Aaxtomp3 only looks available

Nix is the art of containers without actually using containers.

You can mix unstable and stable packages quite easily on your system without fear of getting your system into a unrecoverable mess.

In this case you have aaxtomp3 from unstable, and leave the rest of your system on stable.

@TLATER has a in depth explanation of this. Installing multiple packages from unstable channel in configuration.nix - #2 by TLATER

I’d avoid using nix-env to do it, and just do it from your system configuration.

If your using flakes for your system configuration , it’s even easier to add an inputs to stable and unstable nixpkgs, and pull in packages from both.

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