Tag: mp3

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Getting Asunder MP3 Ripper Installed in Ubuntu 18.04

Out of the box installation was not working, use Synaptic to install instead.

  • Install Asunder through Synaptic
  • Install Lame and Lame-Doc through Synaptic
    $ sudo apt-get install asunder lame

For Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 19.04

  • $ sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-tools

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SanDisk Clip Jam – AudioBooks

For an Audiobook, it was necessary to play it as music, and rename the Album for each disk with a prefix, like 01, 02 .. 0N, it could not keep the tracks from mixing otherwise.

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Convert MP4 to MP3 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and Tag Meta Data Software

There is a program available on Ubuntu youtube-dl, that can download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms. But it stores the file in mp4, since it contains video. But sometimes you do not want the video and only the audio. To extract only the audio part, you can use the pacpl comamnd line tool.

Use "Sound Converter" Application for simple conversion

Usage:

$ youtube-dl -f mp4 --output "yourfilename.%(ext)s" https://youtu.be/your-link-here
$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 256 --output "yourfilename.%(ext)s" https://youtu.be/your-link-here

Older Method:

pacpl --to mp3 -v -r -bitrate 256 targetfile.mp4

Ubuntu Software: EasyTAG to modify MP3 MetaData

Update MP3 tags with the command line:

$ sudo apt-get install id3v2

Some useful commands

List all of the tags or specific for a particular file without wild card
$ id3v2 -l *.mp3

Example of how to update title, album, year
$ id3v2 -t "My Title" file-to-update.mp3
$ id3v2 -a "My Album"
$ id3v2 -y 2016

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Changing default MP3 encoding settings for 256 bit rate

Use the following command in the terminal to see values for lame encoder
gst-inspect-0.10 lame

I've added a bitrate parm in addition to lowering the vbr-quality to 0 from 6 for best quality

My Preferred format setings:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 bitrate=256 vbr-quality=0 ! id3v2mux