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@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ 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, Ogg/Speex and/or
-MPP/MP+(Musepack) format, and tags them, all in one go.
+grabs tracks off a CD or a singletrack flac file with an embeded cuesheet,
+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/MPP's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory
 of the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the
@@ -15,23 +16,28 @@ abcde.conf to change it.
 
 Many of the questions related of problems executing abcde have been moved to the
 FAQ, which should be distributed along with this package. Reffer to that file 
-for help.
-
-To make abcde 2.x work more like 1.x, put these options in your abcde.conf:
-
-INTERACTIVE=n
-OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
-ID3TAGV=1
+for more help.
 
 MAJOR CHANGES
 =============
 Changes in 2.4:
-* Read TOC entries from the CD. The default uses cdrdao.
+* Read TOC entries from the CD. The default uses cdrdao. The program mkcue is
+  also optional.
 * Possibility to use CDDBCHOICE1,CDDBCHOICE2 (i.e., 1,3) to get a diff of two
   parsed CDDB entries.
 * Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to define wether to show the YEAR and GENRE fields from
   the CDDB output.
-
+* Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
+  cuesheet as a source to extract tracks from.
+* 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.
+* Added -z for debug.
+* Added -f to force the removal of left files.
+ 
 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
@@ -48,6 +54,8 @@ Changes in 2.3:
 * The FLAC encoder forces the files to be overwritten, in case they previously
   exists. This avoids a half-through abcde run to continue without errors in
   case it was cancelled during the FLAC encoding.
+* Added a post_read() function so that we can do things with the CD before we
+  eject it.
 
 Changes in 2.2: