Mp3gain frontend for KDE?

[MintHawk]

Hey, everyone.
I’m trying to find a KDE front-end for mp3gain.
I have already installed it on XFCE (MX Linux) on my laptop but on my desktop I can’t seem to find anything suitable, although I’ve installed the mp3gain back-end.
Someone in the KDE forum suggested this: https://discuss.kde.org/t/mp3gain-front ... -kde/37922 but it can't be installed and I don't know the reason.
Any ideas?

[j2mcgreg]

Hey, everyone.
I’m trying to find a KDE front-end for mp3gain.
I have already installed it on XFCE (MX Linux) on my laptop but on my desktop I can’t seem to find anything suitable, although I’ve installed the mp3gain back-end.
Someone in the KDE forum suggested this: https://discuss.kde.org/t/mp3gain-front ... -kde/37922 but it can't be installed and I don't know the reason.
Any ideas?

QSI please.

[MintHawk]

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System:
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The final suggestion was qmp3gain as an Appimage as I can't install Easymp3gain.

[Stevo]

I think you installed it, but its menu entry says not to show up on KDE menus:

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NotShowIn=KDE;

Can you start it from the terminal with :easymp3gain-gtk" ?

[sunrat]

I have been using soundKonverter for years for conversion and gain functions. It supports mp3gain.
It is still available in Bookworm repo so will be available in MX-23, but seems to have been dropped for Trixie. It is still available and useable in my test dual boot of Trixie which was upgraded from Bookworm. I think it depends on Qt5 packages whereas Trixie has moved mainly to Qt6.