metaflac - Remove all tags and artwork (except vendor tag)

[Perplexer1]

This will be a feature request I guess:

I would like to have metaflac.exe remove all tags and the picture / artwork, except the vendor tag, from my FLAC files. As flexible as the tool is, it apparently can't do this in a single command, so I am currently having to run it twice to accomplish this:

metaflac.exe" --remove-all-tags song.flac
metaflac.exe" --remove --block-type=PICTURE song.flac

Or alternatively: metaflac.exe --remove-all-tags song.flac && metaflac.exe --remove --block-type=PICTURE song.flac

"metaflac.exe --remove-all" comes close, since it removes all the tags and images in one go, but unfortunately also the vendor tag (and other blocks). If only there was a --keep_vendor option available.

The Mp3Tag program does what I want but that is GUI and I'd like to use metaflac.exe since I'm using it in a script.

[ktmf01]

So, you want to do something rather specific. What is the problem with running the command twice? The metaflac tool would become very complicated if it would allow for all possible transformations in a single pass.

[Perplexer1]

I configured a right-click context menu option to "Remove tags" from a FLAC file. I can't call metaflac directly and pass the file name as an argument because that would be just one call. Instead I am having to call a CMD script which then calls metaflac.exe twice. It complicates the situation on my end but it does work. So it's not anything that stops me from achieving the goal. I just thought it would make it simpler for me as the user. If it complicates things on metaflac's side then I guess it can be left as it is.