X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/clinton/abcde.git/blobdiff_plain/cc2fac684a375f13428bdb7e1360d8a514aec78c..6d81edb6ec135d2c5ef91d77692fb7402e4e86a5:/abcde

diff --git a/abcde b/abcde
index 22bb6fd..7efa584 100755
--- a/abcde
+++ b/abcde
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 # Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
-# Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
+# Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
 # This code is hereby licensed for public consumption under either the
 # GNU GPL v2 or greater, or Larry Wall's Artistic license - your choice.
 #
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
 #
 # Copyright for this work is to expire January 1, 2010, after which it
 # shall be public domain.
+#
+# $Id$
 
-VERSION="2.2.0"
+VERSION='2.3.99-$Revision$'
 
 usage ()
 {
@@ -20,16 +22,21 @@ echo "Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]"
 echo "Options:"
 echo "-1     Encode the whole CD in a single file"
 echo "-a <action1[,action2]...>"
-echo "       Actions to perform (cddb,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean)"
-echo "-A     Experimental actions (retag, transcode)"
-echo "-b     Batch mode: enable album normalization and nogap encoding"
+echo "       Actions to perform:"
+echo "       cddb,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,replaygain,playlist,clean"
+#echo "-A     Experimental actions (retag, transcode)"
+echo "-b     Enable batch normalization"
+#echo "-B     Disable batch replaygain (do file by file)"
 echo "-c <file>"
 echo "       Specify a configuration file (overrides system and user config files)"
 echo "-C <discid#>"
 echo "       Specify discid to resume from (only needed if you no longer have the cd)"
 echo "-d <device>"
-echo "       Specify CDROM device to grab"
+echo "       Specify CDROM device to grab (flac uses a single-track flac file)"
 echo "-D     Debugging mode (equivalent to sh -x abcde)"
+echo "-e     Erase encoded track information from status file"
+echo "-f     Force operations that otherwise are considered harmful. Read \"man abcde\""
+echo "-g     Use \"lame --nogap\" for MP3 encoding. Disables low disk and pipes flags"
 echo "-h     This help information"
 #echo "-i    Tag files while encoding, when possible (local only) -NWY-"
 echo "-j <#> Number of encoder processes to run at once (localhost)"
@@ -39,27 +46,52 @@ echo "-L     Use local CDDB storage directory"
 echo "-n     No lookup. Don't query CDDB, just create and use template"
 echo "-N     Noninteractive. Never prompt for anything"
 echo "-m     Modify playlist to include CRLF endings, to comply with some players"
+echo "-M     Create a CUE file"
 echo "-o <type1[,type2]...>"
-echo "       Output file type(s) (ogg,mp3,flac,spx,mpc). Defaults to ogg"
+echo "       Output file type(s) (vorbis,mp3,flac,spx,mpc,wav,m4a). Defaults to vorbis"
 echo "-p     Pad track numbers with 0's (if less than 10 tracks)"
-#echo "-P    Use UNIX pipes to read+encode without wav files"
+echo "-P     Use UNIX pipes to read+encode without wav files"
 echo "-r <host1[,host2]...>"
 echo "       Also encode on these remote hosts"
-echo "-R     Add replaygain values to the tag info (only for ogg,flac)"
+echo "-R     Use local CDDB in recursive mode"
+#echo "-R     Add replaygain values to the tag info (only for vorbis,flac,mp3)"
+echo "-s <field>"
+echo "       Show dielfs from the CDDB info (year,genre)"
 echo "-S <#> Set the CD speed"
-#echo "-t    File types to preprocess (wav)"
-#echo "-T    Set postprocessing options"
 echo "-t <#> Start the track numbering at a given number"
 echo "-T <#> Same as -t but modifies tag numbering"
+echo "-u     Use UNICODE tags and comments"
 echo "-v     Show version number and exit"
 echo "-V     Be a bit more verbose about what is happening behind the scenes"
 echo "-x     Eject CD after all tracks are read"
 echo "-w <comment>"
 echo "       Add a comment to the CD tracks"
 echo "-W <#> Contatenate CDs: -T #01 -w \"CD #\"" 
+echo "-z     Use debug CDROMREADERSYNTAX option (needs cdparanoia)"
 echo ""
 echo "Tracks is a space-delimited list of tracks to grab."
-echo "Ranges specified with hyphens are allowed."
+echo "Ranges specified with hyphens are allowed (i.e., 1-5)."
+echo ""
+#echo "Double hyphens are used to concatenate tracks"
+}
+
+addstatus ()
+{
+	echo "$@" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+}
+
+# log [level] [message]
+# 
+# log outputs the right message in a common format
+log ()
+{
+	BLURB="$1"
+	shift
+	case $BLURB in
+		error)   echo "[ERROR] abcde: $@" >&2 ;;
+		warning) echo "[WARNING] $@" >&2 ;;
+		info)    echo "[INFO] $@" ;;
+	esac
 }
 
