.BR abcde
is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into
a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless
-Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack). With one command, it will:
+Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A (AAC) format(s).
+With one command, it will:
.TP
.B *
Do a CDDB query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry
.TP
.B *
-Grab a track from your CD
+Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
.TP
.B *
-Compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format
+Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
.TP
.B *
-Comment or ID3 tag it
+Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A format(s), all in one CD read
.TP
.B *
-Give it an intelligible filename
+Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
+.TP
+.B *
+Give an intelligible filename
+.TP
+.B *
+Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
.TP
.B *
Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
.TP
.B \-1
Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
-for tagging.
-.TP
+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. Use "-1 -M -o
+flac" for obtaining such a file .TP
.B \-a [actions]
Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of:
-cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, playlist, clean. Normalize
+cddb, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize
and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies
-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.
.TP
.B \-b
-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 variable.
.TP
.B \-c [filename]
Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
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
2>logfile')
.TP
+.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 \-f
+Force the removal of the temporary ABCDETEMPDIR directory, even when we have
+not finished. For example, one can read and encode several formats, including
+\'.ogg\', and later on execute a \'move\' action with only one of the given
+formats. On a normal situation it would erase the rest of those encoded
+formats. In this case, abcde will refuse to execute such command, except if \-f
+is used.
+.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
.B \-h
Get help information.
.TP
.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".
-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",
+"m4a" 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.
.TP
.B \-p
Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
.TP
+.B \-P
+Use Unix PIPES to read and encode in one step. It disables multiple encodings,
+since the WAV audio file is never stored in the disc.
+.TP
.B \-r [hosts...]
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.
+When CDDBLOCALDIR and CDDBUSELOCAL are defined, search recursively under the
+defined directory for matches of the CDDB entry.
+.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
Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
.TP
+.B \-u
+Set CDDBPROTO to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB
+information, and we tag and add comments with a proper encoding. This flag will
+be removed and -U will be added to set it to version 5 once version 6 becomes
+the default.
+.TP
.B \-v
Show the version and exit
.TP
Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
.TP
+.B \-z
+DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second of each track
+and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some
+"hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL
+ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
+.TP
.B [tracks]
A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't specified, abcde
will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
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, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
+its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', '.aac' or '.wav'.
.SH CONFIGURATION
abcde sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
$HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
.TP
-The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing
+The configuration options stated on those files can be overriden by providing
the appropiate flags at runtime.
.TP
The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
.TP
Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
.TP
+.B CDDBMETHOD
+Specifies the method we want to use to retrieve the track information. Two
+values are recognized: "cddb" and "musicbrainz". The "cddb" value needs the
+CDDBURL and HELLOINFO variables described below. The "musicbrainz" value uses
+Python to stablish a conversation with the server for information retrieval.
+.TP
.B CDDBURL
Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
.TP
+.B CDDBPROTO
+Specifies the protocol version used for the CDDB retrieval of results. Version
+6 retrieves CDDB entries in UTF-8 format.
+.TP
.B HELLOINFO
Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb
and we can make use of those entries.
.TP
+.B CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
+Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has to be searched recursively trying to find a
+match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL
+is selected, it will be copied to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if
+CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified" or "new".
+.TP
+.B CDDBLOCALPOLICY
+Defines when a CDDB entry should be stored in the defined CDDBLOCALDIR. The
+possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry which has been received from the
+net (overwriting any possible local CDDB entry); "new" for a CDDB entry which
+was received from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
+CDDB entry found in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory; "modified" for a
+CDDB entry found in the local repository but which has been modified by the
+user; and "always" which forces the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of
+the CDDBLOCALDIR no matter where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
+This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root of the local
+repository (if any). STILL NOT WORKING!!
+.TP
.B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
.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 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\'.
Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
.TP
+.B AACENCODERSYNTAX
+Specifies the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. At this point we
+only support \'faac\', so \'default\' points to it.
+.TP
.B NORMALIZERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\'
and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
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,
set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the command line. The default
-behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is the keep the temporary directory and the wav
+behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
files even you have requested the "clean" action.
.TP
.B PADTRACKS
.TP
.B PATHNAMES
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,
-VORBISGAIN, MKCUE and HTTPGET.
+respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
+VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, AACEND, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC,
+CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3,
+VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC,
+DIFF and HTTPGET.
.TP
.B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
-If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde
-uses, set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
+If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde uses,
+set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
-FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
-CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
-CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
+FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS,
+CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
+NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
+DIFFOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
.TP
.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
.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.
Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
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) and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like
-"vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
+Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)), "m4a" (for M4A (AAC)) 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
-be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
-For example
+be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a' and/or 'wav', depending on the
+OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
.br
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
.TP
.B OUTPUTFORMAT
-Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+
-(Musepack) filenames.
-Variables are included
-using standard shell syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE,
-TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is
-\'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
-Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is
-automatically zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than
-9. When lower, you can force with '-p' in the command line.
+Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+
+(Musepack) or M4A filenames. Variables are included using standard shell
+syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE,
+TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
+Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is automatically
+zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower,
+you can force with
+'-p' in the command line.
.TP
.B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
quickly as it can read.
.TP
-.B BATCH
+.B BATCHNORM
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
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
.TP
-.B abcde -d /dev/cdrom2
+.B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
.TP
-.B abcde -o vorbis,flac
+.B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
.TP
-.B abcde -o vorbis:"-b 192"
+.B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
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
+.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.
.SH BACKEND TOOLS
abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
.TP
.B *
-An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex or MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc)
+An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) or M4A encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc, faac)
.TP
.B *
An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
.TP
.B *
-An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others).
+An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X, among others). Alternatively, musicbrainz-get-tracks (which depends on Python) can be used to retrieve CDDB information about the CD.
.TP
.B *
(for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
(optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
.TP
.B *
-(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, replaygain),
+.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 toolame (1),
+.BR speexenc (1),
+.BR mppenc (1),
+.BR faac (1),
.BR id3 (1),
+.BR id3v2 (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),
+.BR vorbisgain (1),
+.BR mp3gain (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.
HCoop / clinton / abcde.git / blobdiff