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 an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
  20 .TP
  21 .B *
  22 Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
  23 .TP
  24 .B *
  25 Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format(s), all in one CD read
  26 .TP
  27 .B *
  28 Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
  29 .TP
  30 .B *
  31 Give an intelligible filename
  32 .TP
  33 .B *
  34 Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
  35 .TP
  36 .B *
  37 Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
  38 .TP
  39 .B *
  40 Repeat until finished
  41 .SH OPTIONS
  42 .TP
  43 .B \-1
  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.
  47 .TP
  48 .B \-a [actions]
  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.
  55 .TP
  56 .B \-b
  57 Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable.
  58 .TP
  59 .B \-B
  60 Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain
  61 information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration variable.
  62 .TP
  63 .B \-c [filename]
  64 Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
  65 in this file override those in /etc/abcde.conf or $HOME/.abcde.conf.
  66 .TP
  67 .B \-C [discid]
  68 Allows you to resume a session for
  69 .I discid
  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.
  73 .TP
  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.
  77 .TP
  78 .B \-D
  79 Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
  80 2>logfile')
  81 .TP
  82 .B \-e
  83 Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable
  84 other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
  85 .TP
  86 .B \-g
  87 Enable lame's \-\-nogap option.  See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's
  88 \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag.  This tag is required for mp3 players to
  89 correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
  90 .TP
  91 .B \-h
  92 Get help information.
  93 .TP
  94 .B \-j [number]
  95 Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides
  96 the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using distmp3 to avoid
  97 local encoding processes.
  98 .TP
  99 .B \-k
 100 Keep the wav files after encoding.
 101 .TP
 102 .B \-l
 103 Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable.
 104 .TP
 105 .B \-L
 106 Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
 107 .TP
 108 .B \-n
 109 Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
 110 provide song names, artist(s), ...
 111 .TP
 112 .B \-N
 113 Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
 114 .TP
 115 .B \-m
 116 Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
 117 endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
 118 .TP
 119 .B \-M
 120 Create a CUE file with information about the CD. Together with the possibility
 121 of creating a single file (see option "\-1"), one can recreate the original CD.
 122 If the cuesheet is embeded in a flac single file it can be used as source for
 123 encoding other formats.
 124 .TP
 125 .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
 126 Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc" or
 127 "wav".  Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified
 128 types.  See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the
 129 encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a
 130 colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
 131 .TP
 132 .B \-p
 133 Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
 134 .TP
 135 .B \-r [hosts...]
 136 Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
 137 the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
 138 .TP
 139 .B \-R
 140 When CDDBLOCALDIR and CDDBUSELOCAL are defined, search recursively under the
 141 defined directory for matches of the CDDB entry.
 142 .TP
 143 .B \-s [fields...]
 144 List, separated by comas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
 145 Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
 146 .TP
 147 .B \-S [speed]
 148 Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
 149 and both the program and device must support the capability.
 150 .TP
 151 .B \-t [number]
 152 Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the
 153 filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same.
 154 .TP
 155 .B \-T [number]
 156 Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
 157 the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
 158 .TP
 159 .B \-u
 160 Set CDDBPROTOCOL to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB
 161 information, and we tag and add comments with a proper encoding. This flag will
 162 be removed and -U will be added to set it to version 5 once version 6 becomes
 163 the default.
 164 .TP
 165 .B \-v
 166 Show the version and exit
 167 .TP
 168 .B \-V
 169 Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
 170 sensation nothins is happening.
 171 .TP
 172 .B \-x
 173 Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
 174 variable.
 175 .TP
 176 .B \-w [comment]
 177 Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
 178 .TP
 179 .B \-W [number]
 180 Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
 181 to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
 182 .TP
 183 .B \-z
 184 DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second of each track
 185 and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some
 186 "hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL
 187 ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
 188 .TP
 189 .B [tracks]
 190 A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde
 191 will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
 192 "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
 193 .SH OUTPUT
 194 Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
 195 in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
 196 This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 197 variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
 198 its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', or '.wav'.
