-.TH ABCDE 1
+.TH abcde 1
.SH NAME
abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
.SH SYNOPSIS
Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
.TP
-.B \-o [filetype]
-Select output type. Can be "ogg", "mp3", "flac", "spx" or "mpc". Specify a
-comma-delimited list of output types to obtain all specified types. See
-the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable.
+.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.
+.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.
.TP
.B \-p
Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
Add replaygain information to the id3 or tag information for play
normalization. Only works with MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis.
.TP
-.B \-s [number]
-[DEPRECATED: use -t, see below]
+.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
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, '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
+its compression format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', or '.mpc'.
.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
The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
.TP
.B VARIABLE=value
"-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\'.
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.
.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
.TP
.B PADTRACKS
If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
-holder. Usefull when encoding tracks 1-9.
+holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
.TP
.B INTERACTIVE
Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
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
-and HTTPGET.
+CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL, EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED,
+VORBISGAIN, MKCUE and HTTPGET.
.TP
.B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs abcde
BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS,
FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS,
CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS,
-CDSPEEDOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
+CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
.TP
.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
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.
.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.
.TP
.TP
.B OUTPUTTYPE
Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
-encoder. Defaults to "ogg". Valid settings are "ogg" (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3"
-(MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex)
-and "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)). Values like "ogg,mp3" encode the tracks in
-both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
+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.
.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 'ogg', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
+be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx' and/or 'mpc', depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define.
For example
.br
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
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.
.TP
.B EXTRAVERBOSE
If set to "y", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
-are visible, such as CDDB queries. Usefull for initial debug and if your
+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 abcde
+.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)
+.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
+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
.SH BACKEND TOOLS
abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
.TP
HCoop / clinton / abcde.git / blobdiff