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How to install Easytag on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Easytag on Ubuntu 17.04

EasyTAG is an open source, simple, cross-platform application for 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 is so simple to install Easytag on Ubuntu 17.04, and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Features

  • Auto completes Partial Entered Date.
  • Support for Compact Disc Database.
  • Capable of Generating Playlist and Inbuilt embedded Searching.
  • Support for automated Tagging using custom masks.
  • Easy and Straight forward Interface for End user Interaction.
  • Supports a large Number of formats.
  • Supports a huge filed of tagging.
  • Undo/redo last change supported.

Installing Easytag

First, before you begin with the installation process, you need to add the necessary repo for EasyTAG. Run the following command for the same purpose. 

root@linuxhelp11:~# add-apt-repository ppa:amigadave/ppa
 The latest stable builds of EasyTAG.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~amigadave/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpuhvbe_bz/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpuhvbe_bz/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key CDFFDA19D9DE0AB3: public key " Launchpad PPA for David King"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK


Once it is done, you need to update the newly added repository in the following manner.

root@linuxhelp11:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease               
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease            
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
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Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After that, you should install Easytag by triggering the following command. 

root@linuxhelp11:~# apt-get install easytag -y
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 308 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 20.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libid3-3.8.3v5 amd64 3.8.3-16.2 [74.2 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libid3tag0 amd64 0.15.1b-12 [31.4 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libopusfile0 amd64 0.8-1 [38.9 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 easytag amd64 2.4.3-1 [707 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 gnome-icon-theme all 3.12.0-2 [9,618 kB]
Fetched 10.5 MB in 1min 3s (166 kB/s)         
Selecting previously unselected package libid3-3.8.3v5:amd64.
(Reading database ... 170784 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libid3-3.8.3v5_3.8.3-16.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libid3-3.8.3v5:amd64 (3.8.3-16.2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libid3tag0:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libid3tag0_0.15.1b-12_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libid3tag0:amd64 (0.15.1b-12) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libopusfile0.
Preparing to unpack .../libopusfile0_0.8-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libopusfile0 (0.8-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package easytag.
Preparing to unpack .../easytag_2.4.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking easytag (2.4.3-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package gnome-icon-theme.
Preparing to unpack .../gnome-icon-theme_3.12.0-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-2) ...
Setting up libopusfile0 (0.8-1) ...
Setting up libid3tag0:amd64 (0.15.1b-12) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libid3-3.8.3v5:amd64 (3.8.3-16.2) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.52.0-1) ...
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 bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.04.20170406-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up easytag (2.4.3-1) ...

Once Easytag is installed, you can launch it directly from your Ubuntu dashboard. Just type easy in the search field, the application icon gets displayed on the screen. Click on it to open it.

The EasyTag application now appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of EasyTag on Ubuntu 17.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Easy Tag Ubuntu
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