C++ Taglib Cover Art from MPEG 4 files

Question

As a side/fun project I'm building an audio player (Qt application), and one of the hurdles is displaying embedded cover art. With *.mp3 files this ended up not being too much of an issue, mainly thanks to the example provided here:

static QImage imageForTag(TagLib::ID3v2::Tag *tag)
{
    TagLib::ID3v2::FrameList l = tag->frameList("APIC");

    QImage image;

    if(l.isEmpty())
        return image;

    TagLib::ID3v2::AttachedPictureFrame *f =
        static_cast<TagLib::ID3v2::AttachedPictureFrame *>(l.front());

    image.loadFromData((const uchar *) f->picture().data(), f->picture().size());

    return image;
}

However, how can embedded cover arts be extracted for MPEG 4 files (particularly *.m4a)?

Étienne · Answer 1 · 2016-09-22T13:10:18.187

Here is how to do it:

TagLib::MP4::File f(file);
TagLib::MP4::Tag* tag = f.tag();
TagLib::MP4::ItemListMap itemsListMap = tag->itemListMap();
TagLib::MP4::Item coverItem = itemsListMap["covr"];
TagLib::MP4::CoverArtList coverArtList = coverItem.toCoverArtList();
if (!coverArtList.isEmpty()) {
    TagLib::MP4::CoverArt coverArt = coverArtList.front();
    image.loadFromData((const uchar *)
    coverArt.data().data(),coverArt.data().size());
}

image is from the Qt QImage class, and "file" is simply a char* variable.

C++ Taglib Cover Art from MPEG 4 files

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