How To Install mp3diags on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mp3diags
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mp3diags
mp3diags is:
MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also allows user to “look inside” an MP3 file.
Unlike some programs that are designed to deal with a single topic (like fixing VBR headers or adding cover art), MP3 Diags is a one stop solution that identifies more than 50 different issues in MP3 files and provides the means to fix many of them.
Some of the more important issues that are found:
- Broken tags / headers / audio.
- Duplicate tags / headers.
- Incorrect placement of tags / headers (ID3V2, ID3V1, LAME, Xing, etc).
- Low quality audio.
- Missing VBR header.
- Missing track info / cover art.
- Broken track info / cover art.
- Missing normalization data.
- Character encoding issues (for languages other than English).
Some of the fixes and changes that MP3 Diags can do:
- Adding / fixing track info, including album cover; information can be retrieved from several sources: Internet, clipboard, file name, local files, and (obviously) keyboard.
- Correcting files that show incorrect song duration.
- Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly.
- Converting characters for non-English names.
- Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don’t handle the composer field.
- Renaming files based on their fields.
- Changing word case for track info.
There are three methods to install mp3diags
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 mp3diags Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mp3diags
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mp3diags
Install mp3diags Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mp3diags
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mp3diags
Install mp3diags 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 mp3diags
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mp3diags
How To Uninstall mp3diags on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mp3diags
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mp3diags
Uninstall mp3diags And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mp3diags
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mp3diags
Remove mp3diags Configurations and Data
To remove mp3diags
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mp3diags
Remove mp3diags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mp3diags
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mp3diags
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mp3diags
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.