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How does one embed artwork during FLAC → ALAC conversion? 

ffmpeg -i track.flac -acodec alac track.m4a

transfers metadata but not artwork.

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I think FFmpeg can't do that – M4A files store metadata in a strange way compared to FLAC, or MP3, or OGG. You can, however, use AtomicParsley as detailed in this answer to a very similar question. In summary:

ffmpeg -i input.flac -vn -c:a alac output.m4a cover.jpg
AtomicParsley output.m4a --artwork cover.jpg --overWrite
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  • Is there a way to compel ffmpeg to dump the image file without converting it, no matter the format? (give us a png if the stream is png, and a jpeg if the stream is jpeg) – retrography May 23 '15 at 18:38