.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)
.TP
.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
.TP
.B *
Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
.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 embeded cuesheet,
-the file can be used as a source for creating other formats.
+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 \-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
.TP
.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.
.TP
.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.
.TP
+.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
Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
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-.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
-encoding other formats.
-.TP
.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.
.TP
.B \-p
Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
.TP
+.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 \-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 CDDBPROTOCOL 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
.TP
.B \-V
Be a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
-sensation nothins is happening.
+sensation nothing is happening.
.TP
.B \-x
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
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.
.TP
-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.
.TP
The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
.TP
.TP
Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
.TP
+.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.
.TP
+.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
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).
+repository (if any). STILL NOT WORKING!!
.TP
.B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
.TP
.B CDDBUSELOCAL
-Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overriden using the
-"-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
+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.
.TP
.B SHOWCDDBFIELDS
Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
point we only have \'mppenc\' available, from corecodecs.org.
.TP
+.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,
.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
.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.
+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, 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.
.TP
.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. 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
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}'
.TP
.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
-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 work in most systems
.TP
.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)
.TP
.B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
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
and so on.
.TP
.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:
.TP
.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)
.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.
.TP
.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.
.TP
.B *
(for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
(optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
.TP
.B *
-(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain),
+(optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain, replaygain),
.TP
.B *
(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),
.BR toolame (1),
.BR speexenc (1),
.BR mppenc (1),
+.BR faac (1),
.BR id3 (1),
.BR id3v2 (1),
.BR wget (1),