How To Install mp3diags 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 mp3diags on Ubuntu.

What is `mp3diags`

mp3diags is:

MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also allows user to “look inside” an MP3 file.

Unlike some programs that are designed to deal with a single topic (like fixing VBR headers or adding cover art), MP3 Diags is a one stop solution that identifies more than 50 different issues in MP3 files and provides the means to fix many of them.

Some of the more important issues that are found:

Broken tags / headers / audio.
Duplicate tags / headers.
Incorrect placement of tags / headers (ID3V2, ID3V1, LAME, Xing, etc).
Low quality audio.
Missing VBR header.
Missing track info / cover art.
Broken track info / cover art.
Missing normalization data.
Character encoding issues (for languages other than English).

Some of the fixes and changes that MP3 Diags can do:

Adding / fixing track info, including album cover; information can be retrieved from several sources: Internet, clipboard, file name, local files, and (obviously) keyboard.
Correcting files that show incorrect song duration.
Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly.
Converting characters for non-English names.
Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don’t handle the composer field.
Renaming files based on their fields.
Changing word case for track info.

There are three methods to install mp3diags 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 mp3diags Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mp3diags using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mp3diags

Install mp3diags Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mp3diags using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mp3diags

Install mp3diags 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 mp3diags using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mp3diags

How To Uninstall mp3diags on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the mp3diags package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mp3diags

Uninstall mp3diags And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mp3diags and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mp3diags

Remove mp3diags Configurations and Data

To remove mp3diags configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mp3diags

Remove mp3diags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mp3diags configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mp3diags

Dependencies

mp3diags have the following dependencies:

References

mp3diags website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mp3diags package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.