 # Funtions to replace the need of seq, which is too distribution dependant.
@@ -76,12 +108,42 @@ f_seq_row ()
 f_seq_line ()
 {
 	i=$1
-	while [ $i -ne `expr $2 + 1` ]
-	do
-		printf $i" "
-		i=`expr $i + 1`
+	if echo $i | grep -q "[[:digit:]]" ; then
+		while [ $i -ne `expr $2 + 1` ]
+		do
+			printf $i" "
+			i=`expr $i + 1`
+		done
+		echo
+	else
+		log error "syntax error while processing track numbers"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+# Functions to replace the need of awk {print $1} and {print $NF}
+get_first()
+{
+if [ X"$1" = "X" ]; then
+	for first in `cat`; do
+		break
 	done
-	echo
+else
+	first=$1
+fi
+echo $first
+}
+
+get_last()
+{
+if [ X"$1" = "X" ]; then
+	for stdin in `cat`; do
+		last=$stdin
+	done
+else
+	for last in $@ ; do :; done
+fi
+echo $last
 }
 
 # checkstatus [blurb]
@@ -107,6 +169,29 @@ checkstatus ()
 	fi
 }
 
+# chechwarnings [blurb]
+# Returns "0" if the blurb was found (meaning there was an warning),
+# returns 1 if it wasn't (yes this is a little backwards).
+# Does not print the blurb on stdout.
+# Otherwise, returns "".
+checkwarnings ()
+{
+	if [ -e "$ABCDETEMPDIR/warnings" ]; then :; else
+		return 1
+	fi
+	# Take the last line in the status file if there's multiple matches
+	PATTERN="^$1(:.*)?$"
+	BLURB="$(egrep $PATTERN "$ABCDETEMPDIR/warnings" | tail -n 1)"
+
+	if [ -z "$BLURB" ]; then
+		# negative, we did not have a negative...
+		return 1
+	else
+		# affirmative, we had a negative...
+		return 0
+	fi
+}
+
 # checkerrors [blurb]
 # Returns "0" if the blurb was found (meaning there was an error),
 # returns 1 if it wasn't (yes this is a little backwards).
@@ -119,7 +204,7 @@ checkerrors ()
 	fi
 	# Take the last line in the status file if there's multiple matches
 	PATTERN="^$1(:.*)?$"
-	BLURB="$(egrep $PATTERN $ABCDETEMPDIR/errors | tail -n 1)"
+	BLURB="$(egrep $PATTERN "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors" | tail -n 1)"
 
 	if [ -z "$BLURB" ]; then
 		# negative, we did not have a negative...
@@ -130,6 +215,31 @@ checkerrors ()
 	fi
 }
 
