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1.TH abcde 1
2.SH NAME
3abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B abcde
6.I [options] [tracks]
7.SH DESCRIPTION
8Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then
9tagging or commenting it, is very involved.
10.BR abcde
11is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into
12a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless
13Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A (AAC) format(s).
14With one command, it will:
15.TP
16.B *
17Do a CDDB or Musicbrainz query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry
18.TP
19.B *
20Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
21.TP
22.B *
23Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
24.TP
25.B *
26Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A format(s), all in one CD read
27.TP
28.B *
29Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
30.TP
31.B *
32Give an intelligible filename
33.TP
34.B *
35Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
36.TP
37.B *
38Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
39.TP
40.B *
41Repeat until finished
42.P
43Alternatively,
44.B abcde
45can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded
46cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be
47treated as if it was the original CD. In a way,
48.B abcde
49can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
50.SH OPTIONS
51.TP
52.B \-1
53Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
54for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embedded cuesheet,
55the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "\-1 \-o
56flac \-a default,cue" for obtaining such a file.
57.TP
58.B \-a [actions]
59Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: cddb, cue,
60read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize and
61encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies cddb, read,
62encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move. Playlist
63implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except cue, normalize,
64replaygain and playlist.
65.TP
66.B \-b
67Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable.
68.TP
69.B \-B
70Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain
71information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration variable.
72.TP
73.B \-c [filename]
74Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
75in this file override those in \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR or \fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR.
76.TP
77.B \-C [discid]
78Allows you to resume a session for
79.I discid
80when you no longer have the CD available (\fBabcde\fR will automatically resume if
81you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at
82least the "read" action during the previous session.
83.TP
84.B \-d [devicename | filename]
85CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a
86single-track flac file with embedded cuesheet.
87.TP
88.B \-D
89Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
902>logfile')
91.TP
92.B \-e
93Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable
94other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
95.TP
96.B \-f
97Force the removal of the temporary ABCDETEMPDIR directory, even when we have
98not finished. For example, one can read and encode several formats, including
99\'.ogg\', and later on execute a \'move\' action with only one of the given
100formats. On a normal situation it would erase the rest of those encoded
101formats. In this case, \fBabcde\fR will refuse to execute such command, except if \-f
102is used.
103.TP
104.B \-g
105Enable lame's \-\-nogap option. See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's
106\-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is required for mp3 players to
107correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
108.TP
109.B \-h
110Get help information.
111.TP
112.B \-j [number]
113Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides
114the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using \fBdistmp3\fR to avoid
115local encoding processes.
116.TP
117.B \-k
118Keep the wav files after encoding.
119.TP
120.B \-l
121Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable.
122.TP
123.B \-L
124Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
125.TP
126.B \-n
127Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
128provide song names, artist(s), ...
129.TP
130.B \-N
131Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
132.TP
133.B \-m
134Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
135endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
136.TP
137.B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
138Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc",
139"m4a" or "wav". Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all
140specified types. See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass
141options to the encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating
142them with a colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
143.TP
144.B \-p
145Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
146.TP
147.B \-P
148Use Unix PIPES to read and encode in one step. It disables multiple encodings,
149since the WAV audio file is never stored in the disc.
150.TP
151.B \-q [quality]
152Use a pre-defined quality level for the encoding process. Defined as low,
153medium or high. The "medium" value is used to reset the default values if other
154are used in the config file(s).
155.TP
156.B \-r [hosts...]
157Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using \fBdistmp3\fR. See
158the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
159.TP
160.B \-R
161When CDDBLOCALDIR and CDDBUSELOCAL are defined, search recursively under the
162defined directory for matches of the CDDB entry.
163.TP
164.B \-s [fields...]
165List, separated by commas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
166Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
167.TP
168.B \-S [speed]
169Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
170and both the program and device must support the capability.
171.TP
172.B \-t [number]
173Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the
174filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same.
175.TP
176.B \-T [number]
177Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
178the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
179.TP
180.B \-U
181Set CDDBPROTO to version 5, so that we retrieve ISO-8859-15 encoded CDDB
182information, and we tag and add comments with Latin1 encoding.
183.TP
184.B \-v
185Show the version and exit
186.TP
187.B \-V
188Be more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
189sensation nothing is happening. Add this more than once to make things
190even more verbose.
191.TP
192.B \-x
193Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
194variable.
195.TP
196.B \-X [cue2discid]
197Use an alternative "cue2discid" implementation. The name of the binary must be
198exactly that. \fBabcde\fR comes with an implementation in python under the examples
199directory. The special keyword "builtin" forces the usage of the internal
200(default) implementation in shell script.
201.TP
202.B \-w [comment]
203Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
204.TP
205.B \-W [number]
206Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
207to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". For Ogg/Vorbis and
208FLAC files, it also defines a DISCNUMBER tag.
