Searching for a command line tagging tool for mp3 and ogg that supports pictures

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I am searching a command-line tagging tool that supports ogg- and mp3-tagging and allows to add a picture to the tags.

Currently I use lltag but that does not support pictures. dagger is the tool I use before but it is lacking picture support as well.

Best Answer

For MP3, try eyeD3, found in this SO answer.

  --add-image=IMG_PATH:TYPE[:DESCRIPTION]
                      Add an image to the tag.  The description and type
                      optional, but when used, both ':' delimiters must be
                      present.  The type MUST be an string that corresponds
                      to one given with --list-image-types. If the IMG_PATH
                      value is empty the APIC frame with TYPE is removed.

For Ogg, there's vorbiscomment. It doesn't support loading image files out of the box, but a cover art tag in Vorbis is just an image file encoded in base64, stored in the COVERART tag and its mimetype in COVERARTMIME - something like 

coverart=$(base64 $jpegfile)
vorbiscomment -a -t 'COVERART=$coverart' -t 'COVERARTMIME=image/jpeg' $infile $outfile
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