3 abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
8 Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then
9 tagging or commenting it, is very involved.
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:
16 Do a CDDB query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry
19 Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
22 Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
25 Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A format(s), all in one CD read
28 Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
31 Give an intelligible filename
34 Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
37 Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
44 Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
45 for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embeded cuesheet,
46 the file can be used as a source for creating other formats.
49 Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of:
50 cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize
51 and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies
52 cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move.
53 Playlist implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize,
54 replaygain and playlist.
57 Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable.
60 Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain
61 information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration variable.
64 Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
65 in this file override those in /etc/abcde.conf or $HOME/.abcde.conf.
68 Allows you to resume a session for
70 when you no longer have the CD available (abcde will automatically resume if
71 you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at
72 least the "read" action during the previous session.
74 .B \-d [devicename | filename]
75 CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a
76 single-track flac file with embeded cuesheet.
79 Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
83 Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable
84 other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
87 Force the removal of the temporary ABCDETEMPDIR directory, even when we have
88 not finished. For example, one can read and encode several formats, including
89 \'.ogg\', and later on execute a \'move\' action with only one of the given
90 formats. On a normal situation it would erase the rest of those encoded
91 formats. In this case, abcde will refuse to execute such command, except if \-f
95 Enable lame's \-\-nogap option. See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's
96 \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is required for mp3 players to
97 correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
100 Get help information.
103 Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides
104 the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using distmp3 to avoid
105 local encoding processes.
108 Keep the wav files after encoding.
111 Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable.
114 Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
117 Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
118 provide song names, artist(s), ...
121 Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
124 Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
125 endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
128 Create a CUE file with information about the CD. Together with the possibility
129 of creating a single file (see option "\-1"), one can recreate the original CD.
130 If the cuesheet is embeded in a flac single file it can be used as source for
131 encoding other formats.
133 .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
134 Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc",
135 "m4a" or "wav". Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all
136 specified types. See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass
137 options to the encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating
138 them with a colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
141 Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
144 Use Unix PIPES to read and encode in one step. It disables multiple encodings,
145 since the WAV audio file is never stored in the disc.
148 Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
149 the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
152 When CDDBLOCALDIR and CDDBUSELOCAL are defined, search recursively under the
153 defined directory for matches of the CDDB entry.
156 List, separated by comas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
157 Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
160 Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
161 and both the program and device must support the capability.
164 Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the
165 filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same.
168 Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
169 the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
172 Set CDDBPROTOCOL to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB
173 information, and we tag and add comments with a proper encoding. This flag will
174 be removed and -U will be added to set it to version 5 once version 6 becomes
178 Show the version and exit
181 Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
182 sensation nothins is happening.
185 Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
189 Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
192 Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
193 to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
196 DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second of each track
197 and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some
198 "hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL
199 ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
202 A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde
203 will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
204 "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
206 Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
207 in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
208 This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
209 variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
210 its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', '.aac' or '.wav'.
212 abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
213 $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
215 The configuration options stated on those files can be overriden by providing
216 the appropiate flags at runtime.
218 The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
221 Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other
222 variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration
223 file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
224 expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
226 All sh escaping/quoting rules apply.
228 Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
231 Specifies the method we want to use to retrieve the track information. Two
232 values are recognized: "cddb" and "musicbrainz". The "cddb" value needs the
233 CDDBURL and HELLOINFO variables described below. The "musicbrainz" value uses
234 Python to stablish a conversation with the server for information retrieval.
237 Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
240 Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
241 protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
242 connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
245 Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
246 be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
247 CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb
248 and we can make use of those entries.
250 .B CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
251 Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has to be searched recursively trying to find a
252 match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL
253 is selected, it will be copied to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if
254 CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified" or "new".
257 Defines when a CDDB entry should be stored in the defined CDDBLOCALDIR. The
258 possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry which has been received from the
259 net (overwriting any possible local CDDB entry); "new" for a CDDB entry which
260 was received from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
261 CDDB entry found in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory; "modified" for a
262 CDDB entry found in the local repository but which has been modified by the
263 user; and "always" which forces the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of
264 the CDDBLOCALDIR no matter where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
265 This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root of the local
269 Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
272 Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
273 "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
274 the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
277 Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
278 Defaults to "year,genre".
281 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
282 are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
283 This affects the default location of the binary,
284 the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
288 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
289 \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
290 Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
293 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
294 \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
296 .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
297 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
298 \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
301 Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
302 point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
305 Specifies the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. At this point we
306 only support \'faac\', so \'default\' points to it.
309 Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\'
310 and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
314 Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\',
315 \'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of
316 valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is used to "rip" CD
317 tracks from a single-track flac file.
320 Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now
321 we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used.
324 It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
325 set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
326 behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
327 files even you have requested the "clean" action.
330 If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
331 holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
334 Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
337 Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
338 processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
339 with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
342 The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
343 respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
344 VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, AACEND, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC,
345 CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3,
346 VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC,
349 .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
350 If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde uses,
351 set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
352 BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
353 FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS,
354 CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
355 NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
356 DIFFOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
359 Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
360 the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
364 The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
367 If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
368 extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special
369 \'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file.
371 .B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
372 Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
373 cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
376 Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
379 Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
380 to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
381 over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
384 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
385 encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
386 (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
387 Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)), "m4a" (for M4A (AAC)) or
388 "wav" (Microsoft Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both
389 Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
391 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
392 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
393 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
394 be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a' and/or 'wav', depending on the
395 OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
397 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
400 Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+
401 (Musepack) or M4A filenames. Variables are included using standard shell
402 syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE,
403 TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
404 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is automatically
405 zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower,
407 '-p' in the command line.
410 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
411 OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
414 Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
415 on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
416 efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
417 mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
420 If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
421 reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
422 requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
423 entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
424 quickly as it can read.
427 If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
428 volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
429 when using the \'lame\' encoder.
432 Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no
433 silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable
434 gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is
435 required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing
436 variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
439 Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
440 OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
441 \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
442 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
444 .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
445 Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
449 If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
450 hardware-based players.
453 Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
454 finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
455 syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
458 Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
459 distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
462 mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
463 abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
464 stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
465 question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
466 translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
468 If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
469 slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
470 the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
471 newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
474 mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
475 a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
476 to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
479 pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
480 for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
481 tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
482 preparation actions. The default function is empty.
485 post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
486 (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
487 from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
488 The default function is empty.
491 If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
492 after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac
496 If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
497 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
498 network/CDDB server is slow.
500 Possible ways one can call abcde
503 Will work in most systems
505 .B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
506 If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
508 .B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
509 Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
511 .B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
512 Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
516 For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
517 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
520 .B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
521 Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embeded cuesheet.
523 abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
526 An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) or M4A encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc, faac)
529 An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
532 cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
535 An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others). Alternatively, musicbrainz-get-tracks (which depends on Python) can be used to retrieve CDDB information about the CD.
538 (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
541 (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
544 (optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
547 (optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain, replaygain),
550 (optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
555 .BR normalize-audio (1),
575 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
576 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.
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