In the next article we are going to take a look at Kid3. This is a audio tag editor with which we can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC and WMA files or convert ID3v1 and ID3v2 in an efficient way. We can also establish new labels in the files or import from Freedb, MusicBrainz and Disco among other platforms.
This is an application that can be very useful if we are one of those users who have a large collection of audio files and we need to quickly categorize them. If this is your case, then Kid3 Audio Tagger will seem like a simple and great option. Kid3 Audio Tagger is lightweight and easy to use. With it, anyone can edit the labels of all your audio tracks, no matter what format they are in.
As a batch ID3 tag editor Kid3 Audio Tag is really good. The interface is very easy to use since there is only one window to work with. In its well structured design can be easily navigated using file explorer, folder view or 'drag and drop' to import songs or covers. When editing our tags, we can change, among other things, the title, artist, album, comment, date, track number and genre.
The audio tag editor Kid3 reached version 3.6.0 recently added some new features, MP4 support improvements, and bug fixes.
General features and improvements in Kid3 3.6.0
- Kid3 works under Gnu / Linux (KDE or Qt only), Windows, macOS and Android and use Qt, id3lib, libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile, libFLAC ++, libFLAC, TagLib, Chromaprint.
- Admits MP3 files, Ogg / Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 / AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF.
- Offers a new look for the Android application with Qt Quick Controls 2.
- We will have at our disposal a star rating editor, with a configurable mapping between the rating values and the number of stars.
- We will be able to have the option to restrict the length of file names.
- We will have the option to show hidden files in the file and directory lists.
- Admits add unknown authors to M4A files.
- We can edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags of MP3 files.
- We will have at our disposal the bulk file tagging.
- Application import data from multiple sources, such as Discogs, Amazon, Gnudb.org, Tracktype, MusicBrainz, and Fingerprint. We can search for the corresponding cover, create playlists, apply filters and configure the encoding of the texts.
If someone wants to see the code of this application, they can take a look at its corresponding Sourceforge page. We will also have more information about this application in the project website.
Install Kid3 3.6.0 on Ubuntu
The developer of this program maintains a repository with the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10. To install it on our system, we will have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). In it we will execute the following command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3
After this, in the same terminal we will execute the following commands to install:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install kid3-qt
For users using KDE, it will be advisable replace kid3-qt in the last command with kid3 for better integration. We will also find its corresponding command line version. Just have to change kid3-qt to kid3-cli.
Uninstall Kid3
For remove the PPA, we will have the possibility to use the Ubuntu Software option. In it we will go to the 'Other software' tab and from there we can proceed to the elimination. We will also have the option to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ufleisch/kid3
For remove the tag editor from our system, we will only need to execute the following command in the same terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove kid3 kid3-*
In general, if you need easily tag audio files, whether they are .MP3, .WMA, .Ogg / .Vorbis, .FLAC, .MPC, .MP4 / .AAC, .WAV or .AIFF files, without having to do it manually and the terminal does not convince you, Kid3 Audio Tagger is an application that you should try.