Several days ago the release of the new version of the popular open source label editor Kid3 3.8.3 was presented, a version that comes with few changes but some of them are quite important as they improve the functionality of the application. For those who do not know Kid3 they should know that this is a free, cross-platform and open source audio tagger It runs on Linux (KDE / Qt), MacOS, Windows, and Android.
With Kid3 user can easily tag multiple audio file formats without 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. It currently 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 quite light on system resources as it uses 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 3.8.3?
This new edition of Kid3 3.8.3 is featured with new keyboard shortcuts and scripts user action, which makes it easy to navigate between the file and tag sections.
Besides that also the inclusion of 2 new scripts stands out that work for capitalize English titles to labels and transliterate ID3v1 tags to ASCII.
Another change that stands out in this new version of Kid3 3.8.3 is the introduction of a new dark mode and that they were also implemented various enhancements to custom themes along with one they translated the user interface and manual into new languages ​​(Korean and Swedish).
Also in highlights that the application already supports being able to drag multiple header rows in the import table and also the ability to rename read-only files.
Finally, the announcement also mentions that various minor bug fixes have been implemented. If you want to know more about it, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install Kid3 Tag Editor 3.8.3 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 it is available in a PPA that you can install by running the following commands from the terminal.
For this we are going to open a terminal in the system with the shortcut keys 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