[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg does not add meta tags to mp2 files

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 13:40:21 +0200, James Darnley wrote:
> On 2015-07-25 13:33, Kimio Miyamura wrote:
> > Now I'm curious about why -metadata artist="Jody Marie Gnant" does not affected to the output...
> > 
> > Does anyone know why?
> 
> Because nobody has written that feature yet.

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2012-August/008633.html

It might not even be possible in classic terms with MPEG I/II (or PS)
containers. I think the original poster pointed out that ID3v2 tools
would add such "metadata" to MP2 files as well, but I think that just
happens to work, and is certainly not supported by ffmpeg.

Moritz