How to Install Mutagen for Python on Windows?

There are many important python modules or packages from which Mutagen is used for handling the audio metadata also known as music metadata, it is an independent python standard library and is available open source and free for windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems, etc. Here we will learn how to install the Mutagen module on the windows operating system.

Pre Requisites

Here are some prerequisites to install the Mutagen module on Windows:

• Python
• PIP or Conda (depending upon user preference)

Installing Mutagen on Windows

There are two methods of installing Mutagen on Windows, by using PIP and by using Conda. Following are the installation steps for the same:

Method 1: Installing using PIP

Step 1: User who wants to use pip for installing the Mutagen module on Windows in the command prompt has to use the command:

pip install mutagen

Once the installation is successfully completed a user gets a message the same as shown picture.

Step 2: For verifying that mutagen was successfully installed on the system with the pip, run a command in the command window.

pip show mutagen

Output: 

Method 2: Installing Mutagen by using Conda

Step 1: Users which use conda to install the peewee module on windows follow these commands in the command window:

conda install -c conda-forge mutagen

Enter Y when prompted for yes. Once the installation is completed, the user gets the message as shown in the picture.

Step 2: For verifying that mutagen was successfully installed on the system with conda, run a command in the command window.

conda list mutagen

Output: