How To Install vorbisgain on Fedora 34

vorbisgain is Adds tags to Ogg Vorbis files to adjust the volume

Introduction

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

What is vorbisgain

VorbisGain is a utility that uses a psychoacoustic method to correct the volume of an Ogg Vorbis file to a predefined standardized loudness. It needs player support to work. Non-supporting players will play back the files without problems, but you’ll miss out on the benefits. Nowadays most good players such as ogg123, xmms and mplayer are already compatible.

We can use yum or dnf to install vorbisgain on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vorbisgain.

Install vorbisgain 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 vorbisgain using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vorbisgain

Install vorbisgain 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 vorbisgain using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vorbisgain

How To Uninstall vorbisgain on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vorbisgain

vorbisgain Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vorbisgain
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/c7f21d87b29b42950e74fa9f5a43bcb9bb7971
/usr/share/doc/vorbisgain
/usr/share/doc/vorbisgain/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vorbisgain/README
/usr/share/man/man1/vorbisgain.1.gz

References

Summary

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