How To Install icedax on Fedora 34

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icedax.

Install icedax on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove icedax

icedax Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cdda2ogg
/usr/bin/cdda2wav
/usr/bin/icedax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/7bfdb892585192e50a55f0aaf4dd42a9257817
/usr/share/doc/icedax
/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/licenses/icedax
/usr/share/licenses/icedax/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cdda2ogg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/list_audio_tracks.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.