How To Install mp3cd on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mp3cd on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mp3cd
mp3cd is:
This script burns a playlist (.m3u, XMLPlaylist or command line list) of MP3s, Oggs, and/or WAVs to an audio CD. The “.m3u” format is really nothing more than a list of fully qualified filenames. The script handles making the WAVs sane by resampling if needed, and normalizing the volume across all tracks. Reading tags and writing CD-TEXT is supported.
If a failure happens, earlier stages can be skipped with the ‘-s’ flag. The file “tool-output.txt” in the temp directory can be examined to see what went wrong during the stage. Some things are time-consuming (like writing the WAVs from MP3s) and if the CD burn failed, it’s much nicer not to have to start over from scratch. When doing this, you will not need the m3u file any more, since the files have already been built. See the list of stages using ‘-h’.
This script implements the suggested methods outlined in the Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-CD-Burning/
There are three methods to install mp3cd on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mp3cd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mp3cd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mp3cd
Install mp3cd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mp3cd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mp3cd
Install mp3cd 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 mp3cd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mp3cd
How To Uninstall mp3cd on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mp3cd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mp3cd
Uninstall mp3cd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mp3cd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mp3cd
Remove mp3cd Configurations and Data
To remove mp3cd configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mp3cd
Remove mp3cd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mp3cd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mp3cd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mp3cd package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
