Easy Tag Creator and Editor for Audio and Video Files

Easy Tag Creator and Editor for Audio and Video Files- EasyTAG

Graphics plays a vital role in our day to day life ranging from manipulation of images, videos and audios. This tutorial illustrates about EasyTAG, its Usability, Features, Installation and other aspects.

EasyTAG

Easy TAG is open source application software, which is released under GNU General Public License. It is designed for viewing and editing Graphics.

Features

• Auto completes Partial Entered Date.
• Support for Compact Disc Database.
• Capable of Generating Playlist and Inbuilt embedded Searching.
• Support for automated Tagging using custom masks.
• Easy and Straight forward Interface for End user Interaction.
• Supports a large Number of formats.
• Supports a huge filed of tagging.
• Undo/redo last change supported.

To Download the EasyTAG package

Execute the below command to download the Easy TAG package.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget https://download.gnome.org/sources/easytag/2.2/easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz
--2016-04-04 19:04:29--  https://download.gnome.org/sources/easytag/2.2/easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz
Resolving download.gnome.org... 209.132.180.180, 209.132.180.168
Connecting to download.gnome.org|209.132.180.180|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/X11/GNOME/sources/easytag/2.2/easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz [following]
--2016-04-04 19:04:36--  http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/X11/GNOME/sources/easytag/2.2/easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz
Resolving ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp... 203.178.137.175, 2001:200:0:1::800:21
Connecting to ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp|203.178.137.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1016508 (993K) [application/x-xz]
Saving to: “ easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz” 

100%[=================================================================================> ] 1,016,508   87.1K/s   in 12s     

2016-04-04 19:04:49 (80.3 KB/s) - “ easytag-2.2.6.tar.xz”  saved [1016508/1016508]

To enable your rpmforge repository

Before installing the Easy tag tool, enable the rpmforge repository.

Now install the Easytag package.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install --enablerepo=rpmforge easytag
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.excellmedia.net
 * epel: ftp.cuhk.edu.hk
 * extras: centos.excellmedia.net
 * rpmforge: mirrors.digipower.vn
 * updates: centos.excellmedia.net
Resolving Dependencies
-->  Running transaction check
--->  Package easytag.x86_64 0:2.1.7-1.el6 will be installed
-->  Finished Dependency Resolution
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Installing : easytag-2.1.7-1.el6.x86_64                                                                              1/1
  Verifying  : easytag-2.1.7-1.el6.x86_64                                                                              1/1

Installed:
  easytag.x86_64 0:2.1.7-1.el6                                                                                             

Complete!

Now the installation of the Easytag package is completed.

To check version of Easytag

Execute the below command to check the version of Easytag.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# easytag --version
EasyTAG 2.1.7 by Jerome Couderc (compiled 15:38:20, Jul 22 2014)
E-mail: easytag-mailing@lists.sourceforge.net
Web Page: http://easytag.sourceforge.net

To Check the exact location of Easytag

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# whereis easytag
easytag: /usr/bin/easytag /usr/share/easytag /usr/share/man/man1/easytag.1.gz

Method to use Easytag

Introduction about Easytag

Select mp3 file and view the tag associated with it.

Editing text with users our own data now seems to be very easy.

Look at the picture tag is associated with the mp3 file and also user can add new picture by clicking + option.

User can remove the picture after uploading and customizing it by removing click &ndash option.

Now save the tags to take the changes into consideration.

Same method user can edit the video files.