.TP
.B *
Repeat until finished
+.P
+Alternatively,
+.B abcde
+can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded
+cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be
+treated as if it was the original CD. In a way,
+.B abcde
+can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.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 embedded cuesheet,
-the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "-1 -M -o
-flac" for obtaining such a file.
+the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "\-1 \-o
+flac \-a default,cue" 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
-and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies
-cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move.
-Playlist implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize,
+Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: cddb, cue,
+read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain, playlist, clean. Normalize and
+encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read, encode. Move implies cddb, read,
+encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and move. Playlist
+implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except cue, normalize,
replaygain and playlist.
.TP
.B \-b
Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
.TP
-.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 embedded in a flac single file it can be used as source for
-encoding other formats.
-.TP
.B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
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
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 \-q [quality]
+Use a pre-defined quality level for the encoding process. Defined as low,
+medium or high. The "medium" value is used to reset the default values if other
+are used in the config file(s).
+.TP
.B \-r [hosts...]
Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using distmp3. See
the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
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.
+List, separated by commas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
.TP
.B \-S [speed]
Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
.TP
-.B \-u
-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.
+.B \-U
+Set CDDBPROTO to version 5, so that we retrieve ISO-8859-15 encoded CDDB
+information, and we tag and add comments with Latin1 encoding.
.TP
.B \-v
Show the version and exit
Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
variable.
.TP
+.B \-X [cue2discid]
+Use an alternative "cue2discid" implementation. The name of the binary must be
+exactly that. abcde comes with an implementation in python under the examples
+directory. The special keyword "builtin" forces the usage of the internal
+(default) implementation in shell script.
+.TP
.B \-w [comment]
Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
.TP
.B \-W [number]
Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
-to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01".
+to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". For Ogg/Vorbis and
+FLAC files, it also defines a DISCNUMBER tag.
.TP
.B \-z
DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second of each track
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.
+the Perl helper script abcde-musicbrainz-tool to establish a
+conversation with the Musicbrainz server for information retrieval.
.TP
.B CDDBURL
Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
.TP
.B CDDBUSELOCAL
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
+"\-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
.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
+set it to "y". You can use the "\-k" switch in the command line. The default
behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
files even you have requested the "clean" action.
.TP
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.
+CUE2DISCID (see option "\-X"), DIFF and HTTPGET.
.TP
.B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
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, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS,
+FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPPENCOPTS, AACENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, ID3V2OPTS, MP3GAINOPTS,
CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS,
NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS, VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS,
-DIFFOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
+DIFFOPTS, FLACGAINOPTS, VORBISGAINOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
.TP
.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
(Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
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.
+Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. For example
+.br
+OUTPUTTYPE=vorbis,flac
.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
TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is automatically
zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower,
-you can force with
-'-p' in the command line.
+you can force with '\-p' in the command line.
.TP
.B VAOUTPUTFORMAT
-Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. Default is whatever
-OUTPUTFORMAT is set to.
+Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
+.TP
+.B ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
+Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for single-track rips (see option "\-1"). The default is '${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
+.TP
+.B VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
+Just like ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
.TP
.B MAXPROCS
Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
quickly as it can read.
+
+Note that this option may also help when reading
+a CD with errors. This is because on a scratchy disk reading is quite timing
+sensitive and this option reduces the background load on the system which
+allows the ripping program more precise control.
.TP
.B BATCHNORM
If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
.TP
.B REMOTEHOSTS
Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
-distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
+distmp3. Equivalent to \-r.
.TP
.B mungefilename
mungefilename() is an abcde shell function that can be overridden via
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
+Will pass "\-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
config file
.TP
.B abcde \-W 1
An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) or M4A encoder (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mppenc, faac)
.TP
.B *
-An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
+An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, icedax, cdda2wav, dagrab)
.TP
.B *
cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
(optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR cdparanoia (1),
+.BR icedax (1),
.BR cdda2wav (1),
.BR dagrab (1),
.BR normalize-audio (1),
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