Maybe anyone who needs that could submit it as a feature request here, so that Stephen could consider it:
http://trac.sbooth.org/Max/
Anyway, what to do if you need JPEGs in there ...
Here's what I've found. I thought of ripping/encoding in Max but tagging in a separate application.
I first looked at Media Rage but found that although Media Rage would put a JPEG into a FLAC file it could only do so one file at a time, which is a bit limiting. It also crashed every time I did it. That doesn't seem promising for two reasons. But that might work - I don't know whether it's doing it correctly WRT the spec, or whether any particular players can or can't see the cover art when MR has added it.
I looked for other taggers. I found little. There's something called jaikoz - it's not clear to me whether it does that or not. The application seems to be tied to MusicBrainz, which would put me off.
I looked for a commandline tagger. Success! And it's free as in beer and open source. It's metaflac, which is part of the official FLAC tools. You can get a Mac installer that's distributed in a dmg here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... e_id=32318
How to use it. See here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentati ... aflac.html
And here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentati ... ns_picture
Specifically you want (from the first link):
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--import-picture-from={FILENAME|SPECIFICATION}
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The format of SPECIFICATION is
[TYPE]|[MIME-TYPE]|[DESCRIPTION]|[WIDTHxHEIGHTxDEPTH[/COLORS]]|FILE
All in all, I don't think this is too fiddly to be practicable. Don't forget that in OS X's Terminal you can pass on some of the typing that would be necessary on other Unix-based platforms. If you drag and drop a file or folder in an open Finder window, the OS automatically completes the path for you - and correctly escapes the spaces.
OK. So all you do is run the FLAC installer. Now you open Terminal. Terminal opens with your Home area as your current working directory. You could use cd to move to where the music files and cover-art file is - for example:
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cd /Users/mike/Music/Sting/Songs\ from\ the\ Labyrinth
Let's say your cover art is called cover.jpg and is in your current working directory. To import the artwork into a file, call metaflac from the commandline. At the prompt type:
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metaflac --import-picture-from=cover.jpg music_file.flac
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metaflac --import-picture-from=cover.jpg 01\ Walsingham.flac
It should also work with multiple music files. In that case, at the prompt type:
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metaflac --import-picture-from=cover.jpg