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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 or Ogg/Speex
+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's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory of
-the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the
-track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and
-control codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with an underscore and a
-hyphen. The end result usually looks like: Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg
-This filename munging is customizable - edit the mungefilename function in
-your abcde.conf to change it.
+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
+track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and control
+codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with an underscore and a hyphen. The
+end result usually looks like: Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg This
+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
-
-NOTICE: abcde needs cd-discid. Grab it from:
-http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/
+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 2.5:
+* Added working support for Musicbrainz using a perl helper script.
+
+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 "-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.
+* Under ./examples you will find a very basic way to make abcde run in the
+ background and start a non-interactive rip of a CD, if it can find an
+ audio CD in the tray.
+ The abcded script depends on eject and cdparanoia being installed in your
+ system.
+* New mungegenre function to switch off (or modify) the default behaviour of
+ transforming uppercase characters to lowercase.
+* 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
+ template is created, and the selection to edit it is defaulted to "y".
+
New options in 2.1.19:
* ONETRACK mode has been introduced. Setting the flag "-1" will create a
Changes in 2.1.18:
* CDSPEED option defaults to eject. However, since cdparanoia has a built-in
- option to set the speed, we use it. There is not way (right now) to force
- the use of eject, but it will be introduced in a future release. Also one
- can use the pre_read function to set the speed with other program.
+ option to set the speed, we use it. There is not way (right now) to force the
+ use of eject, but it will be introduced in a future release. Also one can use
+ the pre_read function to set the speed with other program.
New options in 2.1.16:
-* -S, CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS for setting the speed of the CDROM. One can
- set the options in abcde.conf and pass the value on the command line.
- This option can be used with "eject -x <speed>", "setcd -x <speed>" or the
- built-in cdparanoia option "-S <speed>", if the CD reader supports it.
+* -S, CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS for setting the speed of the CDROM. One can set
+ the options in abcde.conf and pass the value on the command line. This option
+ can be used with "eject -x <speed>", "setcd -x <speed>" or the built-in
+ cdparanoia option "-S <speed>", if the CD reader supports it.
* Added a pre-read function. Modify it at your pleasure in abcde.conf
One can use it to close the CD drive.
-* -m option, to modify the playlist to include CRLF in every line. Some
- players insist on having those to work properly with playlists.
+* -m option, to modify the playlist to include CRLF in every line. Some players
+ insist on having those to work properly with playlists.
New options in 2.1.15:
Options added/modified from 2.0.3 to 2.1.x:
-* -b use batch processing. It uses normalize to adjust the volume of the
- songs, and a -g gapless option from lame to remove gaps. Only available
+* -b use batch processing. It uses normalize-audio to adjust the volume of
+ the songs, and a -g gapless option from lame to remove gaps. Only available
for mp3+lame combination.
* a new "normalize" option has been added to -a, to normalize the volume.
* -o works now with a combination of the different outputs: ogg, mp3, flac.
Combine them separated by ",". Example: "-o ogg,flac".
-* OUTPUTTYPE is no longer used for the output file type. From version 2.1
- abcde implements multiple-output and the file type is always appended at
- the end of the file. The OUTPUT variable can be used in the
- PLAYLISTFORMAT and OUTPUTFORMAT to create different directory structures
- and playlist names for each of the output formats selected.
-* DYEAR can be used as DiskYear value in CDDB data. If the data is not
- supplied by the CDDB server, it can be added.
+* OUTPUTTYPE is no longer used for the output file type. From version 2.1 abcde
+ implements multiple-output and the file type is always appended at the end of
+ the file. The OUTPUT variable can be used in the PLAYLISTFORMAT and
+ OUTPUTFORMAT to create different directory structures and playlist names for
+ each of the output formats selected.
+
+* DYEAR can be used as DiskYear value in CDDB data. If the data is not supplied
+ by the CDDB server, it can be added.
Other options that changed from 1.x to 2.x:
You can get a trial version of mp3enc at:
http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or:
* FLAC encoder (flac) or:
-* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc)
-* normalize 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.
+* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
+* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc) or:
+* AAC encoder (faac)
+* normalize-audio for volume normalization.
+* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility or:
+* icedax/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/
+ It's available in Debian or http://linukz.org/cd-discid.shtml
* An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (MacOSX)
* id3, an id3 tagging program. Available at: http://lly.org/~rcw/id3/
-* id3v2, an id3 version 2.0 tagger. http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/
+* eyeD3, an id3 version 2.0 tagger. http://eyed3.nicfit.net/
* (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.
-
-Running out of disk space for .wav files but don't want to use -l? Put them
-in a different location by adding WAVOUTPUTDIR=/some/other/path to your
-/etc/abcde.conf or ~/.abcde.conf.
-
-If abcde seems to be ignoring your configuration options or not running
-commands such as the encoder, you may have misquoted something. Config
-options such as the following do not work:
+Abcde's new mailing list is abcde-users@lists.einval.com. Visit
-LAMEOPTS=-h -k
+ http://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abcde-users
-Try this instead:
+to subscribe. Posts from non-subscribers are moderated to prevent
+spam.
-LAMEOPTS='-h -k'
+Abcde's current page is at http://code.google.com/p/abcde/
-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://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/.
--
-Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
+Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>
+Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
+
+abcde was originally created by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
+
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