3 * New release! Let's see if abcde 2.2 gets into Sarge.
4 * Added support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoding. Although I am trying to
5 get 2.2 for Debian Sarge release, mpc seems safe enough to introduce. See
6 corecodec.org for code.
7 * Some POSIX shell corrections (making the code more portable). Thanks to
8 Guillem Jover for pointing the problem out.
9 * CDYEAR is also passed to do_move(), so one can use it for sorting the
11 * Small MacOS X fix, allowing directories with "()" to work. Thanks to Evan
13 - On the MacOS X, I still do not know if abcde works correctly. If does
14 not, please, drop a note. Or else.
15 * DOSPLAYLIST also changes "/" with "\".
16 * DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
17 the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
18 work (at least there is no support for them in abcde)
19 (Closes: #112692, #117412).
20 * New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
21 template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
22 * New options for when the PLAYLIST already exists: erase, append or keep.
23 * Bug fixes along the code:
24 - abcde.1 corrections and additions
25 - abcde corrections and code reorganization. abcde now exits earlier if
26 some of the options are incompatible. Also the actions are set as
27 variables earlier, so we use less calls to external tools.
28 - abcde.conf additions
29 * The GENRE is munged now in its own mungegenre function, so that no more
30 upper-to-lowercase is done (forced) except if the default is used.
31 * Examples added to the tarball and /usr/share/doc/abcde/examples with two
32 scripts to make abcde kind-of-a ripper daemon.
33 * Changed to experimental to have an stable 2.1.x version in Sarge.
34 * Add CDDB information to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files (Closes: #265358).
35 * Added INTERACTIVE option. Set it to "n" and there you go, without user
37 * Changes normalize to normalize-audio (Closes: #267053)
38 * Copes with wav files being erased by the ripping tool.
39 * Small patch to support ()'s in the path under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones
40 for noticing and sending the patch.
41 * Added -w for COMMENT seed. Used to give a comment to a given CD.
42 * Option "-t <number>" added to modify the numbering from a starting point
43 (Closes: #95828). Geez! That is low bug number...
44 * Added -T to modify also the tag entries on the songs. Currently available
45 for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
46 * Removes trailing spaces (Closes: #280382).
47 * TRACKNAME now combines multi-lines from long CDDB entries.
49 - s/dh_installmanpages/dh_installman/
51 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:11:22 +0200
55 * Changed normalize with normalize-audio (Closes: #267053).
57 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:16:46 +0000
61 * The "Let's have a good abcde in Sarge" release.
62 * The mungefile() function changes * with + by default to avoid creating
63 directories with the start expanded to the files found in the current
64 directory. abcde2.2 will most likelly contain a better workaround.
65 * Correct default OUTPUTFORMAT in man page (Closes: #250649)
67 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:46 +0300
71 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
74 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
78 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
79 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
81 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
85 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
88 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
92 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
93 spinning at high speed.
94 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
95 tray (Closes: #137548).
96 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
97 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
98 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
100 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
101 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
102 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
104 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
105 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
106 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
107 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
108 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
109 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
111 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
115 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
117 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
119 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
121 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
122 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
123 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
124 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
125 and wondering is somethins is happening).
126 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
128 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
132 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
134 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
138 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
139 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
140 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
141 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
142 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
144 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
148 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
149 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
150 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
151 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
152 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
153 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
154 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
156 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
157 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
158 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
159 with the reports I have received.
161 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
165 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
166 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
167 we will not try to be very smart.
168 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
170 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
172 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
173 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
174 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
175 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
176 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
178 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
182 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
183 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
184 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
185 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
187 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
188 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
189 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
190 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
191 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
192 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
193 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
194 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
195 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
197 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
198 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
199 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
200 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
201 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
203 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
204 file is actually there.
206 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
210 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
211 * One head was missing a "-n"
212 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
213 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
215 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
219 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
220 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
222 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
224 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
225 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
228 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
232 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
233 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
234 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
235 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
237 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
238 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
240 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
244 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
245 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
246 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
247 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
248 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
249 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
250 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
251 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
253 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
255 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
259 * Small fixes and patches.
260 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
261 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
262 + small bug with batch encoding
263 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
264 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
265 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
267 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
268 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
269 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
270 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
271 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
272 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
273 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
275 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
280 + COMMENT should work now.
281 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
283 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
284 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
286 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
290 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
291 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
292 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
293 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
295 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
297 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
298 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
300 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
301 missing): Closes: #191475.
303 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
307 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
308 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
309 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
310 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
311 can always split the files once they are created.
