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 \-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
 101 .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
 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
 106 options must be escaped with double-quotes.
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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".
 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
 155 in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
 156 This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 157 variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
 158 its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
 159 .SH CONFIGURATION
 160 abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
 161 $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
 162 .TP
 163 The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing
 164 the appropiate flags at runtime.
 165 .TP
 166 The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
 167 .TP
 168 .B VARIABLE=value
 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
 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
 200 .B SHOWCDDBFIELDS
 201 Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
 202 Defaults to "year,genre".
 203 .TP
 204 .B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
 205 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
 206 are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
 207 This affects the default location of the binary,
 208 the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
 209 are given.
 210 .TP
 211 .B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
 212 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
 213 \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
 214 Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
 215 .TP
 216 .B FLACENCODERSYNTAX
 217 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
 218 \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
 219 .TP
 220 .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
 221 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
 222 \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
 223 .TP
 224 .B MPPENCODERSYNTAX
 225 Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
 226 point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
 227 .TP
 228 .B NORMALIZERSYNTAX
 229 Specifies the style of normalizer to use.  Valid options are \'default\'
 230 and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
 231 ATM.
 232 .TP
 233 .B CDROMREADERSYNTAX
 234 Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\'
 235 and \'debug\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of valid
 236 tracks and DATA tracks. Right now, only cdparanoia is supported.
 237 .TP
 238 .B KEEPWAVS
 239 It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
 240 set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
 241 behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is the keep the temporary directory and the wav
 242 files even you have requested the "clean" action.
 243 .TP
 244 .B PADTRACKS
 245 If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
 246 holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
 247 .TP
 248 .B INTERACTIVE
 249 Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
 250 .TP
 251 .B NICE VALUES
 252 Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
 253 processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
 254 with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
 255 .TP
 256 .B PATHNAMES
 257 The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
 258 respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, VORBIZE,
 259 OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS,
 260 CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED,
 261 VORBISGAIN, MKCUE and HTTPGET.
 262 .TP
 263 .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
 264 If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde
 265 uses, set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
 266 BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
 267 FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
 268 CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
 269 CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
 270 .TP
 271 .B CDSPEEDVALUE
 272 Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
 273 the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
 274 (1x).
 275 .TP
 276 .B ACTIONS
 277 The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
 278 .TP
 279 .B CDROM
 280 If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
 281 extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail.
 282 .TP
 283 .B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
 284 Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
 285 cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
 286 .TP
 287 .B OUTPUTDIR
 288 Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
 289 .TP
 290 .B WAVOUTPUTDIR
 291 Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
 292 to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
 293 over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
 294 .TP
 295 .B OUTPUTTYPE
 296 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
 297 encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
 298 (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
 299 Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex) and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like
 300 "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
 301 .br
 302 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
 303 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
 304 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
 305 be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
 306 For example
 307 .br
 308 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
 309 .TP
 310 .B OUTPUTFORMAT
 311 Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+
 312 (Musepack) filenames.
 313 Variables are included
 314 using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE,
 315 TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is
 316 \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
 317 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is
 318 automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than
 319 9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line.
 320 .TP
 321 .B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 322 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
 323 OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
 324 .TP
 325 .B MAXPROCS
 326 Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
 327 on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
 328 efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
 329 mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
 330 .TP
 331 .B LOWDISK
 332 If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
 333 reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
 334 requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
 335 entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
 336 quickly as it can read.
 337 .TP
 338 .B BATCH
 339 If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
 340 volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
 341 when using the \'lame\' encoder.
 342 .TP
 343 .B PLAYLISTFORMAT
 344 Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
 345 OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
 346 \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
 347 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
 348 .TP
 349 .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
 350 Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
 351 playlists, etc.
 352 .TP
 353 .B DOSPLAYLIST
 354 If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
 355 hardware-based players.
 356 .TP
 357 .B COMMENT
 358 Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
 359 finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
 360 syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
 361 .TP
 362 .B REMOTEHOSTS
 363 Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
 364 distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
 365 .TP
 366 .B mungefilename
 367 mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
 368 abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
 369 stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
 370 question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
 371 translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
 372 .br
 373 If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
 374 slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
 375 the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
 376 newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
 377 .TP
 378 .B mungegenre
 379 mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
 380 a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
 381 to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
 382 .TP
 383 .B pre_read
 384 pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
 385 for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
 386 tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
 387 preparation actions. The default function is empty.
 388 .TP
 389 .B post_read
 390 post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
 391 (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
 392 from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
 393 The default function is empty.
 394 .TP
 395 .B EJECTCD
 396 If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
 397 after all tracks have been read.
 398 .TP
 399 .B EXTRAVERBOSE
 400 If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
 401 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
 402 network/CDDB server is slow.
 403 .SH EXAMPLES
 404 Possible ways one can call abcdeÑ
 405 .TP
 406 .B abcde
 407 Will work in most systems
 408 .TP
 409 .B abcde -d /dev/cdrom2
 410 If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
 411 .TP
 412 .B abcde -o vorbis,flac
 413 Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
 414 .TP
 415 .B abcde -o vorbis:"-b 192"
 416 Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
 417 config file
 418 .TP
 419 .B abcde -W 1
 420 For double CDs settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
 421 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks
 422 .SH BACKEND TOOLS
 423 abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
 424 .TP
 425 .B *
 426 An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc)
 427 .TP
 428 .B *
 429 An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
 430 .TP
 431 .B *
 432 cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
 433 .TP
 434 .B *
 435 An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others).
 436 .TP
 437 .B *
 438 (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
 439 .TP
 440 .B *
 441 (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
 442 .TP
 443 .B *
 444 (optional) normalize, a WAV file volume normalizer.
 445 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 446 .BR cdparanoia (1),
 447 .BR cdda2wav (1),
 448 .BR dagrab (1),
 449 .BR normalize-audio (1),
 450 .BR oggenc (1),
 451 .BR vorbize (1),
 452 .BR flac (1),
 453 .BR speexenc(1),
 454 .BR mppenc(1),
 455 .BR id3 (1),
 456 .BR wget (1),
 457 .BR fetch (1),
 458 .BR cd-discid (1),
 459 .BR distmp3 (1),
 460 .BR distmp3host (1),
 461 .BR curl(1)
 462 .SH AUTHORS
 463 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
 464 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.