[FFmpeg-user] Removing a metadata tag from a specfic stream

Thibeau vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 21:25:56 EET 2021


Here's the link to a file with all the metadata tags, the values of them
might slightly differ but nothing that matters.
https://ufile.io/bgunj34e (link is only valid for 30 days sadly)

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 17:28, MediaMouth <communque at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you post the actual media (or at least a sample version if there are
> ownership issues)?
> If yo can, I'll run a few tests.
>
> > On Feb 5, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Thibeau <vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi MediaMouth,
> >
> > I tried your command and had already tried it myself before. The output
> > file still contains the comment: Other metadata tag I think it isn't set
> to
> > empty beacuse it's not in the main stream but rather in the stream where
> > the cover art resides. For the full output see my original question
> output
> > hasn't changed.
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:57, MediaMouth <communque at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 5, 2021, at 3:48 AM, Thibeau <vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>> I'm trying to remove the comment tag which has the value Other but seem
> >> to
> >>> be unable to do so using ffmpeg.
> >>> I think it's because it's part of the stream that contains the cover
> art
> >> so
> >>> the comment belongs the cover art metadata not the global song
> metadata.
> >>> Any ideas what command I could use to remove this tag? .
> >>> Here's a pastebin of the outpot of ffprobe where I pointed an arrow
> >> towards
> >>> the tag I want to remove.
> >>> https://pastebin.com/wTiyFP9u
> >>
> >> Hi Thibeau,
> >>
> >> Try this...
> >> Copies file contents, changes 'comments' metadata to empty:
> >>
> >> ffmpeg \
> >> -i /path/to/source \
> >> -metadata comment= \
> >> -c copy \
> >> /path/to/dest \
> >>
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