312 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
313 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
314 of files (Closes: #111627).
315 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
316 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
317 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
318 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
319 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
320 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
322 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
328 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
332 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
333 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
335 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
336 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
337 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
339 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
343 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
344 * Few more doc update bits.
345 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
346 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
348 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
349 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
351 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
354 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
355 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
356 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
357 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
358 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
359 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
360 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
362 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
363 * NetBSD patches applied:
364 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
365 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
366 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
367 + multiple output and error checking
368 + multiple lists support
369 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the begining.
372 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
375 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
376 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
377 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
378 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
379 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
380 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
381 Norris, closes: #126327
382 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
383 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
384 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
385 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
387 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
390 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
391 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
393 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
397 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
398 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
399 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
400 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
401 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
402 closes: #111478, #111500
403 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
405 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
407 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
408 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
409 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
410 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
411 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
413 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
414 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
416 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
418 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
422 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
424 * Minor documentation updates
426 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
430 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
431 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
432 containing spaces, closes: #89682
433 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
434 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
435 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
436 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
437 status checking situations, closes: #93395
438 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
439 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
441 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
443 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
444 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
445 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
446 with their exit codes before aborting.
447 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
449 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
450 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
452 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
456 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
457 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
458 Beyerlein for noticing this
460 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
464 * The Groundshaking Release
465 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
466 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
467 discs named in a different format
468 * Accomodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
469 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
470 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
471 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
472 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
474 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
475 longer have the CD handy
476 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
477 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
478 * More documentation updates
480 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
484 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
486 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
487 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
488 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
489 * cddb-tool template output fixes
490 * Yet more documentation updates
491 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
492 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
494 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
495 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
496 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
498 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
502 * The Squishy Release
503 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
504 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
505 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
506 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
508 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
512 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
513 * Some documentation updates
514 * mungefilename quoting fix
515 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
517 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
521 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
522 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
523 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
524 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
525 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
526 * OUTPUTDIR works again
528 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
533 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
534 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
535 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
537 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
541 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
542 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
543 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
544 for non-interactivity.
545 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
546 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
547 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
548 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
549 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
550 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
552 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
553 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
554 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
555 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
556 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
558 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
562 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
563 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
564 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
565 * Resuming operation works better now
566 * Patched up offline usage again
567 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
568 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
570 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
573 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
578 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
579 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
580 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
581 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
582 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
583 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
584 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
586 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
590 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
591 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
592 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
593 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
594 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
596 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
600 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
601 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
603 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
605 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
608 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
612 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
613 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
614 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
616 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
620 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
621 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
622 * README file URL fixes/updates
624 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
628 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
630 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
634 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
635 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
636 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
637 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
638 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
640 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
644 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
645 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
646 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
647 local caching name servers
648 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
650 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
654 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
655 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
656 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
658 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
662 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
663 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
664 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
665 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
667 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
671 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
672 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
673 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
674 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
675 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
676 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
677 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
678 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
680 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
681 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
684 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
688 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
689 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
690 relative paths for playlist files
691 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
692 playlist data with things like URL's
693 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
694 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
695 stderr as it should).
697 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
701 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
703 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
707 * Removed bashisms (again :)
709 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
713 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
716 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
720 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
721 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
722 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
723 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
724 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
726 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
727 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
729 The program name is now 'abcde'.
731 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
735 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
736 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
737 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
739 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
743 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
744 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
745 * Added cddb-tool manpage
747 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
751 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
753 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
757 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
758 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
759 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
760 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
761 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
762 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
765 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
769 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
770 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
772 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
776 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
777 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
779 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
783 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
784 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
785 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
786 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
787 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
788 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
789 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accomodates the recent
790 cdparanoia package namechange.
791 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
792 Norris for tracking this down.
794 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
798 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
799 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
801 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
802 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
803 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
804 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
806 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
807 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
808 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
810 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
812 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
816 * Fixes wget calling method
817 * -l/LOWDISK documented
818 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
819 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
821 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
825 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
828 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
832 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
833 parallelized session.
834 * MAXPROCS added to config file
835 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
836 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
838 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
842 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
843 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
844 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
846 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
848 * Output fix for TOC printing
849 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
851 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
855 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
857 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
861 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
862 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
864 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
868 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
870 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
871 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
872 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
874 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
878 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
879 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
880 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
882 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
886 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
887 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
888 (I wish mutt did this :)
889 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
890 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
891 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
892 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
894 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
898 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
899 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
900 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
901 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
902 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
903 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
905 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
911 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999