209.TP
210.B \-z
211DEBUG mode: it will rip, using \fBcdparanoia\fR, the very first second of each track
212and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some
213"hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL
214ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
215.TP
216.B [tracks]
217A list of tracks you want \fBabcde\fR to process. If this isn't specified, \fBabcde\fR
218will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
219"abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
220.SH OUTPUT
221Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
222in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
223This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
224variables in your \fIabcde.conf\fR. Each file is given an extension identifying
225its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', '.aac' or '.wav'.
226.SH CONFIGURATION
227\fBabcde\fR sources two configuration files on startup - \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR and
228\fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR, in that order.
229.PP
230The configuration options stated in those files can be overridden by providing
231the appropriate flags at runtime.
232.PP
233The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
234.TP
235.B VARIABLE=value
236Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other
237variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration
238file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
239expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
240.TP
241All shell escaping/quoting rules apply.
242.TP
243Here is a list of options \fBabcde\fR recognizes:
244.TP
245.B CDDBMETHOD
246Specifies the method we want to use to retrieve the track information. Two
247values are recognized: "cddb" and "musicbrainz". The "cddb" value needs the
248CDDBURL and HELLOINFO variables described below. The "musicbrainz" value uses
249the Perl helper script \fBabcde-musicbrainz-tool\fR to establish a
250conversation with the Musicbrainz server for information retrieval.
251.TP
252.B CDDBURL
253Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
254.TP
255.B CDDBPROTO
256Specifies the protocol version used for the CDDB retrieval of results. Version
2576 retrieves CDDB entries in UTF-8 format.
258.TP
259.B HELLOINFO
260Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
261protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
262connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
263.TP
264.B CDDBLOCALDIR
265Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
266be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
267CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under \fI~/.cddb\fR
268and we can make use of those entries.
269.TP
270.B CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
271Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has to be searched recursively trying to find a
272match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL
273is selected, it will be copied to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if
274CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified" or "new".
275.TP
276.B CDDBLOCALPOLICY
277Defines when a CDDB entry should be stored in the defined CDDBLOCALDIR. The
278possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry which has been received from the
279net (overwriting any possible local CDDB entry); "new" for a CDDB entry which
280was received from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
281CDDB entry found in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory; "modified" for a
282CDDB entry found in the local repository but which has been modified by the
283user; and "always" which forces the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of
284the CDDBLOCALDIR no matter where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
285This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root of the local
286repository (if any). STILL NOT WORKING!!
287.TP
288.B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
289Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
290.TP
291.B CDDBUSELOCAL
292Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overridden using the
293"\-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
294the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
295.TP
296.B SHOWCDDBFIELDS
297Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
298Defaults to "year,genre".
299.TP
300.B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
301Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
302are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
303This affects the default location of the binary,
304the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
305are given.
306.TP
307.B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
308Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
309\'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
310Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
311.TP
312.B FLACENCODERSYNTAX
313Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
314\'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
315.TP
316.B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
317Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
318\'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
319.TP
320.B MPPENCODERSYNTAX
321Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
322point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
323.TP
324.B AACENCODERSYNTAX
325Specifies the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. At this point we
326only support \'faac\', so \'default\' points to it.
327.TP
328.B NORMALIZERSYNTAX
329Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\'
330and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
331ATM.
332.TP
333.B CDROMREADERSYNTAX
334Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\',
335\'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of
336valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is used to "rip" CD
337tracks from a single-track flac file.
338.TP
339.B CUEREADERSYNTAX
340Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now
341we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used.
342.TP
343.B KEEPWAVS
344It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
345set it to "y". You can use the "\-k" switch in the command line. The default
346behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
347files even you have requested the "clean" action.
348.TP
349.B PADTRACKS
350If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
351holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
352.TP
353.B INTERACTIVE
354Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
355.TP
356.B NICE VALUES
357Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
358processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
359with \fBdistmp3\fR (DISTMP3NICE).
360.TP
361.B PATHNAMES
362The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
363respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
364VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, AACEND, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC,
365CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3,
366VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC,
367CUE2DISCID (see option "\-X"), DIFF and HTTPGET.
368.TP
369.B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
370If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs \fBabcde\fR uses,
371set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
372BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
373FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, MP3GAINOPTS,
374CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
375NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
376DIFFOPTS, FLACGAINOPTS, VORBISGAINOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
377.TP
378.B CDSPEEDVALUE
379Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
380the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
381(1x).
382.TP
383.B ACTIONS
384The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
385.TP
386.B CDROM
387If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
388extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special
389\'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file.
