{"id":7691,"date":"2018-04-23T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:49:33","slug":"kid3-3-6-1-released-install-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/kid3-3-6-1-released-install-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid3 3.6.1 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kid3 audio tag editor 3.6.1 was released earlier today. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, and\/or Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This bugfix release improves the speed when saving with a lot of unchanged files in the directory. It fixes wrong parsing of the xid atom when using the Mp4v2Metadata plugin, scrolling to the opened file when using a custom sort order in the file list and avoids changing the file name extension when setting file names from the tags.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kid3 3.6.1 changelog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster saving when many files are unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>Do not change file extension when creating file name from tags.<\/li>\n<li>Support for cross building.<\/li>\n<li>Fix parsing of xid atom with Mp4v2Metadata plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll to opened file after sorting file list.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid recursion when automatically applying format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-audio-tagger-600x376.jpg\" alt=\"Kid3 Audio Tagger\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-audio-tagger-600x376.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-audio-tagger-450x282.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-audio-tagger.jpg 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Kid3 3.6.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The developer maintains a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ufleisch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/kid3\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> with the latest packages for all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. 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 in your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-ppa-600x93.jpg\" alt=\"Kid3 PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"93\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-ppa-600x93.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-ppa-450x70.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kid3-ppa.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then run following commands to install or upgrade the audio editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update \r\n\r\nsudo apt install kid3-qt<\/pre>\n<p>For KDE users, replace <code>kid3-qt<\/code> in the last command with <code>kid3<\/code> for better integration.<\/p>\n<p>To upgrade Kid3 from an existing release, simply install the updates via Software Updater:<\/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><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the PPA, launch <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and navigate to &#8216;Other Software&#8217; tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove Kid3 tag editor, either use system package manger or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove kid3 kid3-*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kid3 audio tag editor 3.6.1 was released earlier today. 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It fixes wrong parsing of the xid atom when using the Mp4v2Metadata plugin, scrolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1040,726],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-audo-tag-editor","tag-kid3"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}