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.
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.
+ 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 splitted into two options: BATCHNORM and NOGAP.
-* Added -u option for UNICODE (UTF-8) tag encoding.
+* 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 on the original CD can be
- recreated.
+ 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.
http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or:
* FLAC encoder (flac) or:
* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
-* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc)
+* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc) or:
+* AAC encoder (faac)
* 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:
+* 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
-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.
+Abcde's new mailing list is abcde-users@lists.einval.com. Visit
+
+ http://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abcde-users
+
+to subscribe. 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://code.google.com/p/abcde/
-Abcde's current page is at http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php
-Abcde's old homepage is at http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/.
--
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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