id3ren command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

id3ren: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: id3ren: command not found

Solutions to id3ren: command not found

How To Fix id3ren: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu id3ren is provided by id3ren package.

id3ren is:

Tool used to rename batches of mpeg3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment.

The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or remove ID3 tags. The id3 fields can be set on the command line, entered interactively, or “guessed” from the path and the filename.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install id3ren

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install id3ren.

sudo apt -y install id3ren

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install id3ren

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix id3ren command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.