Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, EasyTag is a tool for editing tags for the following file formats: MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey’s Audiand WavPack files. It works both on Linux and Windows, and has an simple and intuitive interface written in GTK2.
The latest version of EasyTag is EasyTag 2.3.6, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- Fix renaming files in the scanner
- Improve minimum size of log area
- Improve several UI strings
- Add several comments for translator
- Add a test for the file renaming code
- Fix compiler warnings due to switch-enum warning when disabling tag support
- Improvements to several internal string-handling functions
- Remove setting for controlling the maximum number of log lines
- Remove quit confirmation dialog
- Further refactoring of internal file list code
In this article I will show you how to install EasyTAG 2.3.6 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems.
Because it will be added to the PPA soon, installing EasyTAG 2.3.6 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the easytag package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amigadave/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install easytag
Optional, to remove easytag, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove easytag