Tidy up podcast files
Fill in the episode title, author and year so the player list is easier to read.
Guide
Audio Metadata edits a music file's title, artist, album and year, and writes cover art into the containers that support it. The panel is called “Music tags”: a text field left empty is not written, and a cover can be dropped in as JPG or PNG; MP3, M4A and FLAC support cover art, and other formats are told plainly that only text tags can be written.
Updated 2026-09-103 min read
Audio Metadata edits a music file's title, artist, album and year, and writes cover art into the containers that support it. The panel is called “Music tags”: a text field left empty is not written, and a cover can be dropped in as JPG or PNG; MP3, M4A and FLAC support cover art, and other formats are told plainly that only text tags can be written.
Nothing here recompresses the sound. The implementation uses ffmpeg stream copy (-c copy) to rewrite container metadata only; MP3 gets ID3v2.3. When no new cover is chosen, a file that supports cover art keeps the one it already has.
| Input | Output | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| An untagged MP3 | Title=Episode 12, Artist=My Podcast, Year=2026 |
The audio bitstream is unchanged |
| An M4A plus a 1000×1000 JPG | Text tags written and the cover embedded |
The cover is written into the container as an attached picture |
Fill in the episode title, author and year so the player list is easier to read.
Embed a local JPG or PNG into MP3, M4A or FLAC before sharing it.
Correct only the album or artist that was wrong, without re-encoding the audio.
No. The implementation uses -c copy on the audio stream and only rewrites the container's metadata and optional cover.
The current panel only offers cover writing for MP3, M4A and FLAC; convert to one of those first and add it there.
The audio and the cover image are handed to ffmpeg.wasm locally in the browser and are never uploaded; the first use of the workbench downloads about 31–32 MB of ffmpeg core from the site's asset domain or jsDelivr.
Updated 2026-09-10
ID3 title, artist, album, year and embedded cover art; stream copy, no re-encoding, done in seconds
Everything runs locally in your browser; files are never uploaded to a server