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:
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
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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