--embed-thumbnail fails "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.05.01 [see verbose log below]

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• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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iMac:~ home$ youtube-dl  --extract-audio --audio-format m4a --audio-quality 0 -k  -v --embed-thumbnail  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5oSFKWOLaQ&list=PLH-Z9W9MZCGG5sZ0A1rUBZagBv1uIXZ8Y
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iMac:~ home$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--extract-audio', u'--audio-format', u'm4a', u'--audio-quality', u'0', u'-k', u'-v', u'--embed-thumbnail', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5oSFKWOLaQ']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0-tessus, ffprobe 4.0-tessus, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] W5oSFKWOLaQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] W5oSFKWOLaQ: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] W5oSFKWOLaQ: Extracting video information
[youtube] {43} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {18} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {36} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {17} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {135} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {134} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {133} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {160} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {140} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[youtube] {171} signature length 45.42, html5 player vflfv8a8v
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[youtube] W5oSFKWOLaQ: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] W5oSFKWOLaQ: Writing thumbnail to: Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.jpg
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r2---sn-fpqxc5oq-hxae.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?ei=YJ7vWtiTGpesgAOilIzYCg&ms=au%2Crdu&mt=1525652977&mv=m&pl=24&clen=12092629&key=yt6&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-fpqxc5oq-hxae%2Csn-ntqe7n7z&id=o-ACP8zQlAmQtKkIUVZFVrM-YTp-62eal5CtRzj24TopLa&fexp=23724337&dur=418.968&source=youtube&pcm2cms=yes&keepalive=yes&ip=121.200.17.121&requiressl=yes&itag=135&lmt=1391928478899937&ipbits=0&initcwndbps=1646250&expire=1525674688&mime=video%2Fmp4&fvip=2&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C160&gir=yes&c=WEB&beids=%5B9466594%5D&sparams=aitags%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpcm2cms%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&signature=A0BB8851155E1BB8C6B8DFE43B1905C443630E1D.874D7C0B36EBFB11CEB2E856717677DA97112F4D&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.f135.mp4
[download] 100% of 11.53MiB in 00:02
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://r2---sn-fpqxc5oq-hxae.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?ei=YJ7vWtiTGpesgAOilIzYCg&ms=au%2Crdu&mt=1525652977&mv=m&pl=24&clen=6487252&key=yt6&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-fpqxc5oq-hxae%2Csn-ntqe7n7z&id=o-ACP8zQlAmQtKkIUVZFVrM-YTp-62eal5CtRzj24TopLa&fexp=23724337&dur=419.055&source=youtube&pcm2cms=yes&keepalive=yes&ip=121.200.17.121&requiressl=yes&itag=171&lmt=1404577626287911&ipbits=0&initcwndbps=1646250&expire=1525674688&mime=audio%2Fwebm&fvip=2&gir=yes&c=WEB&beids=%5B9466594%5D&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Ckeepalive%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpcm2cms%2Cpl%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&signature=AEBE915658CAAE5B52D8FB4513D095B79743A230.AFF5F5B89EBF92D5C10046DA2B8F81396643EFBB&ratebypass=yes'
[download] Destination: Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.f171.webm
[download] 100% of 6.19MiB in 00:01
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.mkv"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.f135.mp4' -i 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.f171.webm' -c copy -map '0:v:0' -map '1:a:0' 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.temp.mkv'
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.mkv'
[ffmpeg] Destination: Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.m4a
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -i 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.mkv' -vn -acodec aac '-q:a' 0 '-bsf:a' aac_adtstoasc 'file:Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.m4a'
[atomicparsley] Adding thumbnail to "Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.m4a"
[debug] AtomicParsley command line: AtomicParsley 'Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.m4a' --artwork 'Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.jpg' -o 'Illusion - Isadora-W5oSFKWOLaQ.temp.m4a'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 471, in main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 461, in _real_main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1993, in download
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 800, in extract_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 854, in process_ie_result
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1627, in process_video_result
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1974, in process_info
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2039, in post_process
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/postprocessor/embedthumbnail.py", line 89, in run
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory```

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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information

Am trying to embed thumbnails in an audio file downloaded from Youtube.  Can't embed in webm format file and so must convert after download.  AtomicParsley then seems to encounter an error.  It then deletes the downloaded audio and thumbnail files.

I am running macOS 10.13.4 with macOS versions of youtube-dl (20180501), FFmpeg (3.4) and AtomicParsley (0.9.0).  AtomicParsley is very old but I can't find a more recent version.  Does this mean that for macOS, users need to compile their own ?


Problem found: There is a more recent version of AtomicParsley for macOS (v0.9.6).  It's not available on GitHub which threw me but kind people have made macOS binaries available elsewhere.

This issue can be closed.