.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
Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
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.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
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.B *
Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
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.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.
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+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 -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, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize
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.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.
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.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.
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+.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
.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
+If the cuesheet is embedded in a flac single file it can be used as source for
encoding other formats.
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.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.
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.B \-p
Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
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+.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.
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+.B \-R
+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".
the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
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.B \-u
-Set CDDBPROTOCOL to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB
+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.
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.B \-V
Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
-sensation nothins is happening.
+sensation nothing is happening.
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.B \-x
Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
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'.
+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.
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-The configuration options stated on those files can ba overriden by providing
-the appropiate flags at runtime.
+The configuration options stated on those files can be overridden by providing
+the appropriate flags at runtime.
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The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
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Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
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+.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 establish a conversation with the server for information retrieval.
+.TP
.B CDDBURL
Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
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+.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.
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+.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.
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.B CDDBUSELOCAL
-Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
+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.
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Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
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+.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,
.B PATHNAMES
The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
-VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPPENC, ID3, ID3V2, EYED3, METAFLAC,
+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.
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, DIFFOPTS and
-HTTPGETOPTS.
+FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS,
+CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
+NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
+DIFFOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
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.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
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.
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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}'
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.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
Will work in most systems
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.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 /dev/cdrom (in GNU/Linux systems)
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.B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
and so on.
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.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:
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.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)
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.B *
An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
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.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.
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.B *
(for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
(optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
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.B *
-(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain),
+(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain, replaygain),
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.B *
(optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
.BR toolame (1),
.BR speexenc (1),
.BR mppenc (1),
+.BR faac (1),
.BR id3 (1),
.BR id3v2 (1),
.BR wget (1),
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