How To Install replaygain on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install replaygain
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is replaygain
replaygain is:
This package contains the replaygain and collectiongain tools, which use the rgain3 Python package to apply volume normalization metadata to individual tracks, albums, or an entire collection of music. Media players that support Replay Gain will use this information to adjust the volume during playback, so that all tracks sound equally loud.
Replay Gain is a proposed standard designed to solve the problem of varying volumes across audio files. For more information see https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain.
There are three methods to install replaygain
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install replaygain Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install replaygain
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install replaygain
Install replaygain Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install replaygain
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install replaygain
Install replaygain Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install replaygain
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install replaygain
How To Uninstall replaygain on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the replaygain
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove replaygain
Uninstall replaygain And Its Dependencies
To uninstall replaygain
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove replaygain
Remove replaygain Configurations and Data
To remove replaygain
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge replaygain
Remove replaygain configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove replaygain
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge replaygain
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install replaygain
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.