{"id":4767,"date":"2015-03-13T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T16:24:31","slug":"install-latest-easytag-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/install-latest-easytag-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install The Latest EasyTag Audio Tag Editor in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-audio-tag-editor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-audio-tag-editor.png\" alt=\"easytag audio tag editor\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-audio-tag-editor.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-audio-tag-editor-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Install the most recent release of EasyTag Audio tag editor in Ubuntu from PPA, while Ubuntu repositories provide an old version.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.gnome.org\/Apps\/EasyTAG\" target=\"_blank\">EasyTag<\/a> is a simple audio tag editor written in C and GTK+. It supports MP3, MP2, MP4\/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey&#8217;s Audio, and WavPack files. And works under Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-mainwindow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-mainwindow-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"easytag-mainwindow\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-mainwindow-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-mainwindow-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-mainwindow.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Ubuntu repositories provide the old 2.1.10 release for 14.04 LTS, the latest stable 2.2.6 was released recently with <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix crash when saving FLAC tags<\/li>\n<li>Fix more CDDB search dialog memory leaks<\/li>\n<li>Fix memory leaks when loading and saving Speex and Ogg files<\/li>\n<li>Fix a crash when renaming files<\/li>\n<li>Fix Ctrl-clicking to toggle file selection<\/li>\n<li>Fix stripping the disc number from ID3v2.4 tags<\/li>\n<li>Support album artist fields in WavPack tags<\/li>\n<li>Improve validation of Vorbis artwork and MIME types<\/li>\n<li>Several improvements to WavPack tag support<\/li>\n<li>Relicense all code under the GNU GPL version 2 or later<\/li>\n<li>Fix menu items used for tag field case conversion<\/li>\n<li>Marek \u010cernock\u00fd\u2019s Czech translation<\/li>\n<li>Christian Kirbach\u2019s German help translation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install\/Upgrade EasyTag in Ubuntu 14.04\/Linux Mint 17:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To install the latest EasyTag and receive future updates as part of system update, run below command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to add its <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~amigadave\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">official ppa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amigadave\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"easytag-ppa\" width=\"580\" height=\"155\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-ppa.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/easytag-ppa-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then update system cache and install the editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install easytag<\/pre>\n<p>Or upgrade the software through <i>Software Updater<\/i> or <i>Updater Manager<\/i> if you have an previous release installed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install the most recent release of EasyTag Audio tag editor in Ubuntu from PPA, while Ubuntu repositories provide an old version. EasyTag is a simple audio tag editor written in C and GTK+. It supports MP3, MP2, MP4\/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey&#8217;s Audio, and WavPack files. And works under Linux, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1040,1246],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-audo-tag-editor","tag-easytag"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}