3 * DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
4 the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
5 work (at least there is no support for them in abcde) (Closes: #112692).
6 * New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
7 template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
9 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:03:36 +0000
13 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
16 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
20 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
21 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
23 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
27 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
30 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
34 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
35 spinning at high speed.
36 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
37 tray (Closes: #137548).
38 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
39 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
40 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
42 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
43 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
44 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
46 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
47 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
48 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
49 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
50 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
51 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
53 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
57 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
59 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
61 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
63 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
64 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
65 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
66 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
67 and wondering is somethins is happening).
68 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
70 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
74 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
76 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
80 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
81 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
82 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
83 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
84 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
86 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
90 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
91 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
92 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
93 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
94 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
95 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
96 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
98 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
99 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
100 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
101 with the reports I have received.
103 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
107 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
108 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
109 we will not try to be very smart.
110 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
112 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
114 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
115 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
116 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
117 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
118 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
120 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
124 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
125 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
126 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
127 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
129 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
130 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
131 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
132 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
133 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
134 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
135 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
136 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
137 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
139 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
140 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
141 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
142 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
143 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
145 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
146 file is actually there.
148 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
152 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
153 * One head was missing a "-n"
154 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
155 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
157 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
161 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
162 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
164 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
166 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
167 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
170 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
174 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
175 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
176 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
177 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
179 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
180 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
182 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
186 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
187 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
188 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
189 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
190 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
191 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
192 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
193 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
195 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
197 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
201 * Small fixes and patches.
202 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
203 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
204 + small bug with batch encoding
205 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
206 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
207 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
209 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
210 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
211 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
212 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
213 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
214 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
215 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
217 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
222 + COMMENT should work now.
223 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
225 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
226 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
228 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
232 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
233 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
234 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
235 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
237 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
239 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
240 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
242 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
243 missing): Closes: #191475.
245 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
249 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
250 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
251 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
252 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
253 can always split the files once they are created.
254 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
255 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
256 of files (Closes: #111627).
257 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
258 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
259 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
260 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
261 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
262 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
264 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
270 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
274 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
275 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
277 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
278 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
279 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
281 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
285 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
286 * Few more doc update bits.
287 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
288 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
290 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
291 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
293 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
296 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
297 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
298 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
299 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
300 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
301 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
302 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
304 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
305 * NetBSD patches applied:
306 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
307 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
308 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
309 + multiple output and error checking
310 + multiple lists support
311 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the begining.
314 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
317 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
318 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
319 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
320 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
321 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
322 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
323 Norris, closes: #126327
324 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
325 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
326 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
327 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
329 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
332 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
333 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
335 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
339 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
340 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
341 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
342 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
343 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
344 closes: #111478, #111500
345 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
347 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
349 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
350 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
351 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
352 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
353 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
355 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
356 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
358 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
360 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
364 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
366 * Minor documentation updates
368 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
372 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
373 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
374 containing spaces, closes: #89682
375 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
376 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
377 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
378 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
379 status checking situations, closes: #93395
380 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
381 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
383 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
385 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
386 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
387 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
388 with their exit codes before aborting.
389 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
391 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
392 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
394 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
398 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
399 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
400 Beyerlein for noticing this
402 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
406 * The Groundshaking Release
407 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
408 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
409 discs named in a different format
410 * Accomodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
411 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
412 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
413 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
414 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
416 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
417 longer have the CD handy
418 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
419 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
420 * More documentation updates
422 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
426 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
428 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
429 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
430 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
431 * cddb-tool template output fixes
432 * Yet more documentation updates
433 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
434 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
436 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
437 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
438 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
440 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
444 * The Squishy Release
445 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
446 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
447 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
448 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
450 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
454 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
455 * Some documentation updates
456 * mungefilename quoting fix
457 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
459 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
463 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
464 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
465 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
466 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
467 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
468 * OUTPUTDIR works again
470 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
475 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
476 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
477 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
479 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
483 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
484 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
485 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
486 for non-interactivity.
487 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
488 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
489 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
490 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
491 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
492 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
494 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
495 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
496 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
497 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
498 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
500 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
504 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
505 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
506 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
507 * Resuming operation works better now
508 * Patched up offline usage again
509 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
510 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
512 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
515 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
520 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
521 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
522 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
523 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
524 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
525 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
526 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
528 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
532 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
533 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
534 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
535 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
536 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
538 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
542 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
543 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
545 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
547 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
550 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
554 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
555 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
556 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
558 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
562 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
563 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
564 * README file URL fixes/updates
566 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
570 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
572 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
576 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
577 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
578 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
579 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
580 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
582 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
586 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
587 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
588 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
589 local caching name servers
590 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
592 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
596 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
597 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
598 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
600 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
604 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
605 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
606 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
607 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
609 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
613 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
614 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
615 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
616 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
617 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
618 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
619 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
620 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
622 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
623 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
626 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
630 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
631 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
632 relative paths for playlist files
633 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
634 playlist data with things like URL's
635 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
636 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
637 stderr as it should).
639 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
643 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
645 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
649 * Removed bashisms (again :)
651 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
655 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
658 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
662 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
663 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
664 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
665 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
666 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
668 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
669 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
671 The program name is now 'abcde'.
673 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
677 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
678 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
679 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
681 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
685 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
686 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
687 * Added cddb-tool manpage
689 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
693 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
695 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
699 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
700 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
701 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
702 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
703 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
704 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
707 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
711 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
712 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
714 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
718 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
719 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
721 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
725 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
726 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
727 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
728 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
729 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
730 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
731 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accomodates the recent
732 cdparanoia package namechange.
733 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
734 Norris for tracking this down.
736 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
740 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
741 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
743 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
744 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
745 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
746 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
748 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
749 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
750 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
752 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
754 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
758 * Fixes wget calling method
759 * -l/LOWDISK documented
760 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
761 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
763 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
767 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
770 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
774 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
775 parallelized session.
776 * MAXPROCS added to config file
777 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
778 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
780 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
784 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
785 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
786 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
788 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
790 * Output fix for TOC printing
791 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
793 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
797 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
799 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
803 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
804 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
806 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
810 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
812 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
813 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
814 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
816 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
820 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
821 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
822 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
824 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
828 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
829 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
830 (I wish mutt did this :)
831 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
832 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
833 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
834 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
836 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
840 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
841 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
842 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
843 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
844 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
845 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
847 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
853 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999