Q. Who created abcde? Who develops it nowadays?
A. It was originally created by Robert Woodcook. He decided to give up
- maintaining it at some point in 2002 and Jesus Climent took over. Contact
- jesus.climent@hispalinux.es if you have a problem or a suggestion.
+ maintaining it at some point in 2002 and Jesus Climent took over. In 2012,
+ Colin Tuckley and Steve McIntyre joined in to help. Contact
+ jesus.climent@hispalinux.es, colint@debian.org or 93sam@debian.org if you
+ have a problem or a suggestion.
1. INSTALLATION
Q. I have a problem, and I reported some time ago. Have you solved it already?
A. Maybe. Try downloading the trunk of the development from
- http://svn.hispalinux.es/svn/abcde/trunk
+ http://abcde.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Q. When are you going to release a new version?
A. When it is ready. I keep on having new ideas and adding them to the trunk
Q. I have a CD with a data track, and abcde complaints it cannot read/encode
it.
-A. It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. Right now, I can only think
+A. From version 2.2 onwards, abcde includes some checkings with cdparanoia, to
+ try to get this right.
+ (It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. Right now, I can only think
of getting the track info from CDDB and ask the user for continuing should
a "data" track name is found. But the solution is far from been optimal.
For now, if you find a "data" track and you know the number, restart abcde
- specifying the tracks to be encoded, leaving out the data one.
- From version 2.2 onwards, abcde includes some checkings with cdparanoia, to
- try to get this right.
+ specifying the tracks to be encoded, leaving out the data one).
Q. I am requested to have "eject" when setting the speed although I do not use
it for anything.
name and the tag/comment information.
Q. I have a live concert. I want to encode it in a single file. How do i do it?
-A. Use "-1" and it will be encoded in a single file. Use "-M" to make a CUE
- sheet file where the information about the tracks is stored.
+A. Use "-1" and it will be encoded in a single file. Use "cue" as an action to
+ make a CUE sheet file where the information about the tracks is stored.
+
+Q. Can I use abcde to take a backup of my CD collection?
+A. Yes. Use "abcde -1 -o flac -a default,cue" and it will create a single-track
+ FLAC file with an embedded cuesheet. Later on, you can use the command
+ "abcde -o vorbis -d flac-file.flac" to extract the individual tracks in
+ Ogg/Vorbis format. Of course you can select whatever format you want.
+
-3. CDDB
- ====
+3. CDDB and Musicbrainz
+ ====================
Q. I need to go through an HTTP proxy for CDDB access.
A. No problem, just export your http_proxy variable first so wget/fetch/curl
A. Yes. When asked which one you want to select, use "X,Y" where X and Y are
the numbers of the selections you want to find the difference between.
+Q. I don't like CDDB/FreeDB. How can I use Musicbrainz instead?
+A. Set CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz and try it!
3. FORMATS
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a way to make it work there, since I do not have the development tools
installed. I have placed a basic support, but some user reports are just
complaining about abcde not encoding the ripped tracks, as if
- cdda2wav/cdparanoia/cddafs would never end reading them. If you have such
- a system and experience problems, please, report them, and I will try to
- work them out with your help.
+ icedax/cdda2wav/cdparanoia/cddafs would never end reading them. If you have
+ such a system and experience problems, please, report them, and I will
+ try to work them out with your help.
Q. My hardware player (put it here) does not recognize the playlists created
with abcde. What I am doing wrong?