Cannot embed cover art in more than one output format

[poddmo]

As reported by Jose M Calhariz on the abcde-users mailing list:

> > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 at 17:15, Jose M Calhariz via Abcde-users
> > > > <abcde-users@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.

Fix tested and confirmed by Jose:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 08:27:18AM +1100, josh wrote:
> I think I found the cause in the do_embedalbumart() function. The
> image is moved at the end of the case for each output format, so it
> won't be available for the next format.
>
> Have a look at lines 3704 - 3722 for the mp3 and flac cases.
> https://github.com/poddmo/abcde/blob/c30d1926c2258ce68932aa99bfc05299450c9046/abcde#L3704
>
> I've wondered in the past why the cover.jpg is missing from the abcde
> temp directory when cleaning was disabled. Those move cases would do
> it.
>
> Try changing them to copy commands, ie
>
> mv "$ALBUMARTFILE" "$FINALDIR"/albumart_backup
>
> becomes
>
> cp "$ALBUMARTFILE" "$FINALDIR"/albumart_backup
>
>

Yes, now I can generate both mp3 and flac files in one go with the
cover art.

Thank you