A. To get abcde you can use a pre-packaged version, available for Debian,
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others.
In case you want to install your own release, you need to download the
- sources and install the complementary programs (abcde is just a frontend
+ source and install the complementary programs (abcde is just a frontend
and its functionality is provided by other programs).
abcde needs cd-discid. Grab it from:
Q. I have a problem, and I reported some time ago. Have you solved it already?
A. Maybe. Try downloading the trunk of the development from
- http://svn.hispalinux.es/svn/abcde/trunk
+ https://subversion.pumuki.org/svn/abcde/trunk
Q. When are you going to release a new version?
A. When it is ready. I keep on having new ideas and adding them to the trunk
2. EXECUTION
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+Q. I want to force abcde 2.x to behave more like 1.x. How do I do it?
+A. Put these options in your abcde.conf:
+
+ INTERACTIVE=n
+ OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
+ ID3TAGV=1
+
Q. Low on disk space?
A. abcde has different algorithms to schedule ripping and encoding - to
optimize for disk conservation, use -l. You can also define
Q. I have a CD with a data track, and abcde complaints it cannot read/encode
it.
-A. It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. Right now, I can only think
+A. From version 2.2 onwards, abcde includes some checkings with cdparanoia, to
+ try to get this right.
+ (It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. Right now, I can only think
of getting the track info from CDDB and ask the user for continuing should
a "data" track name is found. But the solution is far from been optimal.
For now, if you find a "data" track and you know the number, restart abcde
- specifying the tracks to be encoded, leaving out the data one.
- From version 2.2 onwards, abcde includes some checkings with cdparanoia, to
- try to get this right.
+ specifying the tracks to be encoded, leaving out the data one).
Q. I am requested to have "eject" when setting the speed although I do not use
it for anything.
name and the tag/comment information.
Q. I have a live concert. I want to encode it in a single file. How do i do it?
-A. Use "-1" and it will be encoded in a single file. Use "-M" to make a CUE
- sheet file where the information about the tracks is stored.
+A. Use "-1" and it will be encoded in a single file. Use "cue" as an action to
+ make a CUE sheet file where the information about the tracks is stored.
+
+Q. Can I use abcde to take a backup of my CD collection?
+A. Yes. Use "abcde -1 -o flac -a default,cue" and it will create a single-track
+ FLAC file with an embedded cuesheet. Later on, you can use the command
+ "abcde -o vorbis -d flac-file.flac" to extract the individual tracks in
+ Ogg/Vorbis format. Of course you can select whatever format you want.
+
3. CDDB
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A. abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or
another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf.
+Q. After requesting CDDB data, I received several answers which seem to be
+ quite alike. Can I find out the difference between some of them?
+A. Yes. When asked which one you want to select, use "X,Y" where X and Y are
+ the numbers of the selections you want to find the difference between.
+
3. FORMATS
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