How to install EasyTAG in Debian 9
How to install EasyTAG in Debian 9
A tag editor is a software that supports editing of metadata in Multimedia file formats, rather than editing the actual file' s content. This article explains the installation procedure of EasyTAG in Debian 9. EasyTAG is a simple, cross-platform audio tag editor written in C and GTK+ for handling graphics handling respectively. It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’ s Audio, and WavPack files. It has various features that is listed below as follows.
Features :
- Automated tagging using presets and custom masks.
- Rename files using tag information or external text files.
- Apply changes in a field (Artist, Album...) to all selected files.
- Read and display file header informations (bitrate, time...)
- Tree based browser or a view by artist and album
- Recursion into subdirectories
- Playlist generator
The EasyTAG' s installation procedure is explained below.
Installation procedure
To begin with the installation procedure, add the repo of EasyTAG by executing the following command.
root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
The repository is installed in your system. Next update the repo by running the apt-get update command.
root@debian:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release
Reading package lists... Done
The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install the EasyTAG using apt-get install command and press y to continue with the installation.
root@debian:~# apt-get install easytag
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gnome-icon-theme libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libopusfile0
Suggested packages:
easytag-nautilus libid3-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
easytag gnome-icon-theme libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libopusfile0
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 20.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 libid3-3.8.3v5 amd64 3.8.3-16.2+b1 [155 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 libid3tag0 amd64 0.15.1b-12 [35.4 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 libopusfile0 amd64 0.8-1+b1 [38.9 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 easytag amd64 2.4.3-1 [872 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 gnome-icon-theme all 3.12.0-2 [9,890 kB]
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Setting up libid3tag0:amd64 (0.15.1b-12) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
Setting up libid3-3.8.3v5:amd64 (3.8.3-16.2+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.50.3-2) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-9) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up easytag (2.4.3-1) ...
The EasyTAG application is installed successfully. To run the application, type the application name in the Activities window and click on the icon to run it.