mp3diags command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mp3diags command not found error message

Introduction

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

mp3diags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mp3diags: command not found

Solutions to mp3diags: command not found

How To Fix mp3diags: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mp3diags is provided by mp3diags package.

mp3diags is:

MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also allows user to “look inside” an MP3 file.

Unlike some programs that are designed to deal with a single topic (like fixing VBR headers or adding cover art), MP3 Diags is a one stop solution that identifies more than 50 different issues in MP3 files and provides the means to fix many of them.

Some of the more important issues that are found:

  • Broken tags / headers / audio.
  • Duplicate tags / headers.
  • Incorrect placement of tags / headers (ID3V2, ID3V1, LAME, Xing, etc).
  • Low quality audio.
  • Missing VBR header.
  • Missing track info / cover art.
  • Broken track info / cover art.
  • Missing normalization data.
  • Character encoding issues (for languages other than English).

Some of the fixes and changes that MP3 Diags can do:

  • Adding / fixing track info, including album cover; information can be retrieved from several sources: Internet, clipboard, file name, local files, and (obviously) keyboard.
  • Correcting files that show incorrect song duration.
  • Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly.
  • Converting characters for non-English names.
  • Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don’t handle the composer field.
  • Renaming files based on their fields.
  • Changing word case for track info.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mp3diags

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

You can also use apt command to install mp3diags.

sudo apt -y install mp3diags

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

sudo aptitude install mp3diags

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mp3diags command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.