X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/clinton/abcde.git/blobdiff_plain/99d009faf6f6e870485c182f7701ce93ed5bbdb3..9f659adac68c1a038d7c112806aba0d56bccc741:/README diff --git a/README b/README index e180300..68447e4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ ABCDE ===== abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that -grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC or Ogg/Speex -format, and tags them, all in one go. +grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or +MPP/MP+(Musepack) format, and tags them, all in one go. -Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory of -the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the +Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/MPP's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory +of the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and control codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with an underscore and a hyphen. The end result usually looks like: Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg @@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ Low on disk space? abcde has different algorithms to schedule ripping and encoding - to optimize for disk conservation, use -l. abcde can also take advantage of SMP systems, just like make. Try -'abcde -j 2' - it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next -track. +'abcde -j 2' - it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next track. abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf. @@ -177,7 +176,8 @@ abcde requires the following backend tools to work: You can get a trial version of mp3enc at: http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or: * FLAC encoder (flac) or: -* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) +* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or: +* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc) * normalize for volume normalization. * CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility, * Or cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from,