+1. INSTALLATION
+ ============
+
+Q. How can I install abcde on my system?
+A. To get abcde you can use a pre-packaged version, available for Debian,
+ FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others.
+ In case you want to install your own release, you need to download the
+ sources and install the complementary programs (abcde is just a frontend
+ and its functionality is provided by other programs).
+ Read
+
+ abcde needs cd-discid. Grab it from:
+ http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/
+
+
+2. EXECUTION
+ =========
+
+3. FORMATS
+ =======
+
+4. MISC PROBLEMS
+ ==== ========
+
+Q. What happened with normalize?
+A. Normalize has changed its name under Debian, which is the GNU/Linux
+ distribution for developing abcde (well, is The GNU/Linux Distribution
+ i only use, at the moment). Now it is called normalize-audio.
+ If you are using some other flavour of OS, you need to change the name
+ of the executable in your abcde.conf file.
+
Q. I am using MacOSX and I am having problems to use abcde.
A. Well, I have a Mac, but I use linux on it. I have not been able to find
a way to make it work there, since I do not have the development tools
Q. What formats can I encode my music to?
A. As for version 2.2, abcde includes support for MP3, Ogg/Vorbis,
- Ogg/Speex, Flac and MPP/MP+(Musepack).
+ Ogg/Speex, Flac and MPP/MP+(Musepack). Support for AAC will be added once
+ an FLOSS encoder/decoder is working.
Q. I have a CD with a data track, and abcde complaints it cannot read/encode
it.
own. If you use the predefined ones (wget, curl and fetch) abcde will try
to use some defaults. Keep in mind that the output should go to the output
as standard output, to be saved in a file for later use.
+
+ If abcde seems to be ignoring your configuration options or not running commands
+ such as the encoder, you may have misquoted something. Config options such as
+ the following do not work:
+
+ LAMEOPTS=-h -k
+
+ Try this instead:
+
+ LAMEOPTS='-h -k'
Q. My hardware player (put it here) does not recognize the playlists created
with abcde. What I am doing wrong?
you include a proper abcde.conf as an example?
A. I do. It should be installed under /etc/abcde.conf and contains more or
less all the defaults abcde uses. You can use $(HOME)/.abcde.conf to
- override those defaults.
+ override those defaults. More information can be obtained from the man page
+ which can be consulted using "man abcde".
+Q. I am running out of disc space.
+A. You have to options. Use -l or define WAVOUTPUTDIR=/some/other/path to your
+ /etc/abcde.conf or ~/.abcde.conf.
+
OBSOLETE
--------
Q. I set KEEPWAVS to "y" but abcde insists on erasing my directory, along
if nothing goes wrong. Take the "clean" out from the action list and you
are done.
UPDATE: KEEPWAVS unselects now the clean action.
+
+--
+Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>