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1 | .TH abcde 1 |
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2 | .SH NAME |
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3 | abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format. |
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4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
5 | .B abcde |
6 | .I [options] [tracks] |
7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
8 | Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then |
9 | tagging or commenting it, is very involved. |
10 | .BR abcde |
11 | is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into |
12 | a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless |
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13 | Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack). With one command, it will: |
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14 | .TP |
15 | .B * |
16 | Do a CDDB query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry |
17 | .TP |
18 | .B * |
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19 | Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD |
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20 | .TP |
21 | .B * |
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22 | Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit) |
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23 | .TP |
24 | .B * |
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25 | Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format(s), all in one CD read |
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26 | .TP |
27 | .B * |
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28 | Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag |
29 | .TP |
30 | .B * |
31 | Give an intelligible filename |
32 | .TP |
33 | .B * |
34 | Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit) |
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35 | .TP |
36 | .B * |
37 | Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use) |
38 | .TP |
39 | .B * |
40 | Repeat until finished |
41 | .SH OPTIONS |
42 | .TP |
43 | .B \-1 |
44 | Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title |
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45 | for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embeded cuesheet, |
46 | the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. |
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47 | .TP |
48 | .B \-a [actions] |
49 | Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: |
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50 | cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize |
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51 | and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies |
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52 | cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move. |
53 | Playlist implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize, |
54 | replaygain and playlist. |
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55 | .TP |
56 | .B \-b |
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57 | Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable. |
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58 | .TP |
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59 | .B \-B |
60 | Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain |
61 | information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration vatiable. |
62 | .TP |
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63 | .B \-c [filename] |
64 | Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options |
65 | in this file override those in /etc/abcde.conf or $HOME/.abcde.conf. |
66 | .TP |
67 | .B \-C [discid] |
68 | Allows you to resume a session for |
69 | .I discid |
70 | when you no longer have the CD available (abcde will automatically resume if |
71 | you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at |
72 | least the "read" action during the previous session. |
73 | .TP |
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74 | .B \-d [devicename | filename] |
75 | CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a |
76 | single-track flac file with embeded cuesheet. |
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77 | .TP |
78 | .B \-D |
79 | Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D |
80 | 2>logfile') |
81 | .TP |
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82 | .B \-e |
83 | Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable |
84 | other encodings if the wav files have been kept. |
85 | .TP |
86 | .B \-g |
87 | Enable lame's \-\-nogap option. See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's |
88 | \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is required for mp3 players to |
89 | correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files. |
90 | .TP |
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91 | .B \-h |
92 | Get help information. |
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93 | .TP |
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94 | .B \-j [number] |
95 | Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides |
96 | the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using distmp3 to avoid |
97 | local encoding processes. |
98 | .TP |
99 | .B \-k |
100 | Keep the wav files after encoding. |
101 | .TP |
102 | .B \-l |
103 | Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable. |
104 | .TP |
105 | .B \-L |
106 | Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable. |
107 | .TP |
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108 | .B \-n |
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109 | Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to |
110 | provide song names, artist(s), ... |
111 | .TP |
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112 | .B \-N |
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113 | Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead. |
114 | .TP |
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115 | .B \-m |
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116 | Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line |
117 | endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work. |
118 | .TP |
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119 | .B \-M |
120 | Create a CUE file with information about the CD. Together with the possibility |
121 | of creating a single file (see option "\-1"), one can recreate the original CD. |
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122 | If the cuesheet is embeded in a flac single file it can be used as source for |
123 | encoding other formats. |
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124 | .TP |
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125 | .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions] |
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126 | Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc" or |
127 | "wav". Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified |
128 | types. See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the |
129 | encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a |
130 | colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes. |
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131 | .TP |
132 | .B \-p |
133 | Pads track numbers with 0\'s. |
134 | .TP |
135 | .B \-r [hosts...] |
136 | Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See |
137 | the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable. |
138 | .TP |
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139 | .B \-s [fields...] |
140 | List, separated by comas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries. |
141 | Right now it only uses "year" and "genre". |
142 | .TP |
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143 | .B \-S [speed] |
144 | Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly |
145 | and both the program and device must support the capability. |
146 | .TP |
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147 | .B \-t [number] |
148 | Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the |
149 | filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same. |
150 | .TP |
151 | .B \-T [number] |
152 | Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that |
153 | the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T. |
154 | .TP |
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155 | .B \-u |
156 | Set CDDBPROTOCOL to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB |
157 | information, and we tag and add comments with a proper encoding. This flag will |
158 | be removed and -U will be added to set it to version 5 once version 6 becomes |
159 | the default. |
160 | .TP |
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161 | .B \-v |
162 | Show the version and exit |
163 | .TP |
164 | .B \-V |
165 | Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the |
166 | sensation nothins is happening. |
167 | .TP |
168 | .B \-x |
169 | Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration |
170 | variable. |
171 | .TP |
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172 | .B \-w [comment] |
173 | Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD. |
174 | .TP |
175 | .B \-W [number] |
176 | Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and |
177 | to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". |
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178 | .TP |
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179 | .B \-z |
180 | DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second of each track |
181 | and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some |
182 | "hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL |
183 | ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING! |
184 | .TP |
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185 | .B [tracks] |
