A few days ago the launch of the new version of Kid3 3.9.2, which is a bugfix release that addresses issues with incorrect framework modifications on import, as well as adding a handful of new features.
With Kid3 the user you can easily tag multiple audio file formats sin having to type the same information over and over again. This is a very useful tool when you need to tag large volumes of audio files for various purposes.
The Kid3 GUI consists of a single window with a well-defined layout, where you can use the file browser, folder view, or drag-and-drop method to import songs into the workspace. Currently, it supports almost all popular audio file formats: MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 / AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, and AIFF (for example, full albums).
Kid3 is also loaded with different features where you can convert between various ID3 versions. Kid3 is fairly light on system resources, using a low to moderate amount of CPU and system memory. It is very sensitive to keystrokes and mouse events, and includes a help file for less experienced users.
What's new in Kid3 3.9.2?
As mentioned at the beginning, this is a corrective version, but it also implements some new features, such as that support for chapters in MP4 audiobooks is included, only with the Mp4v2Metadata plugin, as well as importing from URLs containing search results from Amazon, Discogs, gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, and a Norwegian translation.
Other changes that stand out in this new version is that now support for .dff has been included, an audio format developed by Sony and Philips for Super Audio CD (SACD).
In addition to this, it is now possible to edit the file name formats of the playlist, as well as the detection of encoding for importing and exporting text files.
- New style for the macOS icon.
- Set rating as star count with 'set ratingstars'.
- Compilation with the latest mp4v2 library.
- Incorrect frames are changed if the number of tracks is changed on import.
- CLI interface adds encoding detection for text file import and export
Finally if you want to know more about it, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install Kid3 Tag Editor on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those interested in being able to install this application on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives. They should know that Kid3 is available in a PPA which you can install by running the following commands from the terminal.
For this let's open a terminal in the system with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3
Then we will update our list of packages with:
sudo apt-get update
Finally we can perform the installation de this application using any of the following options, the first one is for those who have the KDE desktop environment:
sudo apt-get install kid3
If they are not KDE users you can install the qt version on your system with:
sudo apt-get install kid3-qt
Or for those adventurous who love the terminal, they can opt for the CLI version:
sudo apt-get install kid3-cli
Another method to install this application is by compiling of this in our equipment and for this we have to obtain its source code.
We can do this by opening a terminal and in it we are going to type the following command:
sudo apt install git
And now we are going to get the application code with:
git clone git@invent.kde.org:kde/kid3.git
We create a new folder where we are going to compile:
mkdir build
We enter the newly created directory:
cd build
And finally we proceed to compile by typing the following command:
cmake ../kid3