Failed to set value 'copy' for option 'c'

I looked for another solution and got this: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2221:

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -i cover.png -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c copy -id3v2_version 3 -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (Front)" out.mp3

This returns the same output:

Unrecognized option 'c'
Failed to set value 'copy' for option 'c'

Anybody can help me, please?

nb: I use ubuntu 12.04 and ffmpeg version 0.8.6-4:0.8.6-0.

Thanks.

Answer 1

With Recent version,

ffmpeg -i in.mp3 -i test.png -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c copy -id3v2_version 3 -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (front)" out.mp3

Use -map to associate input stream to the output
Use -c copy to directly demux/remux
The -id3v2_version 3 is what is missing in your command line. Note that that wil write an IDV2.3 but you can ask for a 2.4 (-id3v2_version 4)

with the -id3v2_version 3 option the -metadataoption will be well interpreted

Note: the metadata comment is case-sensitive.