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How to Install Easytag on Linuxmint 18.03

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To Install Easytag on Linuxmint 18.03
EasyTAG is an open source, simple, cross-platform application for audio tag editor written in C and GTK+ for handling graphics respectively. It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg and many more. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of easytag on Linux mint 18.03.

Installation
Add the repository of Easytag by using ppa.

linuxhelp ~ #  add-apt-repository ppa:amigadave/ppa
You are about to add the following 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

Executing: /tmp/tmp.adpDSjMKIm/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
D9DE0AB3
gpg: requesting key D9DE0AB3 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key D9DE0AB3: public key "Launchpad PPA for David King" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Let's first start with updating the system repositories

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                                 
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                     
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                           
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                                             
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]                     
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]                                 
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [1,036 B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]                   
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [916 B]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [912 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/amigadave/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [896 B]
Fetched 344 kB in 2s (156 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Easytag application run the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install easytag
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libopusfile0
Suggested packages:
  easytag-nautilus libid3-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  easytag libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libopusfile0
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 398 not upgraded.
Need to get 859 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,904 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libid3-3.8.3v5 amd64 3.8.3-16.2 [74.2 kB]
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libid3-3.8.3v5:amd64 (3.8.3-16.2) ...
Setting up libid3tag0 (0.15.1b-11) ...
Setting up libopusfile0 (0.7-1) ...
Setting up easytag (2.4.3-0amigadave1~xenial0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here
linuxmint_menu

Now, you can able to use the Easytag application.
Easytag_application


The version of Easytag.
version
With this, the method to install Easytag on Linux mint-18.03 comes to an end.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What is the use of Easytag Application?

A

EasyTAG is an open source, simple, cross-platform application for audio tag editor written in C and GTK+ for handling graphics respectively.

Q

What are the formats does Easytag supports with?

A

EasyTag supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg and many more.

Q

How to install Easytag on Debian OS?

A

For installing Easytag on Debian OS use the following link, https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-easytag-in-debian-9/

Q

Do we get header information on Easytag?

A

Easytag provides Read and displays file header information (bitrate, time)

Q

How does Easytag portray its view over artists and album?

A

Easytag has tree based browser or a view by artist and album.

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