Audio MP3 id3 thumbnail tagging

[BillD]

Is is possible to allow get_iplayer to add the thumbnail image to MP3 iPlayer files in the same way that it does for the TV MP4 files. Similarly, the other audio formats should be tagged the thumbnail image.

On related issue, with the thumbnail downloads for the MP4 files is it possible to get the MP4 thumbnail tagged, but not keep the thumbnail as separate file. This should be an optional because not all software supports reading of thumbnails in MP4s.

Thanks.

Bill.

[linuxcentre]

Yes if you can find a simple open-source cross-platform tool that can retrospectively add a thumbnail into an mp3 file. I couldn't. And I didn't want to add a load of perl mod dependancies for this.

[BillD]

I've had a quick look. Found:
id3lib http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/ which is a library.
id3v2 http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ which uses id3lib.
id3ted http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3ted/ and http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~muennich/id3ted/. Appears to be UNIX only.

So doesn't look too promising.

[linuxcentre]

In fact I'd do it using id3v2 but that doesn't support adding thumbs.

[BillD]

id3ted http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3ted/ appears to be a development of id3v2. Close examination suggests that it may not use id3lib http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/, but instead uses TagLib http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html. There might be some suitable programs using TagLib which are cross platform.

EDIT: Just noticed that TagLib has Perl bindings.

[james]

I'm using a python program called EyeD3. Works pretty well.

http://eyed3.nicfit.net/

[linuxcentre]

I'm using a python program called EyeD3. Works pretty well.

http://eyed3.nicfit.net/

Is there a win32 version?

[james]

Sorry. Not sure.