390.TP
391.B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
392Defined as "d" when using \fBcdparanoia\fR with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
393\fBcdparanoia\fR with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
394.TP
395.B OUTPUTDIR
396Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
397.TP
398.B WAVOUTPUTDIR
399Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
400to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
401over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
402.TP
403.B OUTPUTTYPE
404Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
405encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
406(Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
407Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)), "m4a" (for M4A (AAC)) or
408"wav" (Microsoft Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both
409Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. For example
410.br
411OUTPUTTYPE=vorbis,flac
412.br
413For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, \fBabcde\fR expands a different process for encoding,
414tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
415different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
416be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a' and/or 'wav', depending on the
417OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
418.br
419OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
420.TP
421.B OUTPUTFORMAT
422Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+
423(Musepack) or M4A filenames. Variables are included using standard shell
424syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE,
425TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
426Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is automatically
427zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower,
428you can force with '\-p' in the command line.
429.TP
430.B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
431Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
432.TP
433.B ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
434Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for single-track rips (see option "\-1"). The default is '${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
435.TP
436.B VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
437Just like ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
438.TP
439.B MAXPROCS
440Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
441on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
442efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
443mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
444.TP
445.B LOWDISK
446If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
447reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
448requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
449entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
450quickly as it can read.
451
452Note that this option may also help when reading
453a CD with errors. This is because on a scratchy disk reading is quite timing
454sensitive and this option reduces the background load on the system which
455allows the ripping program more precise control.
456.TP
457.B BATCHNORM
458If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
459volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
460when using the \'lame\' encoder.
461.TP
462.B NOGAP
463Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no
464silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable
465gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is
466required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing
467variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
468.TP
469.B PLAYLISTFORMAT
470Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
471OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
472\'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
473Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
474.TP
475.B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
476Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
477playlists, etc.
478.TP
479.B DOSPLAYLIST
480If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
481hardware-based players.
482.TP
483.B COMMENT
484Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
485finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
486syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
487.TP
488.B REMOTEHOSTS
489Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
490\fBdistmp3\fR. Equivalent to \-r.
491.TP
492.B mungefilename
493mungefilename() is an \fBabcde\fR shell function that can be overridden via
494\fIabcde.conf\fR. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
495stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
496question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
497translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
498.br
499If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
500slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
501the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
502newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
503.TP
504.B mungegenre
505mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
506a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
507to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
508.TP
509.B pre_read
510pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
511for the first time, during \fBabcde\fR execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
512tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
513preparation actions. The default function is empty.
514.TP
515.B post_read
516post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
517(and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
518from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
519The default function is empty.
520.TP
521.B EJECTCD
522If set to "y", \fBabcde\fR will call \fBeject\fR(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
523after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac
524file.
525.TP
526.B EXTRAVERBOSE
527If set to "1", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
528are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
529network/CDDB server is slow. Set to "2" or more for even more verbose
530output.
531.SH EXAMPLES
532Possible ways one can call \fBabcde\fR:
533.TP
534.B abcde
535Will work in most systems
536.TP
537.B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
538If the CDROM you are reading from is not the standard \fI/dev/cdrom\fR (in GNU/Linux systems)
539.TP
540.B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
541Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
542.TP
543.B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
544Will pass "\-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
545config file
546.TP
547.B abcde \-W 1
548For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
549101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
550and so on.
551.TP
552.B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
553Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embedded cuesheet.
554.SH BACKEND TOOLS
555\fBabcde\fR requires the following backend tools to work:
556.TP
557.B *
558An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) or M4A encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc, faac)
559.TP
560.B *
561An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, icedax, cdda2wav, dagrab)
562.TP
563.B *
564cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
565.TP
566.B *
567An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X,
568among others). Alternatively, abcde-musicbrainz-tool (which depends on
569Perl and some Musicbrainz libraries) can be used to retrieve CDDB
570information about the CD.
571.TP
572.B *
573(for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
574.TP
575.B *
576(optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
577.TP
578.B *
579(optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
580.TP
581.B *
582(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain, replaygain),
583.TP
584.B *
585(optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
586.SH "SEE ALSO"
587.BR cdparanoia (1),
588.BR icedax (1),
589.BR cdda2wav (1),
590.BR dagrab (1),
591.BR normalize-audio (1),
592.BR oggenc (1),
593.BR vorbize (1),
594.BR flac (1),
595.BR toolame (1),
596.BR speexenc (1),
597.BR mppenc (1),
598.BR faac (1),
599.BR id3 (1),
600.BR id3v2 (1),
601.BR wget (1),
602.BR fetch (1),
603.BR cd-discid (1),
604.BR distmp3 (1),
605.BR distmp3host (1),
606.BR curl (1),
607.BR mkcue (1),
608.BR vorbisgain (1),
609.BR mp3gain (1)
610.SH AUTHORS
611Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
612Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
613Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>,
614Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> and contributions from many others.