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.
47 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:11:22 +0200
51 * Changed normalize with normalize-audio (Closes: #267053).
53 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:16:46 +0000
57 * The "Let's have a good abcde in Sarge" release.
58 * The mungefile() function changes * with + by default to avoid creating
59 directories with the start expanded to the files found in the current
60 directory. abcde2.2 will most likelly contain a better workaround.
61 * Correct default OUTPUTFORMAT in man page (Closes: #250649)
63 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:46 +0300
67 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
70 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
74 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
75 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
77 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
81 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
84 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
88 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
89 spinning at high speed.
90 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
91 tray (Closes: #137548).
92 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
93 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
94 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
96 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
97 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
98 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
100 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
101 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
102 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
103 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
104 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
105 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
107 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
111 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
113 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
115 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
117 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
118 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
119 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
120 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
121 and wondering is somethins is happening).
122 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
124 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
128 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
130 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
134 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
135 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
136 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
137 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
138 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
140 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
144 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
145 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
146 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
147 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
148 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
149 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
150 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
152 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
153 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
154 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
155 with the reports I have received.
157 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
161 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
162 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
163 we will not try to be very smart.
164 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
166 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
168 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
169 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
170 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
171 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
172 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
174 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
178 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
179 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
180 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
181 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
183 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
184 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
185 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
186 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
187 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
188 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
189 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
190 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
191 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
193 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
194 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
195 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
196 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
197 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
199 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
200 file is actually there.
202 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
206 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
207 * One head was missing a "-n"
208 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
209 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
211 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
215 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
216 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
218 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
220 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
221 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
224 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
228 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
229 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
230 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
231 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
233 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
234 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
236 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
240 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
241 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
242 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
243 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
244 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
245 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
246 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
247 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
249 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
251 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
255 * Small fixes and patches.
256 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
257 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
258 + small bug with batch encoding
259 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
260 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
261 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
263 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
264 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
265 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
266 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
267 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
268 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
269 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
271 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
276 + COMMENT should work now.
277 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
279 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
280 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
282 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
286 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
287 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
288 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
289 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
291 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
293 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
294 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
296 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
297 missing): Closes: #191475.
299 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
303 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
304 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
305 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
306 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
307 can always split the files once they are created.
308 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
309 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
310 of files (Closes: #111627).
311 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
312 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
313 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
314 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
315 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
316 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
318 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
324 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
328 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
329 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
331 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
332 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
333 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
335 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
339 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
340 * Few more doc update bits.
341 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
342 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
344 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
345 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
347 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
350 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
351 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
352 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
353 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
354 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
355 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
356 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
358 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
359 * NetBSD patches applied:
360 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
361 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
362 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
363 + multiple output and error checking
364 + multiple lists support
365 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the begining.
368 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
371 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
372 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
373 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
374 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
375 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
376 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
377 Norris, closes: #126327
378 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
379 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
380 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
381 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
383 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
386 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
387 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
389 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
393 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
394 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
395 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
396 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
397 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
398 closes: #111478, #111500
399 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
401 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
403 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
404 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
405 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
406 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
407 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
409 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
410 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
412 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
414 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
418 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
420 * Minor documentation updates
422 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
426 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
427 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
428 containing spaces, closes: #89682
429 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
430 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
431 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
432 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
433 status checking situations, closes: #93395
434 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
435 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
437 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
439 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
440 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
441 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
442 with their exit codes before aborting.
443 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
445 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
446 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
448 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
452 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
453 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
454 Beyerlein for noticing this
456 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
460 * The Groundshaking Release
461 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
462 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
463 discs named in a different format
464 * Accomodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
465 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
466 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
467 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
468 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
470 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
471 longer have the CD handy
472 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
473 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
474 * More documentation updates
476 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
480 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
482 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
483 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
484 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
485 * cddb-tool template output fixes
486 * Yet more documentation updates
487 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
488 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
490 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
491 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
492 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
494 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
498 * The Squishy Release
499 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
500 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
501 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
502 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
504 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
508 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
509 * Some documentation updates
510 * mungefilename quoting fix
511 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
513 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
517 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
518 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
519 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
520 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
521 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
522 * OUTPUTDIR works again
524 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
529 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
530 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
531 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
533 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
537 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
538 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
539 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
540 for non-interactivity.
541 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
542 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
543 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
544 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
545 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
546 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
548 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
549 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
550 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
551 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
552 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
554 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
558 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
559 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
560 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
561 * Resuming operation works better now
562 * Patched up offline usage again
563 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
564 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
566 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
569 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
574 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
575 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
576 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
577 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
578 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
579 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
580 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
582 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
586 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
587 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
588 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
589 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
590 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
592 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
596 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
597 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
599 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
601 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
604 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
608 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
609 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
610 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
612 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
616 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
617 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
618 * README file URL fixes/updates
620 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
624 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
626 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
630 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
631 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
632 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
633 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
634 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
636 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
640 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
641 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
642 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
643 local caching name servers
644 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
646 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
650 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
651 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
652 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
654 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
658 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
659 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
660 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
661 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
663 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
667 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
668 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
669 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
670 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
671 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
672 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
673 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
674 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
676 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
677 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
680 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
684 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
685 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
686 relative paths for playlist files
687 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
688 playlist data with things like URL's
689 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
690 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
691 stderr as it should).
693 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
697 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
699 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
703 * Removed bashisms (again :)
705 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
709 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
712 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
716 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
717 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
718 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
719 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
720 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
722 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
723 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
725 The program name is now 'abcde'.
727 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
731 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
732 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
733 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
735 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
739 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
740 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
741 * Added cddb-tool manpage
743 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
747 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
749 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
753 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
754 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
755 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
756 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
757 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
758 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
761 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
765 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
766 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
768 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
772 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
773 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
775 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
779 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
780 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
781 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
782 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
783 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
784 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
785 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accomodates the recent
786 cdparanoia package namechange.
787 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
788 Norris for tracking this down.
790 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
794 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
795 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
797 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
798 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
799 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
800 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
802 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
803 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
804 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
806 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
808 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
812 * Fixes wget calling method
813 * -l/LOWDISK documented
814 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
815 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
817 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
821 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
824 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
828 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
829 parallelized session.
830 * MAXPROCS added to config file
831 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
832 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
834 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
838 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
839 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
840 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
842 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
844 * Output fix for TOC printing
845 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
847 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
851 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
853 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
857 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
858 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
860 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
864 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
866 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
867 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
868 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
870 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
874 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
875 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
876 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
878 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
882 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
883 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
884 (I wish mutt did this :)
885 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
886 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
887 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
888 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
890 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
894 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
895 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
896 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
897 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
898 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
899 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
901 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
907 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999