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Adding picture frames to id3v2 from the commandline

By fluffy (Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 02:42:55 PM EST) (all tags)

Hey, has anyone had any luck adding an APIC (Attached PICture) frame to an mp3 in a UNIX-based operating system (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) from the command line?

I have a bunch of mp3s with cover art images as separate .jpgs which would be a pain in the butt to do manually in e.g. iTunes, but neither id3v2 nor PyID3 want to do things like, oh, work.

Seems like it should be pretty simple, but I don't feel like coding anything to do something so simple. All I can find are stupid GUIs, though, which doesn't help since iTunes already has a perfectly good GUI for this stuff. I'd just like to be able to do it from the commandline.

I suppose I could do it via AppleScript but that still seems like a pain in the butt...

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