[ale] Changing ID3 APIC tag, anyone know...

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed Oct 15 13:33:26 EDT 2008


On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Before hunting for a specialized tool, did you try
> 
> sed -i "s/image\/jpg/image\/jpeg/" *.mp3

I don't think sed works on binary files.

> Also, instead of storing images in the mp3 files could you just have one image in each directory (I'm assuming this is album art)? That works for any software I've tried.

I'm not creating the MP3 files, I already have them (they're podcasts) and
they start out with images stored in the file.  (Yes it's album art.)  And
it's not software, it's a Sansa View MP3 player.

Anyway I ended up hacking eyeD3 to add the feature.



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