How To Install kid3-cli on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kid3-cli on Ubuntu.

What is `kid3-cli`

kid3-cli is:

With Kid3, an audio tag editor you can:

Edit ID3v1.1 tags in your MP3 files
Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames in your MP3 files
Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, Opus, DSF, FLAC, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules.
Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together
Generate tags from filenames
Generate tags from the contents of tag fields
Generate filenames from tags
Generate playlist files
Automatic case conversion and string translation
Import and export album data
Import from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon

This package contains a command line interface for Kid3, for a GUI you can use kid3-qt or kid3.

There are three methods to install kid3-cli on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kid3-cli Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kid3-cli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kid3-cli

Install kid3-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kid3-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kid3-cli

Install kid3-cli 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 kid3-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kid3-cli

How To Uninstall kid3-cli on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the kid3-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kid3-cli

Uninstall kid3-cli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kid3-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kid3-cli

Remove kid3-cli Configurations and Data

To remove kid3-cli configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kid3-cli

Remove kid3-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kid3-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kid3-cli

Dependencies

kid3-cli have the following dependencies:

References

kid3-cli website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kid3-cli package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.