COVERTAG(1)

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✨ COVERTAG(1) — audio file image tagger energy ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the covertag manual page 💅 it lives in the Audio File Image Tagger section of the manual, and it's literally here to give your audio files a glow-up with new artwork. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

covertag — update audio file image metadata

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

covertag [OPTIONS] <track 1> [track 2] ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: covertag takes a bunch of image files plus a list of audio files, and it updates those audio files with the new artwork. that's it. that's the whole main character moment. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — shows you a list of options and then exits. very demure, very mindful 🙈
  • -r, --replace — this one erases all existing images and replaces them with whatever files you specified. like a full closet cleanout, no takebacks 💀
  • -V, --verbose=VERBOSITY — controls how much output you get to see. pick between 'normal', 'quiet' and 'debug'. choose your own adventure, bestie 🌈

🎀 IMAGE OPTIONS 🎀

  • --front-cover=FILENAME — an image file of the album's front cover 💖
  • --back-cover=FILENAME — an image file of the album's back cover ✨
  • --leaflet=FILENAME — an image file of one of the album's leaflet pages 📖
  • --media=FILENAME — an image file of the album's media 💿
  • --other-image=FILENAME — an image file related to the album 🌸

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Replace all images in track.mp3 with a PNG file

covertag -r --front-cover=front.png track.mp3

Add several JPEG images to track.flac

covertag --front-cover=front.jpg --back-cover=back.jpg
--leaflet=page1.jpg --leaflet=page2.jpg --leaflet=page3.jpg
track.flac

Remove all cover art from track.wv

covertag -r track.wv
note that last one — -r with no image options at all means every single image gets yeeted. it's giving artwork-free era 🧚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

audiotools-config(1), audiotools.cfg(5), cdda2track(1), cddainfo(1), cddaplay(1), coverdump(1), coverview(1), dvda2track(1), dvdainfo(1), track2cdda(1), track2track(1), trackcat(1), trackcmp(1), trackinfo(1), tracklength(1), tracklint(1), trackplay(1), trackrename(1), tracksplit(1), tracktag(1), trackverify(1)

like, the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Brian Langenberger

and that's the whole page, babe — this icon of a manpage was dated 2025-03-10 and belongs to the COVERTAG(1) manual, Audio File Image Tagger edition. slay, go tag some tracks 💅🎀

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