 199 .SH CONFIGURATION
 200 abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
 201 $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
 202 .TP
 203 The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing
 204 the appropiate flags at runtime.
 205 .TP
 206 The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
 207 .TP
 208 .B VARIABLE=value
 209 Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other
 210 variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration
 211 file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
 212 expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
 213 .TP
 214 All sh escaping/quoting rules apply.
 215 .TP
 216 Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
 217 .TP
 218 .B CDDBURL
 219 Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
 220 .TP
 221 .B HELLOINFO
 222 Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
 223 protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
 224 connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
 225 .TP
 226 .B CDDBLOCALDIR
 227 Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
 228 be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
 229 CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb
 230 and we can make use of those entries.
 231 .TP
 232 .B CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
 233 Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has to be searched recursively trying to find a
 234 match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL
 235 is selected, it will be copied to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if
 236 CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified" or "new".
 237 .TP
 238 .B CDDBLOCALPOLICY
 239 Defines when a CDDB entry should be stored in the defined CDDBLOCALDIR. The
 240 possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry which has been received from the
 241 net (overwriting any possible local CDDB entry); "new" for a CDDB entry which
 242 was received from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
 243 CDDB entry found in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory; "modified" for a
 244 CDDB entry found in the local repository but which has been modified by the
 245 user; and "always" which forces the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of
 246 the CDDBLOCALDIR no matter where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
 247 This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root of the local
 248 repository (if any).
 249 .TP
 250 .B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
 251 Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
 252 .TP
 253 .B CDDBUSELOCAL
 254 Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
 255 "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
 256 the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
 257 .TP
 258 .B SHOWCDDBFIELDS
 259 Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
 260 Defaults to "year,genre".
 261 .TP
 262 .B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
 263 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
 264 are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
 265 This affects the default location of the binary,
 266 the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
 267 are given.
 268 .TP
 269 .B MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
 270 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
 271 \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
 272 Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
 273 .TP
 274 .B FLACENCODERSYNTAX
 275 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
 276 \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
 277 .TP
 278 .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
 279 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
 280 \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
 281 .TP
 282 .B MPPENCODERSYNTAX
 283 Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
 284 point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
 285 .TP
 286 .B NORMALIZERSYNTAX
 287 Specifies the style of normalizer to use.  Valid options are \'default\'
 288 and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
 289 ATM.
 290 .TP
 291 .B CDROMREADERSYNTAX
 292 Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\',
 293 \'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of
 294 valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is used to "rip" CD
 295 tracks from a single-track flac file.
 296 .TP
 297 .B CUEREADERSYNTAX
 298 Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now
 299 we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used.
 300 .TP
 301 .B KEEPWAVS
 302 It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
 303 set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
 304 behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
 305 files even you have requested the "clean" action.
 306 .TP
 307 .B PADTRACKS
 308 If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
 309 holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
 310 .TP
 311 .B INTERACTIVE
 312 Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
 313 .TP
 314 .B NICE VALUES
 315 Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
 316 processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
 317 with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
 318 .TP
 319 .B PATHNAMES
 320 The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
 321 respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
 322 VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC,
 323 CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3,
 324 VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC,
 325 DIFF and HTTPGET.
 326 .TP
 327 .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
 328 If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde uses,
 329 set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
 330 BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
 331 FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
 332 CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
 333 CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS, DIFFOPTS and
 334 HTTPGETOPTS.
 335 .TP
 336 .B CDSPEEDVALUE
 337 Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
 338 the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
 339 (1x).
 340 .TP
 341 .B ACTIONS
 342 The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
 343 .TP
 344 .B CDROM
 345 If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
 346 extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special
 347 \'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file.
 348 .TP
 349 .B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
 350 Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
 351 cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
 352 .TP
 353 .B OUTPUTDIR
 354 Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
 355 .TP
 356 .B WAVOUTPUTDIR
 357 Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
 358 to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
 359 over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
 360 .TP
 361 .B OUTPUTTYPE
 362 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
 363 encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
 364 (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
 365 Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)) or "wav" (Microsoft
 366 Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and
 367 MP3 formats.
 368 .br
 369 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
 370 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
 371 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
 372 be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
 373 For example
 374 .br
 375 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
 376 .TP
 377 .B OUTPUTFORMAT
 378 Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+
 379 (Musepack) filenames.
