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How to use ffmpeg to add metadata to an AAC file without reencoding?

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I'm using ffmpeg to extract just the audio stream from a video file: This produces a clean audio file but without any metadata. To add metadata, ffmpeg has a command line option: This runs without error, but when the output file is checked with ffprobe, it has no metadata tags at all. If the output…

Error Output

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec copy audio.aac

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The goal was to produce an audio-only file from a video file without re-encoding and to introduce metadata recognizable by media players. The environment is Debian GNU/Linux. I'd like to thank @bootload for putting me on the right track to finding a…

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