.TP
.B \-1
Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
-for tagging.
+for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embeded cuesheet,
+the file can be used as a source for creating other formats.
.TP
.B \-a [actions]
Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of:
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.
.TP
.B \-D
Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
.B \-M
Create a CUE file with information about the CD. Together with the possibility
of creating a single file (see option "\-1"), one can recreate the original CD.
+If the cuesheet is embeded in a flac single file it can be used as source for
+encoding other formats.
.TP
.B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc".
.TP
.B \-R
Add replaygain information to the id3 or tag information for play
-normalization. Only works with MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis.
+normalization. Only works with Ogg/FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
+.TP
+.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".
.TP
.B \-S [speed]
Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
"-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 SHOWCDDBFIELDS
+Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
+Defaults to "year,genre".
+.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\'.
ATM.
.TP
.B CDROMREADERSYNTAX
-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,
.TP
.B CDROM
If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
-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.
.TP
.B OUTPUTDIR
Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
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 EJECTCD
If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
-after all tracks have been read.
+after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac
+file.
.TP
.B EXTRAVERBOSE
If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
network/CDDB server is slow.
.SH EXAMPLES
-Possible ways one can call abcdeÑ
+Possible ways one can call abcde
.TP
.B abcde
Will work in most systems
config file
.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
+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.
.SH BACKEND TOOLS
abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
.TP
.TP
.B *
(optional) normalize, a WAV file volume normalizer.
+.TP
+.B *
+(optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR cdparanoia (1),
.BR cdda2wav (1),
.BR oggenc (1),
.BR vorbize (1),
.BR flac (1),
-.BR speexenc(1),
-.BR mppenc(1),
+.BR speexenc (1),
+.BR mppenc (1),
.BR id3 (1),
.BR wget (1),
.BR fetch (1),
.BR cd-discid (1),
.BR distmp3 (1),
.BR distmp3host (1),
-.BR curl(1)
+.BR curl (1)
+.BR mkcue (1),
.SH AUTHORS
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.
HCoop / clinton / abcde.git / blobdiff