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1 | ABCDE |
2 | ===== |
3 | |
4 | abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that |
5 | grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC or Ogg/Speex |
6 | format, and tags them, all in one go. |
7 | |
8 | Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory of |
9 | the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the |
10 | track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and |
11 | control codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with an underscore and a |
12 | hyphen. The end result usually looks like: Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg |
13 | This filename munging is customizable - edit the mungefilename function in |
14 | your abcde.conf to change it. |
15 | |
16 | Need to go through an HTTP proxy for CDDB access? No problem, just export |
17 | your http_proxy variable first so wget/fetch/curl can see it. |
18 | |
19 | You already store CDDB entries for your CD collection on your hard disk? Piece |
20 | of cake. Just edit CDDBLOCALDIR to point to the repository and give abcde the |
21 | "-L" flag to make use of it. |
22 | |
23 | Low on disk space? abcde has different algorithms to schedule ripping and |
24 | encoding - to optimize for disk conservation, use -l. |
25 | |
26 | abcde can also take advantage of SMP systems, just like make. Try |
27 | 'abcde -j 2' - it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next |
28 | track. |
29 | |
30 | abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or |
31 | another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf. |
32 | |
33 | Frustrated that you can't use the CPU power on Machine A sitting right |
34 | next to Machine B with the fast cdrom drive? Now you don't have to be - |
35 | Run distmp3host (included in distmp3) on Machine A, and then run |
36 | abcde -r MachineA from Machine B (where "MachineA" is a dns name or IP |
37 | address). Use this in combination with '-j 0' to shift all encoding off the |
38 | local machine. |
39 | |
40 | You do not have internet connection, or just feel with free time to write |
41 | down all the song names and artists instead of using CDDB? Use -n and edit |
42 | the template. |
43 | |
44 | To make abcde 2.x work more like 1.x, put these options in your abcde.conf: |
45 | |
46 | INTERACTIVE=n |
47 | OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 |
48 | ID3TAGV=1 |
49 | |
50 | NOTICE: abcde needs cd-discid. Grab it from: |
51 | http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/ |
52 | |
53 | MAJOR CHANGES |
54 | ============= |
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55 | Changes in 2.2-pre2: |
56 | |
57 | * Support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) format. It can be downloaded from |
58 | corecodecs.org. It is supposed to be Free (not only free), and released |
59 | under the GPL... |
60 | * New "-s <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at |
61 | a given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD. |
62 | |
63 | Changes in 2.2-pre1: |
64 | |
65 | * cdparanoia permits performing a query to the CD drive and obtain a list of |
66 | valid audio tracks. So, now we perform such query and process the results. |
67 | * Support for "None of the above" has been added with the "0" selection. A |
68 | template is created, and the selection to edit it is defaulted to "y". |
69 | |
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70 | New options in 2.1.19: |
71 | |
72 | * ONETRACK mode has been introduced. Setting the flag "-1" will create a |
73 | single file with all the tracks from the CD. |
74 | |
75 | Changes in 2.1.18: |
76 | |
77 | * CDSPEED option defaults to eject. However, since cdparanoia has a built-in |
78 | option to set the speed, we use it. There is not way (right now) to force |
79 | the use of eject, but it will be introduced in a future release. Also one |
80 | can use the pre_read function to set the speed with other program. |
81 | |
82 | New options in 2.1.16: |
83 | |
84 | * -S, CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS for setting the speed of the CDROM. One can |
85 | set the options in abcde.conf and pass the value on the command line. |
86 | This option can be used with "eject -x <speed>", "setcd -x <speed>" or the |
87 | built-in cdparanoia option "-S <speed>", if the CD reader supports it. |
88 | * Added a pre-read function. Modify it at your pleasure in abcde.conf |
89 | One can use it to close the CD drive. |
90 | * -m option, to modify the playlist to include CRLF in every line. Some |
91 | players insist on having those to work properly with playlists. |
92 | |
93 | New options in 2.1.15: |
94 | |
95 | * -V can be used to obtain some more information about the CDDB queries. |
96 | * -v shows the version, basic help, and exits. |
97 | |
98 | New options from 2.1.10 to 2.1.13: |
99 | |
100 | * CDROMID has been introduced for cdda2wav use with SCSI devices. |
101 | * Use -L to retrieve the CDDB entries from a local repository (also one can |
102 | set CDDBUSELOCAL in the config file). |
103 | * If CDDBCOPYLOCAL is set to "y" we store copies of the CDDB entries, under |
104 | CDDBLOCALDIR (defaults to "~/.cddb). |
105 | |
106 | Modifications from 2.1.9 to 2.1.10: |
107 | |
108 | * Initial (still incomplete) MacOSX support is on the works. |
109 | * A new tool (curl) has been added for MacOSX compatibility, as HTTPGET |
110 | option. |
111 | |
112 | Options modified from 2.1.8 to 2.1.9: |
113 | |
114 | * KEEPWAVS option now sets the clean to "no". |
115 | |
116 | Options added/modified from 2.1.3 to 2.1.5: |
117 | |
118 | * Ogg/Speex added. Use "-o spx" to rip your audiobooks, for instance. |
119 | |
