normalize-audio and files erased by the ripping tool

[clinton/abcde.git] / README

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@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ ABCDE
 =====
 
 abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that
 =====
 
 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
-format, and tags them, all in one go.
+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.

 
 

-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
+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
 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


@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ 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
 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 -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.
 
 abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or
 another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf.


@@ -52,6 +51,31 @@ http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/files/cd-discid/
 
 MAJOR CHANGES
 =============
 
 MAJOR CHANGES
 =============

+Changes in 2.2-pre2:
+
+* 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 "-s <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at 
+  a given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
+* 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.
+
+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 
+  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
 New options in 2.1.19:
 
 * ONETRACK mode has been introduced. Setting the flag "-1" will create a


@@ -113,8 +137,8 @@ Options added/modified from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3:
 
 Options added/modified from 2.0.3 to 2.1.x:
 
 
 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.
   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.


@@ -162,8 +186,9 @@ abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
   You can get a trial version of mp3enc at:
     http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or:
 * FLAC encoder (flac) or:
   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.
+* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
+* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc)
+* 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.