186 | A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde |
187 | will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers - |
188 | "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9. |
189 | .SH OUTPUT |
190 | Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track |
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191 | in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory. |
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192 | This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT |
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193 | variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying |
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194 | its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', or '.wav'. |
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195 | .SH CONFIGURATION |
196 | abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and |
197 | $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order. |
198 | .TP |
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199 | The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing |
200 | the appropiate flags at runtime. |
201 | .TP |
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202 | The configuration variables have to be set as follows: |
203 | .TP |
204 | .B VARIABLE=value |
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205 | Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other |
206 | variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration |
207 | file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be |
208 | expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used. |
209 | .TP |
210 | All sh escaping/quoting rules apply. |
211 | .TP |
212 | Here is a list of options abcde recognizes: |
213 | .TP |
214 | .B CDDBURL |
215 | Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups. |
216 | .TP |
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217 | .B HELLOINFO |
218 | Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB |
219 | protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you |
220 | connect. The format of this is username@hostname. |
221 | .TP |
222 | .B CDDBLOCALDIR |
223 | Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must |
224 | be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other |
225 | CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb |
226 | and we can make use of those entries. |
227 | .TP |
228 | .B CDDBCOPYLOCAL |
229 | Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory. |
230 | .TP |
231 | .B CDDBUSELOCAL |
232 | Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the |
233 | "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give |
234 | the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet. |
235 | .TP |
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236 | .B SHOWCDDBFIELDS |
237 | Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing. |
238 | Defaults to "year,genre". |
239 | .TP |
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240 | .B OGGENCODERSYNTAX |
241 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options |
242 | are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'. |
243 | This affects the default location of the binary, |
244 | the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options |
245 | are given. |
246 | .TP |
247 | .B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX |
248 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are |
249 | \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'. |
250 | Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis. |
251 | .TP |
252 | .B FLACENCODERSYNTAX |
253 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only |
254 | \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding. |
255 | .TP |
256 | .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX |
257 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only |
258 | \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding. |
259 | .TP |
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260 | .B MPPENCODERSYNTAX |
261 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this |
262 | point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org. |
263 | .TP |
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264 | .B NORMALIZERSYNTAX |
265 | Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\' |
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266 | and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it, |
267 | ATM. |
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268 | .TP |
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269 | .B CDROMREADERSYNTAX |
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270 | Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\', |
271 | \'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of |
272 | valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is used to "rip" CD |
273 | tracks from a single-track flac file. |
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274 | .TP |
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275 | .B CUEREADERSYNTAX |
276 | Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now |
277 | we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used. |
278 | .TP |
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279 | .B KEEPWAVS |
280 | It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD, |
281 | set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default |
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282 | behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav |
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283 | files even you have requested the "clean" action. |
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284 | .TP |
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285 | .B PADTRACKS |
286 | If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number |
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287 | holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9. |
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288 | .TP |
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289 | .B INTERACTIVE |
290 | Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention. |
291 | .TP |
292 | .B NICE VALUES |
293 | Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry |
294 | processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder |
295 | with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE). |
296 | .TP |
297 | .B PATHNAMES |
298 | The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their |
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299 | respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, |
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300 | VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC, |
301 | CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, |
302 | VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC, |
303 | DIFF and HTTPGET. |
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304 | .TP |
305 | .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS |
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306 | If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde uses, |
307 | set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS, |
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308 | BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS, |
309 | FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS, |
310 | CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS, |
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311 | CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS, DIFFOPTS and |
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312 | HTTPGETOPTS. |
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313 | .TP |
314 | .B CDSPEEDVALUE |
315 | Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as |
316 | the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s |
317 | (1x). |
318 | .TP |
319 | .B ACTIONS |
320 | The default actions to be performed when reading a disc. |
321 | .TP |
322 | .B CDROM |
323 | If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio |
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324 | extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special |
325 | \'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file. |
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326 | .TP |
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327 | .B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS |
328 | Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as "g" when using |
329 | cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer. |
330 | .TP |
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331 | .B OUTPUTDIR |
332 | Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in. |
333 | .TP |
334 | .B WAVOUTPUTDIR |
335 | Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up |
336 | to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use |
337 | over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it). |
338 | .TP |
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339 | .B OUTPUTTYPE |
340 | Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and |
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341 | encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg") |
342 | (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio |
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343 | Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)) or "wav" (Microsoft |
344 | Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and |
345 | MP3 formats. |
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346 | .br |
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347 | For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding, |
348 | tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create |
349 | different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will |