+# page [file]
+# Finds the right pager in the system to display a file
+page ()
+{
+	PAGEFILE="$1"
+	# Use the debian sensible-pager wrapper to pick the pager
+	# user has requested via their $PAGER environment variable
+	if [ -x "/usr/bin/sensible-pager" ]; then
+		/usr/bin/sensible-pager "$PAGEFILE"
+	elif [ -x "$PAGER" ]; then
+		# That failed, try to load the preferred editor, starting
+		# with their PAGER variable
+		$PAGER "$PAGEFILE"
+		# If that fails, check for less
+	elif [ -x /usr/bin/less ]; then
+		/usr/bin/less -f "$PAGEFILE"
+		# more should be on all UNIX systems
+	elif [ -x /bin/more ]; then
+		/bin/more "$PAGEFILE"
+	else
+		# No bananas, just cat the thing
+		cat "$PAGEFILE" >&2
+	fi
+}
+
 # run_command [blurb] [command...]
 # Runs a command, silently if necessary, and updates the status file
 run_command ()
@@ -152,7 +262,7 @@ run_command ()
 		fi
 	fi
 	case "$1" in
-	normalize)
+	normalize|normalize-audio)
 		if [ "$RETURN" = "2" ]; then
 			# File was already normalized.
 			RETURN=0
@@ -218,11 +328,94 @@ relpath ()
 			FR="$(echo "$FR" | cut -d/ -f2-)"
 			TO="../$TO"
 		done
+		;;
 	esac
 
 	echo $TO
 }
 
+# do_getcddbinfo
+# Finds an specific field from cddbinfo
+do_getcddbinfo()
+{
+	case $1 in
+	TRACKNAME1)
+		TRACKNAME="$(grep ^TTITLE$CDDBTRACKNUM= "$CDDBDATA" | head -n 1 | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \[:cntrl:\] | sed 's/\ \+$//')"
+		;;
+	TRACKNAME)
+		TRACKNAME="$(grep ^TTITLE$CDDBTRACKNUM= "$CDDBDATA" | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \[:cntrl:\] | sed 's/\ \+$//')"
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+# do_gettracknum
+# Get the track number we are going to use for different actions
+do_gettracknum()
+{
+	if [ -n "$STARTTRACKNUMBER" ] ; then
+		# Get the trackpadding from the current track
+		CURRENTTRACKPADDING=$(echo -n $UTRACKNUM | wc -c)
+		TRACKNUM=$( printf %0.${CURRENTTRACKPADDING}d $(expr ${UTRACKNUM} + ${STARTTRACKNUMBER} - $FIRSTTRACK ))
+	else
+		TRACKNUM=${UTRACKNUM}
+	fi
+}
+
+do_replaygain()
+{
+	if checkstatus replaygain; then :; else
+		run_command "" echo "Adding replygain information..."
+		for OUTPUT in $( echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
+		do
+			case $OUTPUT in
+				vorbis|ogg)
+					OUTPUT=$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+				flac)
+					OUTPUT=$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+			esac
+			OUTPUTFILES=""
+			REPLAYINDEX=0
+			for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
+			do
+				CDDBTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM - 1)
+				do_getcddbinfo TRACKNAME
+				splitvarious
+				TRACKFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKNAME")"
+				ARTISTFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")"
+				ALBUMFILE="$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")"
+				do_gettracknum
+				if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ]; then
+					OUTPUTFILE="$(eval echo $VAOUTPUTFORMAT)"
+				else
+					OUTPUTFILE="$(eval echo $OUTPUTFORMAT)"
+				fi
+				OUTPUTFILES[$REPLAYINDEX]="$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.$OUTPUT"
+				(( REPLAYINDEX = $REPLAYINDEX + 1 ))
+			done
+			case "$OUTPUT" in
+				flac)
+					run_command replaygain-flac $METAFLAC --add-replay-gain "${OUTPUTFILES[@]}"
+					;;
+				vorbis|ogg)
+					run_command replaygain-vorbis $VORBISGAIN --album "${OUTPUTFILES[@]}"
+					;;
+				mp3)
+					run_command replaygain-mp3 $MP3GAIN -a "${OUTPUTFILES[@]}"
+					;;
+				mpc)
+					run_command replaygain-mpc $MPPGAIN --auto "${OUTPUTFILES[@]}"
+					;;
+				*);;
+			esac
+		done
+		if checkerrors "replaygain-.{3,6}"; then :; else
+			run_command replaygain true
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
 # This code splits the a Various Artist track name from one of the following
 # forms:
 #
@@ -240,43 +433,202 @@ splitvarious ()
 	if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ] && [ ! "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 		case "$VARIOUSARTISTSTYLE" in
 		forward)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's- / -~-g')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's- / -~-g')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
 			;;
 		forward-dash)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's, - ,~,g')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's, - ,~,g')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
 			;;
 		reverse)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's- / -~-g')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's- / -~-g')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
 			;;
 		reverse-dash)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's, - ,~,g')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's, - ,~,g')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
 			;;
 		colon)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's-: -~-g')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's-: -~-g')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
 			;;
 		trailing-paren)
-			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo $TRACKNAME | sed 's,^\(.*\) (\(.*\)),\1~\2,')"
-			TRACKARTIST="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f2 -d~)"
-			TRACKNAME="$(echo $DTITLEARTIST | cut -f1 -d~)"
+			DTITLEARTIST="$(echo "$TRACKNAME" | sed 's,^\(.*\) (\(.*\)),\1~\2,')"
+			TRACKARTIST="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f2 -d~)"
+			TRACKNAME="$(echo "$DTITLEARTIST" | cut -f1 -d~)"
 			;;
 		esac
-	elif [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
+	elif [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ] && [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 		TRACKARTIST="Various"
 	else
-		TRACKARTIST=$DARTIST
+		TRACKARTIST="$DARTIST"
 	fi
 }
 
