[Abcde-users] Can not encode with cover to two output formats, possible bug in josh version?

[josh]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 at 17:15, Jose M Calhariz via Abcde-users
<abcde-users at lists.einval.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to learn abcde and I am chasing a possible bug on abcde
> v2.12.0.  Doing output to two formats (flac,mp3) and get cover art on
> both.  With extra -V in one of tries I tried:
>
> abcde -V -V -V -V -B -o mp3 1 && abcde -V -V -V -V -B -o flac 1
>
> The mp3 gets the cover art, the flac is not generated.
>

Off the top of my head, first up I would suggest trying to output both
at the same time:

abcde -V -V -B -o mp3,flac 1

if that doesn't work, try the explicit art download command

abcde -V -V -G -B -o mp3,flac 1

I'd also recommend bumping up to the latest version so we are working
with the same version:
wget https://github.com/poddmo/abcde/releases/download/2.12.1/abcde_2.12.1-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i abcde_2.12.1-2_all.deb

If that all doesn't help, I'd like to see any warning or other
interesting messages in the verbose output