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abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that
-grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or
-MPP/MP+(Musepack) format, and tags them, all in one go.
+grabs tracks off a CD or a singletrack flac file with an embeded cuesheet,
+encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack)
+format, and tags them, all in one go.
Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/MPP's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory
of the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the
filename munging is customizable - edit the mungefilename function in your
abcde.conf to change it.
-Need to go through an HTTP proxy for CDDB access? No problem, just export your
-http_proxy variable first so wget/fetch/curl can see it.
-
-You already store CDDB entries for your CD collection on your hard disk? Piece
-of cake. Just edit CDDBLOCALDIR to point to the repository and give abcde the
-"-L" flag to make use of it.
-
-Low on disk space? abcde has different algorithms to schedule ripping and
-encoding - to optimize for disk conservation, use -l.
-
-abcde can also take advantage of SMP systems, just like make. Try 'abcde -j 2' -
-it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next track.
-
-abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or another
-CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf.
-
-Frustrated that you can't use the CPU power on Machine A sitting right next to
-Machine B with the fast cdrom drive? Now you don't have to be - Run distmp3host
-(included in distmp3) on Machine A, and then run abcde -r MachineA from Machine
-B (where "MachineA" is a dns name or IP address). Use this in combination with
-'-j 0' to shift all encoding off the local machine.
-
-You do not have internet connection, or just feel with free time to write down
-all the song names and artists instead of using CDDB? Use -n and edit the
-template.
-
-To make abcde 2.x work more like 1.x, put these options in your abcde.conf:
-
-INTERACTIVE=n
-OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
-ID3TAGV=1
+Many of the questions related of problems executing abcde have been moved to the
+FAQ, which should be distributed along with this package. Reffer to that file
+for more help.
MAJOR CHANGES
=============
-Changes in 2.2-pre2:
-
-* Support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) format. It can be downloaded from
+Changes in 2.4:
+* Read TOC entries from the CD. The default uses cdrdao. The program mkcue is
+ also optional.
+* Possibility to use CDDBCHOICE1,CDDBCHOICE2 (i.e., 1,3) to get a diff of two
+ parsed CDDB entries.
+* Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to define wether to show the YEAR and GENRE fields from
+ the CDDB output.
+* Added the possibility of embeding a cuesheet on a singletrack flac file. A
+ single BACKUP flag is most likely needed to use all the needed flags:
+ "abcde -1 -o flac -a default,cue"
+* Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
+ cuesheet as a source to extract tracks from (use -X to specify an external
+ CUE2DISCID implementation; check under examples in the distributed source
+ code or package).
+* Added replaygain for Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC.
+* Added M4A encoding.
+* Uses the default found $CDROMREADER instead of forcing cdparanoia when
+ cdda2wav is installed.
+* BATCH mode has been split into two options: BATCHNORM and NOGAP.
+* Added -U option for non-UNICODE (non UTF-8) tag encoding.
+* Added -z for debug.
+* Added -f to force the removal of left files.
+* CUE support has changed from a flag (-M) to an action (cue).
+
+Changes in 2.3:
+* Support for mkcue, to create a CUE sheet of the CD structure. It can be used
+ with "-1" to create a backup, so that later the original CD can be recreated.
+* New -o <output(1)>:<options(1)>,... way of passing specific options to an
+ output. Now we can pass specific options without having to modify a config
+ file. This feature was already present in the last versions of the 2.2 cycle.
+* Unix PIPEs, as a second way to encode files with a low disc space.
+* Option to erase the "encoded" entries from the status file. Allows one to
+ encode the wav files (in case they were not erased) into another format. This
+ is needed until status information is stored for each format.
+* The "ogg" output mode will be substituted for "vorbis" in the near future.
+ This release adds a compatibility layer so that both entries work.
+* The FLAC encoder forces the files to be overwritten, in case they previously
+ exists. This avoids a half-through abcde run to continue without errors in
+ case it was cancelled during the FLAC encoding.
+* Added a post_read() function so that we can do things with the CD before we
+ eject it.
+
+Changes in 2.2:
+
+* Support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) format. It can be downloaded from
corecodecs.org. It is supposed to be Free (not only free), and released under
the GPL...
-* New "-w <comment>" option to add a comment for a given CD on the command
- line.
-* New "-t <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at
- a given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
- New "-T <number>" option, similar to "-s" but also modifies the tag entries
+* New "-t <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at a
+ given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
+* New "-T <number>" option, similar to "-t" but also modifies the tag entries
on the files themselves.
+* New "-w <COMMENT>" to add a comment to the tracks of a given CD rip. Use
+ quotes.
+* New "-W <number>" option to combine both a comment with "CD #number" and a
+ starting number for both the tracks and the tags with "#01" (that is, 101 for
+ the 1st CD, 201 for the second...)
* Support for keeping an existing playlist (and not add new entries to it),
erase the existing one (overwrite) or append new entries to the existing
one.
system.
* New mungegenre function to switch off (or modify) the default behaviour of
transforming uppercase characters to lowercase.
-* No network but you have been using abcde with local CDDB storage before?
- Use -f and it will try the local CDDB and fallback to an empty template.
-
-Changes in 2.2-pre1:
-
* cdparanoia permits performing a query to the CD drive and obtain a list of
valid audio tracks. So, now we perform such query and process the results.
* Support for "None of the above" has been added with the "0" selection. A
http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or:
* FLAC encoder (flac) or:
* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
-* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc)
+* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc) or:
+* AAC encoder (faac)
* normalize-audio for volume normalization.
-* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility,
-* Or cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from,
-* Or dagrab, another audio CD reading utility.
+* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility or:
+* cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from or:
+* dagrab, another audio CD reading utility.
* cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program. Formerly bundled with abcde.
It's available in Debian or http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/
* An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (MacOSX)
* (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
You can get distmp3 at http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/medlprog.html
-Potential problems:
-
-Having trouble getting cdparanoia to read from your drive as a user? Add
-yourself to the cdrom group, change the permissions on your cdrom device to 660,
-and if you have a SCSI cdrom drive, check the permissions on
-/dev/sg* as well.
-
Abcde's new mailing list is abcde@listas.hispalinux.es. So far has not
been actively used.
The posts from non-subscribers are moderated to prevent spam.
-Archives of the old list are publically available at:
-http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/list/current/threads.html
+Abcde's current page is at http://code.google.com/p/abcde/
-Abcde's current page is at http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php
-Abcde's new homepage will be at http://abcde.hispalinux.es/.
-Abcde's old homepage is at http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/.
--
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
+Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>
-abcde was originally created by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>, but is
-currently maintained by Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
+abcde was originally created by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
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