.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:
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.B *
Do a CDDB query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry
.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.
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+the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "-1 -M -o
+flac" 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
the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
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.B \-u
-Set CDDBPROTOCOL to version 6, so that we retrieve UTF-8 encoded CDDB
+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 CDDBURL
Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
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+.B CDDBPROTO
+Specifies the protocol version used for the CDDB retrieval of results. Version
+6 retrieves CDDB entries in UTF-8 format.
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.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!!
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.B CDDBCOPYLOCAL
Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.