[SOLVED] Can't give metadata of comment to MP3 file using ffmpeg

Can't give metadata of comment to MP3 file using ffmpeg

I want to covert an AAC audio file to MP3 and add a comment in the metadata of the MP3 file using ffmpeg.
The -metadata comment option doesn't work and ffmpeg doesn't return an error.

The complete command I'm running is ffmpeg -i "test.aac" -ab 128k -metadata comment='this is test' "test.mp3"

I also tried -metadata description='this is test' and even updated ffmpeg. Other options such as -metadata artist and -metadata album work well.

What's wrong with this approach?

Output

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (aac (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
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Output #0, mp3, to 'test.mp3':
  Metadata:
    description     : this is test
    TSSE            : Lavf58.29.100
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3 (libmp3lame), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.54.100 libmp3lame

Environment
ffmpeg version 4.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.59)

Solution

Possible bug. ffmpeg is writing comment metadata as user text frame (TXXX) instead of the expected comment (COMM).

For now I suggest using a different tool for comment tag. eyeD3 example:

eyeD3 --comment "added a comment" input.mp3