[FFmpeg-user] Removing a metadata tag from a specfic stream

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 12:01:30 EET 2021


Despite other incorrect information. FFmpeg can handle album art for .flac
file just fine.

It just can not alter metadata of attached art file IIRC.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:29 AM Thibeau <vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yea I suppose I could just remove the art entirely and that works, but
> could ffmpeg get the art out of the songs? I wouldn’t know how to get them
> and out. But if it’s possible I might be able to just reattach them
> afterwards and see if the tag hasn’t gone or maybe edit while the image is
> separated.
>
> > On 6 Feb 2021, at 00:56, MediaMouth <communque at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2021, at 12:21 PM, MediaMouth <communque at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The obvious approach (targeting it as the first video track) didn't
> work:
> >>> ffmpeg -y -i '29 My Girl.flac' -metadata:s:v:0 comment= '29 My
> GirlB.flac'
> >>> ffprobe '29 My GirlB.flac'
> >
> > One possibility would be to simply remove the album art (you could save
> it externally beforehand).
> > That will, in turn, get rid of the associated metadata "comment". I
> tested it.  It works.
> > From what I understand ffmpeg (and for that matter Adobe) can't handle
> album art for .flac files.
> >
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