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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 * |
19 | Grab a track from your CD |
20 | .TP |
21 | .B * |
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22 | Compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format |
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23 | .TP |
24 | .B * |
25 | Comment or ID3 tag it |
26 | .TP |
27 | .B * |
28 | Give it an intelligible filename |
29 | .TP |
30 | .B * |
31 | Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use) |
32 | .TP |
33 | .B * |
34 | Repeat until finished |
35 | .SH OPTIONS |
36 | .TP |
37 | .B \-1 |
38 | Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title |
39 | for tagging. |
40 | .TP |
41 | .B \-a [actions] |
42 | Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: |
43 | cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, playlist, clean. Normalize |
44 | and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies |
45 | cddb, read, encode, tag. Playlist implies cddb. The default is to |
46 | do all actions except normalize and playlist. |
47 | .TP |
48 | .B \-b |
49 | Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCH configuration variable. |
50 | .TP |
51 | .B \-c [filename] |
52 | Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options |
53 | in this file override those in /etc/abcde.conf or $HOME/.abcde.conf. |
54 | .TP |
55 | .B \-C [discid] |
56 | Allows you to resume a session for |
57 | .I discid |
58 | when you no longer have the CD available (abcde will automatically resume if |
59 | you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at |
60 | least the "read" action during the previous session. |
61 | .TP |
62 | .B \-d [devicename] |
63 | CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. |
64 | .TP |
65 | .B \-D |
66 | Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D |
67 | 2>logfile') |
68 | .TP |
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69 | .B \-h |
70 | Get help information. |
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71 | .TP |
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72 | .B \-j [number] |
73 | Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides |
74 | the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using distmp3 to avoid |
75 | local encoding processes. |
76 | .TP |
77 | .B \-k |
78 | Keep the wav files after encoding. |
79 | .TP |
80 | .B \-l |
81 | Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable. |
82 | .TP |
83 | .B \-L |
84 | Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable. |
85 | .TP |
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86 | .B \-n |
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87 | Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to |
88 | provide song names, artist(s), ... |
89 | .TP |
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90 | .B \-N |
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91 | Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead. |
92 | .TP |
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93 | .B \-m |
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94 | Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line |
95 | endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work. |
96 | .TP |
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97 | .B \-M |
98 | Create a CUE file with information about the CD. Together with the possibility |
99 | of creating a single file (see option "\-1"), one can recreate the original CD. |
100 | .TP |
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101 | .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions] |
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102 | Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc". |
103 | Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types. |
104 | See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the encoder |
105 | for a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a colon. The |
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106 | options must be escaped with double-quotes. |
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107 | .TP |
108 | .B \-p |
109 | Pads track numbers with 0\'s. |
110 | .TP |
111 | .B \-r [hosts...] |
112 | Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See |
113 | the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable. |
114 | .TP |
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115 | .B \-R |
116 | Add replaygain information to the id3 or tag information for play |
117 | normalization. Only works with MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. |
118 | .TP |
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119 | .B \-S [speed] |
120 | Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly |
121 | and both the program and device must support the capability. |
122 | .TP |
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123 | .B \-t [number] |
124 | Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the |
125 | filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same. |
126 | .TP |
127 | .B \-T [number] |
128 | Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that |
129 | the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T. |
130 | .TP |
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131 | .B \-v |
132 | Show the version and exit |
133 | .TP |
134 | .B \-V |
135 | Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the |
136 | sensation nothins is happening. |
137 | .TP |
138 | .B \-x |
139 | Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration |
140 | variable. |
141 | .TP |
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142 | .B \-w [comment] |
143 | Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD. |
144 | .TP |
145 | .B \-W [number] |
146 | Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and |
147 | to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". |
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148 | .TP |
149 | .B [tracks] |
150 | A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde |
151 | will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers - |
152 | "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9. |
153 | .SH OUTPUT |
154 | Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track |
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155 | in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory. |
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156 | This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT |
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157 | variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying |
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158 | its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'. |
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159 | .SH CONFIGURATION |
160 | abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and |
161 | $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order. |
162 | .TP |
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163 | The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing |
164 | the appropiate flags at runtime. |
165 | .TP |
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166 | The configuration variables have to be set as follows: |
167 | .TP |
168 | .B VARIABLE=value |
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169 | Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other |
170 | variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration |
171 | file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be |
172 | expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used. |
173 | .TP |
174 | All sh escaping/quoting rules apply. |
175 | .TP |
176 | Here is a list of options abcde recognizes: |
177 | .TP |
178 | .B CDDBURL |
179 | Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups. |
180 | .TP |
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181 | .B HELLOINFO |
182 | Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB |
183 | protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you |
184 | connect. The format of this is username@hostname. |
185 | .TP |
186 | .B CDDBLOCALDIR |
187 | Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must |
188 | be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other |
189 | CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb |
190 | and we can make use of those entries. |
191 | .TP |
192 | .B CDDBCOPYLOCAL |
193 | Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory. |
194 | .TP |
195 | .B CDDBUSELOCAL |
196 | Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the |
197 | "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give |
198 | the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet. |
199 | .TP |
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200 | .B OGGENCODERSYNTAX |
201 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options |
202 | are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'. |
203 | This affects the default location of the binary, |
204 | the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options |
205 | are given. |
206 | .TP |
207 | .B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX |
208 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are |
209 | \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'. |
210 | Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis. |
211 | .TP |
212 | .B FLACENCODERSYNTAX |
213 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only |
214 | \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding. |
215 | .TP |
216 | .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX |
217 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only |
218 | \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding. |