 380 Variables are included
 381 using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE,
 382 TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is
 383 \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
 384 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is
 385 automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than
 386 9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line.
 387 .TP
 388 .B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
 389 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
 390 OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
 391 .TP
 392 .B MAXPROCS
 393 Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
 394 on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
 395 efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
 396 mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
 397 .TP
 398 .B LOWDISK
 399 If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
 400 reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
 401 requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
 402 entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
 403 quickly as it can read.
 404 .TP
 405 .B BATCHNORM
 406 If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
 407 volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
 408 when using the \'lame\' encoder.
 409 .TP
 410 .B NOGAP
 411 Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no
 412 silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable
 413 gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag.  This tag is
 414 required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing
 415 variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
 416 .TP
 417 .B PLAYLISTFORMAT
 418 Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
 419 OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
 420 \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
 421 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
 422 .TP
 423 .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
 424 Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
 425 playlists, etc.
 426 .TP
 427 .B DOSPLAYLIST
 428 If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
 429 hardware-based players.
 430 .TP
 431 .B COMMENT
 432 Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
 433 finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
 434 syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
 435 .TP
 436 .B REMOTEHOSTS
 437 Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
 438 distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
 439 .TP
 440 .B mungefilename
 441 mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
 442 abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
 443 stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
 444 question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
 445 translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
 446 .br
 447 If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
 448 slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
 449 the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
 450 newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
 451 .TP
 452 .B mungegenre
 453 mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
 454 a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
 455 to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
 456 .TP
 457 .B pre_read
 458 pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
 459 for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
 460 tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
 461 preparation actions. The default function is empty.
 462 .TP
 463 .B post_read
 464 post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
 465 (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
 466 from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
 467 The default function is empty.
 468 .TP
 469 .B EJECTCD
 470 If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
 471 after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac
 472 file.
 473 .TP
 474 .B EXTRAVERBOSE
 475 If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
 476 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
 477 network/CDDB server is slow.
 478 .SH EXAMPLES
 479 Possible ways one can call abcde
 480 .TP
 481 .B abcde
 482 Will work in most systems
 483 .TP
 484 .B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
 485 If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
 486 .TP
 487 .B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
 488 Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
 489 .TP
 490 .B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
 491 Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
 492 config file
 493 .TP
 494 .B abcde \-W 1
 495 For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
 496 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
 497 and so on.
 498 .TP
 499 .B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
 500 Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embeded cuesheet.
 501 .SH BACKEND TOOLS
 502 abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
 503 .TP
 504 .B *
 505 An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc)
 506 .TP
 507 .B *
 508 An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
 509 .TP
 510 .B *
 511 cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
 512 .TP
 513 .B *
 514 An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others).
 515 .TP
 516 .B *
 517 (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
 518 .TP
 519 .B *
 520 (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
 521 .TP
 522 .B *
 523 (optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
 524 .TP
 525 .B *
 526 (optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain),
 527 .TP
 528 .B *
 529 (optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
 530 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 531 .BR cdparanoia (1),
 532 .BR cdda2wav (1),
 533 .BR dagrab (1),
 534 .BR normalize-audio (1),
 535 .BR oggenc (1),
 536 .BR vorbize (1),
 537 .BR flac (1),
 538 .BR toolame (1),
 539 .BR speexenc (1),
 540 .BR mppenc (1),
 541 .BR id3 (1),
 542 .BR id3v2 (1),
 543 .BR wget (1),
 544 .BR fetch (1),
 545 .BR cd-discid (1),
 546 .BR distmp3 (1),
 547 .BR distmp3host (1),
 548 .BR curl (1),
 549 .BR mkcue (1),
 550 .BR vorbisgain (1),
 551 .BR mp3gain (1)
 552 .SH AUTHORS
 553 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
 554 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.