Q. Who created abcde? Who develops it nowadays?
A. It was originally created by Robert Woodcook. He decided to give up
- maintaining it at some point in 2002 and Jesus Climent took over. Contact
- jesus.climent@hispalinux.es if you have a problem or a suggestion.
+ maintaining it at some point in 2002 and Jesus Climent took over. In 2012,
+ Colin Tuckley and Steve McIntyre joined in to help. Contact
+ jesus.climent@hispalinux.es, colint@debian.org or 93sam@debian.org if you
+ have a problem or a suggestion.
1. INSTALLATION
Ogg/Vorbis format. Of course you can select whatever format you want.
-3. CDDB
- ====
+3. CDDB and Musicbrainz
+ ====================
Q. I need to go through an HTTP proxy for CDDB access.
A. No problem, just export your http_proxy variable first so wget/fetch/curl
A. Yes. When asked which one you want to select, use "X,Y" where X and Y are
the numbers of the selections you want to find the difference between.
+Q. I don't like CDDB/FreeDB. How can I use Musicbrainz instead?
+A. Set CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz and try it!
3. FORMATS
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a way to make it work there, since I do not have the development tools
installed. I have placed a basic support, but some user reports are just
complaining about abcde not encoding the ripped tracks, as if
- cdda2wav/cdparanoia/cddafs would never end reading them. If you have such
- a system and experience problems, please, report them, and I will try to
- work them out with your help.
+ icedax/cdda2wav/cdparanoia/cddafs would never end reading them. If you have
+ such a system and experience problems, please, report them, and I will
+ try to work them out with your help.
Q. My hardware player (put it here) does not recognize the playlists created
with abcde. What I am doing wrong?