How To Install icedax on CentOS 8

icedax is A utility for sampling/copying .wav files from digital audio CDs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on CentOS 8.

What is icedax

Icedax is a sampling utility for CD-ROM drives that are capable of providing a CD’s audio data in digital form to your host. Audio data read from the CD can be saved as .wav or .sun format sound files. Recording formats include stereo/mono, 8/12/16 bits and different rates. Icedax can also be used as a CD player.

We can use yum or dnf to install icedax on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icedax.

Install icedax on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install icedax using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icedax

Install icedax on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install icedax using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icedax

How To Uninstall icedax on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the icedax package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove icedax

icedax Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/cdda2ogg
/usr/bin/cdda2wav
/usr/bin/icedax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/4a19b5495501ede4b57968a1c37c4a1cfcae26
/usr/share/doc/icedax
/usr/share/doc/icedax/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/Frontends
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/HOWTOUSE
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/NEEDED
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/OtherProgs
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/README
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/TODO
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/cdda_links
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.pl
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.pl.efi
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/cdda2ogg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/list_audio_tracks.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.