abcde.1

   1 .TH ABCDE 1
   2 .SH NAME
   3 abcde \- 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
   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
  13 Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack). With one command, it will:
  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 *
  22 Compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format
  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
  69 .B \-h
  70 Get help information.
  71 .TP
  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
  86 .B \-n
  87 Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
  88 provide song names, artist(s), ...
  89 .TP
  90 .B \-N
  91 Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
  92 .TP
  93 .B \-m
  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
  97 .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
  98 Select output type. Can be "ogg", "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc". Specify a
  99 comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types. See
 100 the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the encoder for
 101 a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a colon. The
 102 options must be escaped with double-quotes.
 103 .TP
 104 .B \-p
 105 Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
 106 .TP
 107 .B \-r [hosts...]
 108 Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
 109 the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
 110 .TP
 111 .B \-R
 112 Add replaygain information to the id3 or tag information for play
 113 normalization. Only works with MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis.
 114 .TP
 115 .B \-s [number]
 116 [DEPRECATED: use -t, see below]
 117 .TP
 118 .B \-S [speed]
 119 Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
 120 and both the program and device must support the capability.
 121 .TP
 122 .B \-t [number]
 123 Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the
 124 filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same.
 125 .TP
 126 .B \-T [number]
 127 Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
 128 the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
 129 .TP
 130 .B \-v
 131 Show the version and exit
 132 .TP
 133 .B \-V
 134 Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
 135 sensation nothins is happening.
 136 .TP
 137 .B \-x
 138 Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
 139 variable.
 140 .TP
 141 .B \-w [comment]
 142 Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
 143 .TP
 144 .B \-W [number]
 145 Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
 146 to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
 147 .TP
 148 .B [tracks]
 149 A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde
 150 will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
 151 "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
 152 .SH OUTPUT
 153 Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
 154 in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
 155 This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 156 variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
 157 its compression format, '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
 158 .SH CONFIGURATION
 159 abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
 160 $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
 161 .TP
 162 The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
 163 .TP
 164 .B VARIABLE=value
 165 Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other
 166 variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration
 167 file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
 168 expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
 169 .TP
 170 All sh escaping/quoting rules apply.
 171 .TP
 172 Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
 173 .TP
 174 .B CDDBURL
 175 Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
 176 .TP
 177 .B HELLOINFO
 178 Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
 179 protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
 180 connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
 181 .TP
 182 .B CDDBLOCALDIR
 183 Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
 184 be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
 185 CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb
 186 and we can make use of those entries.
 187 .TP
 188 .B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
 189 Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
 190 .TP
 191 .B CDDBUSELOCAL
 192 Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
 193 "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
 194 the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
 195 .TP
 196 .B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
 197 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
 198 are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
 199 This affects the default location of the binary,
 200 the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
 201 are given.
 202 .TP
 203 .B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
 204 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
 205 \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
 206 Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
 207 .TP
 208 .B FLACENCODERSYNTAX
 209 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
 210 \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
 211 .TP
 212 .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
 213 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
 214 \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
 215 .TP
 216 .B MPPENCODERSYNTAX
 217 Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
 218 point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
 219 .TP
 220 .B NORMALIZERSYNTAX
 221 Specifies the style of normalizer to use.  Valid options are \'default\'
 222 and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
 223 ATM.
 224 .TP
 225 .B CDROMREADERSYNTAX
 226 Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\'
 227 and \'debug\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of valid
 228 tracks and DATA tracks. Right now, only cdparanoia is supported.
 229 .TP
 230 .B KEEPWAVS
 231 It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
 232 set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
 233 behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is the keep the temporary directory and the wav
 234 files even you have requested the "clean" action.
 235 .TP
 236 .B PADTRACKS
 237 If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
 238 holder. Usefull when encoding tracks 1-9.
 239 .TP
 240 .B INTERACTIVE
 241 Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
 242 .TP
 243 .B NICE VALUES
 244 Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
 245 processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
 246 with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
 247 .TP
 248 .B PATHNAMES
 249 The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
 250 respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, VORBIZE,
 251 OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS,
 252 CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED
 253 and HTTPGET.
 254 .TP
 255 .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
 256 If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde
 257 uses, set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
 258 BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
 259 FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
 260 CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
 261 CDSPEEDOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
 262 .TP
 263 .B CDSPEEDVALUE
 264 Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
 265 the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
 266 (1x).
