.SH NAME
abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SH NAME
abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
.SH SYNOPSIS
-cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, playlist, clean. Normalize
+cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize
-cddb, read, encode, tag. Playlist implies cddb. The default is to
-do all actions except normalize and playlist.
+cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move.
+Playlist implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize,
+replaygain and playlist.
-Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCH configuration variable.
+Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable.
+.TP
+.B \-B
+Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain
+information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration vatiable.
you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at
least the "read" action during the previous session.
.TP
you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at
least the "read" action during the previous session.
.TP
-.B \-d [devicename]
-CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read.
+.B \-d [devicename | filename]
+CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a
+single-track flac file with embeded cuesheet.
+.B \-e
+Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable
+other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
+.TP
+.B \-g
+Enable lame's \-\-nogap option. See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's
+\-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is required for mp3 players to
+correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
+.TP
Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
.TP
Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
.TP
-Select output type. Can be "ogg", "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc". Specify a
-comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types. See
-the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the encoder for
-a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a colon. The
-options must be escaped with double-quotes.
+Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc" or
+"wav". Specify a comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified
+types. See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can pass options to the
+encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating them with a
+colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
.TP
Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
.TP
-.B \-R
-Add replaygain information to the id3 or tag information for play
-normalization. Only works with MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis.
-.TP
-.B \-s [number]
-[DEPRECATED: use -t, see below]
+.B \-s [fields...]
+List, separated by comas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
+Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory.
This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT
variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identifying
-its compression format, '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
+its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', or '.wav'.
.SH CONFIGURATION
abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
$HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
.TP
.SH CONFIGURATION
abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
$HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
.TP
"-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
.TP
"-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
.TP
.B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
.B OGGENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
-Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\'
-and \'debug\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of valid
-tracks and DATA tracks. Right now, only cdparanoia is supported.
+Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\',
+\'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and obtain a list of
+valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is used to "rip" CD
+tracks from a single-track flac file.
+.TP
+.B CUEREADERSYNTAX
+Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now
+we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used.
.TP
.B KEEPWAVS
It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
.TP
.B KEEPWAVS
It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
files even you have requested the "clean" action.
.TP
.B PADTRACKS
If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
files even you have requested the "clean" action.
.TP
.B PADTRACKS
If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, VORBIZE,
OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS,
The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC, VORBIZE,
OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS,
-CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED
-and HTTPGET.
+CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED,
+VORBISGAIN, MKCUE and HTTPGET.
BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
-extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail.
+extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special
+\'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file.
+.TP
+.B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
+Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
+cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
-encoder. Defaults to "ogg". Valid settings are "ogg" (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3"
-(MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex)
-and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like "ogg,mp3" encode the tracks in
-both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
+encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
+(Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
+Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)) or "wav" (Microsoft
+Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and
+MP3 formats.
.br
For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
.br
For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
-be 'ogg', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
+be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
when using the \'lame\' encoder.
.TP
If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
when using the \'lame\' encoder.
.TP
+.B NOGAP
+Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no
+silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable
+gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is
+required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing
+variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
+.TP
.B PLAYLISTFORMAT
Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
.B PLAYLISTFORMAT
Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
preparation actions. The default function is empty.
.TP
tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
preparation actions. The default function is empty.
.TP
+.B post_read
+post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
+(and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
+from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
+The default function is empty.
+.TP
-.B abcde -W 1
-For double CDs settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
-101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks
+.B abcde \-W 1
+For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
+101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
+and so on.
+.TP
+.B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
+Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embeded cuesheet.
-(optional) normalize, a WAV file volume normalizer.
+(optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
+.TP
+.B *
+(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain),
+.TP
+.B *
+(optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
.SH AUTHORS
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.
.SH AUTHORS
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.