{"id":34052,"date":"2021-06-23T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34052"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:57:12","slug":"install-kid3-387-ubuntu-21-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/install-kid3-387-ubuntu-21-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Kid3 Audio Tag Editor 3.8.7 in Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kid3-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kid3-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kid3-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kid3 3.8.7 was released as the latest version of the KDE&#8217;s audio tag editor. You can install it easily in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Linux Mint 20 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Kid3 is a free open-source tool to edit tags in MP3, Ogg\/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4\/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files.<\/p>\n<p>It can edit ID3v1.1 tags, all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames, and edit tags for multiple files. As well it can convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.<\/p>\n<p>Version 3.8.7 is a minor release added Russian handbook as well as following bug-fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ID3v2: wrong numeric strings for genres Fast Fusion, Fok, Folk Rock, Folklore, Funk, Fusion.<\/li>\n<li>ID3v1: Genres Avant-Garde, Beat Music, Bebop, Britpop, Dancehall, Dark Wave, Euro House, Eurotechno, Fast Fusion, Folk Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz-Funk, Pop-Funk, Synth-Pop, Worldbeat cannot be set with TagLib version < 1.12.<\/li>\n<li>Memory leak in the rare case where the file type is detected not by the extension but by the contents.<\/li>\n<li>CLI: fields (sub-elements of a frame) with a non-string value cannot be set with id3lib.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kid3-focal2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kid3-focal2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33499\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Kid3 3.8.7 in Ubuntu via PPA:<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ufleisch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/kid3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official Kid3 PPA<\/a> has made the new packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 21.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open <u>terminal<\/u> either from application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch\/kid3<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kid3-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kid3-ppa-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kid3-ppa-focal-450x128.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> If an old version was installed, upgrade Kid3 using <b>Software Updater<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-kid3-qt-450x315.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade kid3 via software updater\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-kid3-qt-450x315.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-kid3-qt-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-kid3-qt.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade to the latest tag editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install kid3-qt<\/pre>\n<p><i>You may replace <code>kid3-qt<\/code> with <code>kid3<\/code> in the code for KDE integration, and\/or with <code>kid3-cli<\/code> for the command-line interface<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, either open <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b> tab and remove the relevant line, or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ufleisch\/kid3<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the audio tag editor, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove kid3 kid3-*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kid3 3.8.7 was released as the latest version of the KDE&#8217;s audio tag editor. You can install it easily in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. 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