219 | .TP |
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220 | .B MPPENCODERSYNTAX |
221 | Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this |
222 | point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org. |
223 | .TP |
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224 | .B NORMALIZERSYNTAX |
225 | Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\' |
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226 | and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it, |
227 | ATM. |
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228 | .TP |
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229 | .B CDROMREADERSYNTAX |
230 | Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\' |
231 | and \'debug\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of valid |
232 | tracks and DATA tracks. Right now, only cdparanoia is supported. |
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233 | .TP |
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234 | .B KEEPWAVS |
235 | It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD, |
236 | set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default |
237 | behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is the keep the temporary directory and the wav |
238 | files even you have requested the "clean" action. |
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239 | .TP |
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240 | .B PADTRACKS |
241 | If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number |
242 | holder. Usefull when encoding tracks 1-9. |
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243 | .TP |
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244 | .B INTERACTIVE |
245 | Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention. |
246 | .TP |
247 | .B NICE VALUES |
248 | Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry |
249 | processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder |
250 | with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE). |
251 | .TP |
252 | .B PATHNAMES |
253 | The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their |
254 | respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, VORBIZE, |
255 | OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, |
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256 | CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, |
257 | VORBISGAIN, MKCUE and HTTPGET. |
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258 | .TP |
259 | .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS |
260 | If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde |
261 | uses, set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS, |
262 | BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS, |
263 | FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS, |
264 | CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS, |
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265 | CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS. |
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266 | .TP |
267 | .B CDSPEEDVALUE |
268 | Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as |
269 | the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s |
270 | (1x). |
271 | .TP |
272 | .B ACTIONS |
273 | The default actions to be performed when reading a disc. |
274 | .TP |
275 | .B CDROM |
276 | If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio |
277 | extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. |
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278 | .TP |
279 | .B OUTPUTDIR |
280 | Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in. |
281 | .TP |
282 | .B WAVOUTPUTDIR |
283 | Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up |
284 | to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use |
285 | over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it). |
286 | .TP |
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287 | .B OUTPUTTYPE |
288 | Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and |
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289 | encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg") |
290 | (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio |
291 | Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex) and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like |
292 | "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. |
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293 | .br |
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294 | For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding, |
295 | tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create |
296 | different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will |
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297 | be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define. |
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298 | For example |
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299 | .br |
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300 | OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}' |
301 | .TP |
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302 | .B OUTPUTFORMAT |
303 | Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+ |
304 | (Musepack) filenames. |
305 | Variables are included |
306 | using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, |
307 | TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is |
308 | \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'. |
309 | Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is |
310 | automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than |
311 | 9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line. |
312 | .TP |
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313 | .B VAOUTPUTFORMAT |
314 | Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever |
315 | OUTPUTFORMAT is set to. |
316 | .TP |
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317 | .B MAXPROCS |
318 | Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups |
319 | on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum |
320 | efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using |
321 | mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host. |
322 | .TP |
323 | .B LOWDISK |
324 | If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after |
325 | reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but |
326 | requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an |
327 | entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as |
328 | quickly as it can read. |
329 | .TP |
330 | .B BATCH |
331 | If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative |
332 | volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding |
333 | when using the \'lame\' encoder. |
334 | .TP |
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335 | .B PLAYLISTFORMAT |
336 | Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the |
337 | OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is |
338 | \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'. |
339 | Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. |
340 | .TP |
341 | .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX |
342 | Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http |
343 | playlists, etc. |
344 | .TP |
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345 | .B DOSPLAYLIST |
346 | If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some |
347 | hardware-based players. |
348 | .TP |
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349 | .B COMMENT |
350 | Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each |
351 | finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same |
352 | syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2. |
353 | .TP |
354 | .B REMOTEHOSTS |
355 | Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using |
356 | distmp3. Equivalent to -r. |
357 | .TP |
358 | .B mungefilename |
359 | mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via |
360 | abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on |
361 | stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and |
362 | question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and |
363 | translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen. |
364 | .br |
365 | If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward |
366 | slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as |
367 | the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and |
368 | newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable). |
369 | .TP |
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370 | .B mungegenre |
371 | mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As |
372 | a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value |
373 | to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase. |
374 | .TP |
375 | .B pre_read |
376 | pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read |
377 | for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM |
378 | tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other |
379 | preparation actions. The default function is empty. |
380 | .TP |
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381 | .B EJECTCD |
382 | If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive |
383 | after all tracks have been read. |
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384 | .TP |
385 | .B EXTRAVERBOSE |
386 | If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user |
387 | are visible, such as CDDB queries. Usefull for initial debug and if your |
388 | network/CDDB server is slow. |
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389 | .SH EXAMPLES |
390 |