.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
+Do a CDDB or Musicbrainz query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry
.TP
.B *
Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
.TP
.B *
-Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format(s), all in one CD read
+Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A format(s), all in one CD read
.TP
.B *
Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
.TP
.B *
Repeat until finished
+.P
+Alternatively,
+.B abcde
+can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded
+cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be
+treated as if it was the original CD. In a way,
+.B abcde
+can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-1
Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
-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.
+for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embedded cuesheet,
+the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "\-1 \-o
+flac \-a default,cue" 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, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize
-and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies
-cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move.
-Playlist implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize,
+Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: cddb, cue,
+read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize and
+encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies cddb, read,
+encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move. Playlist
+implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except cue, normalize,
replaygain and playlist.
.TP
.B \-b
.TP
.B \-B
Disable batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add the replaygain
-information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration vatiable.
+information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configuration variable.
.TP
.B \-c [filename]
Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
-in this file override those in /etc/abcde.conf or $HOME/.abcde.conf.
+in this file override those in \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR or \fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR.
.TP
.B \-C [discid]
Allows you to resume a session for
.I discid
-when you no longer have the CD available (abcde will automatically resume if
+when you no longer have the CD available (\fBabcde\fR will automatically resume if
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 | filename]
CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a
-single-track flac file with embeded cuesheet.
+single-track flac file with embedded cuesheet.
.TP
.B \-D
Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
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, \fBabcde\fR 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
.TP
.B \-j [number]
Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides
-the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using distmp3 to avoid
+the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using \fBdistmp3\fR to avoid
local encoding processes.
.TP
.B \-k
.B \-L
Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
.TP
+.B \-m
+Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
+endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
+.TP
.B \-n
Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
provide song names, artist(s), ...
.B \-N
Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
.TP
-.B \-m
-Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
-endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
-.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", "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.
+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 \-q [quality]
+Use a pre-defined quality level for the encoding process. Defined as low,
+medium or high. The "medium" value is used to reset the default values if other
+are used in the config file(s).
+.TP
.B \-r [hosts...]
-Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
+Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using \fBdistmp3\fR. See
the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
.TP
.B \-s [fields...]
-List, separated by comas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
+List, separated by commas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
.TP
.B \-S [speed]
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 5, so that we retrieve ISO-8859-15 encoded CDDB
+information, and we tag and add comments with Latin1 encoding.
+.TP
.B \-v
Show the version and exit
.TP
.B \-V
-Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
-sensation nothins is happening.
+Be more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
+sensation nothing is happening. Add this more than once to make things
+even more verbose.
.TP
.B \-x
Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
variable.
.TP
+.B \-X [cue2discid]
+Use an alternative "cue2discid" implementation. The name of the binary must be
+exactly that. \fBabcde\fR comes with an implementation in python under the examples
+directory. The special keyword "builtin" forces the usage of the internal
+(default) implementation in shell script.
+.TP
.B \-w [comment]
Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
.TP
.B \-W [number]
Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
-to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
+to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". For Ogg/Vorbis and
+FLAC files, it also defines a DISCNUMBER tag.
+.TP
+.B \-z
+DEBUG mode: it will rip, using \fBcdparanoia\fR, 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
+A list of tracks you want \fBabcde\fR to process. If this isn't specified, \fBabcde\fR
will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
"abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
.SH OUTPUT
Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track
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', '.mpc', or '.wav'.
+variables in your \fIabcde.conf\fR. Each file is given an extension identifying
+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 appropiate flags at runtime.
-.TP
+\fBabcde\fR sources two configuration files on startup - \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR and
+\fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR, in that order.
+.PP
+The configuration options stated in those files can be overridden by providing
+the appropriate flags at runtime.
+.PP
The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
.TP
.B VARIABLE=value
file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
.TP
-All sh escaping/quoting rules apply.
+All shell escaping/quoting rules apply.
