'using ffmpeg to convert flac to alac with cover art

I have seen a few discussions on this but none of them give the answer I was hoping for. I am trying to convert flac to alac while preserving all of the tags and the embedded cover image. I know we can manually set a cover image by passing a separate image file to ffmpeg.... but how do I use the one embedded in the flac file? dbpoweramp does this automatically, but I would rather use ffmpeg so that I can automate my workflow with a bash script.

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Solution 1:[1]

Fixed by adding a source that has a newer version... sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 ...And using @logan command... ffmpeg -i input.flac -c:v copy -c:a alac output.m4a

Thanks

Solution 2:[2]

ffmpeg -i input.flac -c:v copy -c:a alac output.m4a

Solution 3:[3]

I was unable to get the jonathon ppa to work on my rig so you can use "-vcodec copy " "$FILE" -vcodec copy -acodec alac "$NEW_FILE" to copy the image over to the new file.

However, I do see that file names with "()" sometimes don't convert. I don't get an error in my script it just moves on. without the copy. Would be nice if anyone know how to fix that.

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Solution 1 Chris
Solution 2 llogan
Solution 3 MB13

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