 267 .TP
 268 .B ACTIONS
 269 The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
 270 .TP
 271 .B CDROM
 272 If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
 273 extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail.
 274 .TP
 275 .B OUTPUTDIR
 276 Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
 277 .TP
 278 .B WAVOUTPUTDIR
 279 Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
 280 to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
 281 over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
 282 .TP
 283 .B OUTPUTTYPE
 284 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
 285 encoder. Defaults to "ogg". Valid settings are "ogg" (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3"
 286 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex)
 287 and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like "ogg,mp3" encode the tracks in
 288 both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
 289 .br
 290 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
 291 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
 292 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
 293 be 'ogg', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
 294 For example
 295 .br
 296 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
 297 .TP
 298 .B OUTPUTFORMAT
 299 Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+
 300 (Musepack) filenames.
 301 Variables are included
 302 using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE,
 303 TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is
 304 \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
 305 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is
 306 automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than
 307 9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line.
 308 .TP
 309 .B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 310 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
 311 OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
 312 .TP
 313 .B MAXPROCS
 314 Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
 315 on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
 316 efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
 317 mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
 318 .TP
 319 .B LOWDISK
 320 If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
 321 reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
 322 requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
 323 entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
 324 quickly as it can read.
 325 .TP
 326 .B BATCH
 327 If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
 328 volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
 329 when using the \'lame\' encoder.
 330 .TP
 331 .B PLAYLISTFORMAT
 332 Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
 333 OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
 334 \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
 335 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
 336 .TP
 337 .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
 338 Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
 339 playlists, etc.
 340 .TP
 341 .B DOSPLAYLIST
 342 If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
 343 hardware-based players.
 344 .TP
 345 .B COMMENT
 346 Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
 347 finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
 348 syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
 349 .TP
 350 .B REMOTEHOSTS
 351 Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
 352 distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
 353 .TP
 354 .B mungefilename
 355 mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
 356 abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
 357 stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
 358 question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
 359 translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
 360 .br
 361 If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
 362 slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
 363 the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
 364 newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
 365 .TP
 366 .B mungegenre
 367 mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
 368 a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
 369 to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
 370 .TP
 371 .B pre_read
 372 pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
 373 for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
 374 tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
 375 preparation actions. The default function is empty.
 376 .TP
 377 .B EJECTCD
 378 If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
 379 after all tracks have been read.
 380 .TP
 381 .B EXTRAVERBOSE
 382 If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
 383 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Usefull for initial debug and if your
 384 network/CDDB server is slow.
 385 .SH EXAMPLES
 386 Possible ways one can call abcdeÑ
 387 .TP
 388 .B abcde
 389 Will work in most systems
 390 .TP
 391 .B abcde -d /dev/cdrom2
 392 If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
 393 .TP
 394 .B abcde -o ogg,flac
 395 Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
 396 .TP
 397 .B abcde -o ogg:"-b 192"
 398 Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
 399 config file
 400 .TP
 401 .B abcde -W 1
 402 For double CDs settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
 403 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks
 404 .SH BACKEND TOOLS
 405 abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
 406 .TP
 407 .B *
 408 An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc)
 409 .TP
 410 .B *
 411 An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
 412 .TP
 413 .B *
 414 cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
 415 .TP
 416 .B *
 417 An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others).
 418 .TP
 419 .B *
 420 (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
 421 .TP
 422 .B *
 423 (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
 424 .TP
 425 .B *
 426 (optional) normalize, a WAV file volume normalizer.
 427 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 428 .BR cdparanoia (1),
 429 .BR cdda2wav (1),
 430 .BR dagrab (1),
 431 .BR normalize-audio (1),
 432 .BR oggenc (1),
 433 .BR vorbize (1),
 434 .BR flac (1),
 435 .BR speexenc(1),
 436 .BR mppenc(1),
 437 .BR id3 (1),
 438 .BR wget (1),
 439 .BR fetch (1),
 440 .BR cd-discid (1),
 441 .BR distmp3 (1),
 442 .BR distmp3host (1),
 443 .BR curl(1)
 444 .SH AUTHORS
 445 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
 446 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.