+.TP
+Here is a list of options \fBabcde\fR recognizes:
.TP
-Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
+.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
+the Perl helper script \fBabcde-musicbrainz-tool\fR to establish a
+conversation with the Musicbrainz 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
.B CDDBLOCALDIR
Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
-CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb
+CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under \fI~/.cddb\fR
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
.B CDDBUSELOCAL
-Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
-"-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
+Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overridden using the
+"\-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
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,
.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
+set it to "y". You can use the "\-k" switch in the command line. The default
behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
files even you have requested the "clean" action.
.TP
.B NICE VALUES
Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
-with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
+with \fBdistmp3\fR (DISTMP3NICE).
.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, EYED3, EYED3, METAFLAC,
+CDPARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3,
+VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC,
+CUE2DISCID (see option "\-X"), 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 \fBabcde\fR 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, EYED3OPTS, MP3GAINOPTS,
+CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
+NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
+DIFFOPTS, FLACGAINOPTS, VORBISGAINOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
.TP
.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
\'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.
+Defined as "d" when using \fBcdparanoia\fR with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
+\fBcdparanoia\fR 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), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)) or "wav" (Microsoft
-Waveform). 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. For example
.br
-For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different process for encoding,
+OUTPUTTYPE=vorbis,flac
+.br
+For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, \fBabcde\fR 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
-OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
+Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
+.TP
+.B ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
+Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for single-track rips (see option "\-1"). The default is '${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
+.TP
+.B VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
+Just like ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
.TP
.B MAXPROCS
Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
quickly as it can read.
+
+Note that this option may also help when reading
+a CD with errors. This is because on a scratchy disk reading is quite timing
+sensitive and this option reduces the background load on the system which
+allows the ripping program more precise control.
.TP
.B BATCHNORM
If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
.TP
.B REMOTEHOSTS
Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
-distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
+\fBdistmp3\fR. Equivalent to \-r.
.TP
.B mungefilename
-mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
-abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
+mungefilename() is an \fBabcde\fR shell function that can be overridden via
+\fIabcde.conf\fR. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
.TP
.B pre_read
pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
-for the first time, during abcde execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
+for the first time, during \fBabcde\fR execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
preparation actions. The default function is empty.
.TP
The default function is empty.
.TP
.B EJECTCD
-If set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
+If set to "y", \fBabcde\fR will call \fBeject\fR(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
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
+If set to "1", 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.
+network/CDDB server is slow. Set to "2" or more for even more verbose
+output.
.SH EXAMPLES
-Possible ways one can call abcde
+Possible ways one can call \fBabcde\fR:
.TP
.B abcde
Will work in most systems
.TP
.B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
-If the CDROM you are reding from is not the standard /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
+If the CDROM you are reading from is not the standard \fI/dev/cdrom\fR (in GNU/Linux systems)
.TP
.B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
.TP
.B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
-Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
+Will pass "\-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
config file
.TP
.B abcde \-W 1
and so on.
.TP
.B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
-Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embeded cuesheet.
+Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embedded cuesheet.
.SH BACKEND TOOLS
-abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
+\fBabcde\fR 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)
+An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, icedax, cdda2wav, dagrab)
.TP
.B *
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, abcde-musicbrainz-tool (which depends on
+Perl and some Musicbrainz libraries) can be used to retrieve CDDB
+information about the CD.
.TP
.B *
-(for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
+(for MP3s) id3 or eyeD3, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
.TP
.B *
(optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
(optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
.TP
.B *
-(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain),
+(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 icedax (1),
.BR cdda2wav (1),
.BR dagrab (1),
.BR normalize-audio (1),
.BR toolame (1),
.BR speexenc (1),
.BR mppenc (1),
+.BR faac (1),
.BR id3 (1),
-.BR id3v2 (1),
+.BR eyeD3 (1),
.BR wget (1),
.BR fetch (1),
.BR cd-discid (1),
.BR mp3gain (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
-Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> and contributions from many others.
+Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
+Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>,
+Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> and contributions from many others.
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