120 | Options added/modified from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3: |
121 | |
122 | * WGET has been substituted by HTTPGET. Now we support fetch as retrieval |
123 | program. |
124 | * KEEPWAVS has been introduced. Set it to "y" and the wav tracks will be |
125 | kept. |
126 | * CDDBPROTO is used to specify the protocol level in the CDDB retrieval. |
127 | * DAGRAB has been introduced as a cd ripper. |
128 | |
129 | Options added/modified from 2.0.3 to 2.1.x: |
130 | |
131 | * -b use batch processing. It uses normalize to adjust the volume of the |
132 | songs, and a -g gapless option from lame to remove gaps. Only available |
133 | for mp3+lame combination. |
134 | * a new "normalize" option has been added to -a, to normalize the volume. |
135 | * -o works now with a combination of the different outputs: ogg, mp3, flac. |
136 | Combine them separated by ",". Example: "-o ogg,flac". |
137 | * OUTPUTTYPE is no longer used for the output file type. From version 2.1 |
138 | abcde implements multiple-output and the file type is always appended at |
139 | the end of the file. The OUTPUT variable can be used in the |
140 | PLAYLISTFORMAT and OUTPUTFORMAT to create different directory structures |
141 | and playlist names for each of the output formats selected. |
142 | * DYEAR can be used as DiskYear value in CDDB data. If the data is not |
143 | supplied by the CDDB server, it can be added. |
144 | |
145 | Other options that changed from 1.x to 2.x: |
146 | |
147 | * -e doesn't exist anymore, abcde now presents you with all of the cddb data |
148 | and asks you if you want to edit it. If you don't want to be asked, |
149 | use -N or INTERACTIVE=n |
150 | * The output type defaults to Ogg/Vorbis. Specify -o mp3 or OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 |
151 | if you still want to output mp3's. |
152 | * -l 2 is now just -l, LOWDISK=2 should now be LOWDISK=y |
153 | * -V and -v are gone, abcde will now prompt you if you'd like to use Various |
154 | Artists handling, after showing you the cddb data. |
155 | * -P is now '-a playlist,clean', PLAYLISTONLY=y is now |
156 | ACTIONS=playlist,clean |
157 | * -p is now '-a playlist,move,clean', PLAYLIST=y is now |
158 | ACTIONS=playlist,move,clean |
159 | * cddb-tool has been cleaned up a little bit. 'get' is now 'query' and |
160 | 'read', and the tempfile handling has been removed. |
161 | * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT. |
162 | * FreeDB is now the default CDDB database. |
163 | |
164 | |
165 | REQUIREMENTS |
166 | ============ |
167 | |
168 | abcde requires the following backend tools to work: |
169 | |
170 | * An Ogg/Vorbis encoder (oggenc, the default, or vorbize) or: |
171 | * An MP3 encoder (lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, etc). Any MP3 encoder that |
172 | takes two filenames on the command line, one for input, one for output, |
173 | will work. |
174 | You can get lame at: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ |
175 | You can get gogo at: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html |
176 | You can get BladeEnc at: http://bladeenc.mp3.no/ |
177 | You can get a trial version of mp3enc at: |
178 | http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or: |
179 | * FLAC encoder (flac) or: |
180 | * Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) |
181 | * normalize for volume normalization. |
182 | * CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility, |
183 | * Or cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from, |
184 | * Or dagrab, another audio CD reading utility. |
185 | * cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program. Formerly bundled with abcde. |
186 | It's available in Debian or http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/ |
187 | * An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (MacOSX) |
188 | * id3, an id3 tagging program. Available at: http://lly.org/~rcw/id3/ |
189 | * id3v2, an id3 version 2.0 tagger. http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ |
190 | * (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding. |
191 | You can get distmp3 at http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/medlprog.html |
192 | |
193 | Potential problems: |
194 | |
195 | Having trouble getting cdparanoia to read from your drive as a user? |
196 | Add yourself to the cdrom group, change the permissions on your cdrom device |
197 | to 660, and if you have a SCSI cdrom drive, check the permissions on |
198 | /dev/sg* as well. |
199 | |
200 | Running out of disk space for .wav files but don't want to use -l? Put them |
201 | in a different location by adding WAVOUTPUTDIR=/some/other/path to your |
202 | /etc/abcde.conf or ~/.abcde.conf. |
203 | |
204 | If abcde seems to be ignoring your configuration options or not running |
205 | commands such as the encoder, you may have misquoted something. Config |
206 | options such as the following do not work: |
207 | |
208 | LAMEOPTS=-h -k |
209 | |
210 | Try this instead: |
211 | |
212 | LAMEOPTS='-h -k' |
213 | |
214 | Abcde's new mailing list is abcde@listas.hispalinux.es. So far has not |
215 | been actively used. |
216 | The posts from non-subscribers are moderated to prevent spam. |
217 | |
218 | Archives of the old list are publically available at: |
219 | http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/list/current/threads.html |
220 | |
221 | Abcde's current page is at http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php |
222 | Abcde's new homepage will be at http://abcde.hispalinux.es/. |
223 | Abcde's old homepage is at http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/. |
224 | -- |
225 | Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> |
226 | Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> |