How to convert MP3 to YouTube-allowed video format

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I have many MP3 files on my website and I have decided to upload them to Youtube, but unfortunately for me, YouTube does not allow me to do that. It requires video format only.

How can I convert these MP3s to video and add same set of images (one or more images) to the resulting video format.

I need to do this in bulk, not individually, I have hundreds of MP3 files.

It can be either a Windows-based or Linux-based application.

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There's some info about using FFmpeg to encode audio with a still image for YouTube, here, and some advice for doing bulk conversions in Windows, here.

As for encoding, I find that this works:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -i pic.jpg -i audio.mp3 -c:a copy -shortest -c:v libx264 output.mp4

The -c:v libx264 encoding considerably reduces the output file size as mentioned at: https://superuser.com/a/1472572/128124

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Have you looked at MediaMonkey?

I've just converted an mp3 to ogg (as I knew I had mp3's with meta data) and the meta data (Title, Artist, Genre, Album, Year, Track no.) got copied. I've also converted it back to mp3 and the meta data is preserved that way too.

It will also do batch conversions. Just add your ogg files to the library, select them all and then Tools > Convert Audio Format works on all the selected items. I've recently discovered that you don't have to add the tracks to your library. Media Monkey's built in browser can look at files directly.

It comes with a time limited mp3 encoder (30 days if I remember), but you can replace it with an unlimited one by simply updating the dll.

How to convert series of MP3 to a M4B in a batch

To concatenate the MP3s to an M4B, you could use ffmpeg. Download a recent version, then run:

ffmpeg -i "concat:input0.mp3|input1.mp3|input2.mp3" -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 64k -f mp4 output.m4b

Your ffmpeg might not have fdk_aac enabled; if that's the case, you can try using

-c:a libfaac (high quality)
-c:a aac -strict experimental (decent quality, but use higher bitrates)
-c:a libvo_aacenc (rather bad quality)

See the AAC encoding guide for more info.

If you want to use neroAacEnc instead, you could use:

ffmpeg -i "concat:input0.mp3|input1.mp3|input2.mp3" -f wav - | neroAacEnc -if - -ignorelength -q 0.3 output.m4b

Neither of these will add chapter metadata, I'm afraid.

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