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350 | be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define. |
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351 | For example |
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352 | .br |
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353 | OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}' |
354 | .TP |
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355 | .B OUTPUTFORMAT |
356 | Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+ |
357 | (Musepack) filenames. |
358 | Variables are included |
359 | using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, |
360 | TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is |
361 | \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'. |
362 | Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is |
363 | automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than |
364 | 9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line. |
365 | .TP |
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366 | .B VAOUTPUTFORMAT |
367 | Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever |
368 | OUTPUTFORMAT is set to. |
369 | .TP |
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370 | .B MAXPROCS |
371 | Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups |
372 | on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum |
373 | efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using |
374 | mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host. |
375 | .TP |
376 | .B LOWDISK |
377 | If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after |
378 | reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but |
379 | requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an |
380 | entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as |
381 | quickly as it can read. |
382 | .TP |
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383 | .B BATCHNORM |
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384 | If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative |
385 | volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding |
386 | when using the \'lame\' encoder. |
387 | .TP |
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388 | .B NOGAP |
389 | Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no |
390 | silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable |
391 | gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is |
392 | required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing |
393 | variable-bit-rate mp3 files. |
394 | .TP |
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395 | .B PLAYLISTFORMAT |
396 | Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the |
397 | OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is |
398 | \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'. |
399 | Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. |
400 | .TP |
401 | .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX |
402 | Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http |
403 | playlists, etc. |
404 | .TP |
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405 | .B DOSPLAYLIST |
406 | If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some |
407 | hardware-based players. |
408 | .TP |
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409 | .B COMMENT |
410 | Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each |
411 | finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same |
412 | syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2. |
413 | .TP |
414 | .B REMOTEHOSTS |
415 | Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using |
416 | distmp3. Equivalent to -r. |
417 | .TP |
418 | .B mungefilename |
419 | mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via |
420 | abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on |
421 | stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and |
422 | question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and |
423 | translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen. |
424 | .br |
425 | If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward |
426 | slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as |
427 | the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and |
428 | newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable). |
429 | .TP |
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430 | .B mungegenre |
431 | mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As |
432 | a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value |
433 | to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase. |
434 | .TP |
435 | .B pre_read |
436 | pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read |
437 | for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM |
438 | tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other |
439 | preparation actions. The default function is empty. |
440 | .TP |
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441 | .B post_read |
442 | post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read |
443 | (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC |
444 | from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist). |
445 | The default function is empty. |
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447 | .B EJECTCD |
448 | If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive |
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449 | after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac |
450 | file. |
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451 | .TP |
452 | .B EXTRAVERBOSE |
453 | If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user |
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454 | are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your |
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455 | network/CDDB server is slow. |
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456 | .SH EXAMPLES |
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457 | Possible ways one can call abcde |
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458 | .TP |
459 | .B abcde |
460 | Will work in most systems |
461 | .TP |
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462 | .B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2 |
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463 | If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems) |
464 | .TP |
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465 | .B abcde \-o vorbis,flac |
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466 | Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files. |
467 | .TP |
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468 | .B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192" |
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469 | Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the |
470 | config file |
471 | .TP |
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472 | .B abcde \-W 1 |
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473 | For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number |
474 | 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201 |
475 | and so on. |
476 | .TP |
477 | .B abcde \-d singletrack.flac |
478 | Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embeded cuesheet. |
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479 | .SH BACKEND TOOLS |
480 | abcde requires the following backend tools to work: |
481 | .TP |
482 | .B * |
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483 | An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc) |
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484 | .TP |
485 | .B * |
486 | An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab) |
487 | .TP |
488 | .B * |
489 | cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program. |
490 | .TP |
491 | .B * |
492 | An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others). |
493 | .TP |
494 | .B * |
495 | (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs. |
496 | .TP |
497 | .B * |
498 | (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding. |
499 | .TP |
500 | .B * |
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501 | (optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer. |
502 | .TP |
503 | .B * |
504 | (optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain), |
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505 | .TP |
506 | .B * |
507 | (optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor. |
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508 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
509 | .BR cdparanoia (1), |
510 | .BR cdda2wav (1), |
511 | .BR dagrab (1), |
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512 | .BR normalize-audio (1), |
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513 | .BR oggenc (1), |
514 | .BR vorbize (1), |
515 | .BR flac (1), |
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516 | .BR toolame (1), |
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517 | .BR speexenc (1), |
518 | .BR mppenc (1), |
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519 | .BR id3 (1), |
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520 | .BR id3v2 (1), |
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521 | .BR wget (1), |
522 | .BR fetch (1), |
523 | .BR cd-discid (1), |
524 | .BR distmp3 (1), |
525 | .BR distmp3host (1), |
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526 | .BR curl (1), |
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527 | .BR mkcue (1), |
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528 | .BR vorbisgain (1), |
529 | .BR mp3gain (1) |
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530 | .SH AUTHORS |
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531 | Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>, |
532 | Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others. |