+do_getgenreid () {
+local genre=$(echo "${@}" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
+local id=""
+	case ${genre} in
+		"blues")                 id=0 ;;
+		"classic rock")          id=1 ;;
+		"country")               id=2 ;;
+		"dance")                 id=3 ;;
+		"disco")                 id=4 ;;
+		"funk")                  id=5 ;;
+		"grunge")                id=6 ;;
+		"hip-hop")               id=7 ;;
+		"jazz")                  id=8 ;;
+		"metal")                 id=9 ;;
+		"new age")               id=10 ;;
+		"oldies")                id=11 ;;
+		"other")                 id=12 ;;
+		"pop")                   id=13 ;;
+		"r&b")                   id=14 ;;
+		"rap")                   id=15 ;;
+		"reggae")                id=16 ;;
+		"rock")                  id=17 ;;
+		"techno")                id=18 ;;
+		"industrial")            id=19 ;;
+		"alternative")           id=20 ;;
+		"ska")                   id=21 ;;
+		"death metal")           id=22 ;;
+		"pranks")                id=23 ;;
+		"soundtrack")            id=24 ;;
+		"euro-techno")           id=25 ;;
+		"ambient")               id=26 ;;
+		"trip-hop")              id=27 ;;
+		"vocal")                 id=28 ;;
+		"jazz+funk")             id=29 ;;
+		"fusion")                id=30 ;;
+		"trance")                id=31 ;;
+		"classical")             id=32 ;;
+		"instrumental")          id=33 ;;
+		"acid")                  id=34 ;;
+		"house")                 id=35 ;;
+		"game")                  id=36 ;;
+		"sound clip")            id=37 ;;
+		"gospel")                id=38 ;;
+		"noise")                 id=39 ;;
+		"alt. rock")             id=40 ;;
+		"bass")                  id=41 ;;
+		"soul")                  id=42 ;;
+		"punk")                  id=43 ;;
+		"space")                 id=44 ;;
+		"meditative")            id=45 ;;
+		"instrum. pop")          id=46 ;;
+		"instrum. rock")         id=47 ;;
+		"ethnic")                id=48 ;;
+		"gothic")                id=49 ;;
+		"darkwave")              id=50 ;;
+		"techno-indust.")        id=51 ;;
+		"electronic")            id=52 ;;
+		"pop-folk")              id=53 ;;
+		"eurodance")             id=54 ;;
+		"dream")                 id=55 ;;
+		"southern rock")         id=56 ;;
+		"comedy")                id=57 ;;
+		"cult")                  id=58 ;;
+		"gangsta")               id=59 ;;
+		"top 40")                id=60 ;;
+		"christian rap")         id=61 ;;
+		"pop/funk"|"pop / funk") id=62 ;;
+		"jungle")                id=63 ;;
+		"native american")       id=64 ;;
+		"cabaret")               id=65 ;;
+		"new wave")              id=66 ;;
+		"psychadelic")           id=67 ;;
+		"rave")                  id=68 ;;
+		"showtunes")             id=69 ;;
+		"trailer")               id=70 ;;
+		"lo-fi")                 id=71 ;;
+		"tribal")                id=72 ;;
+		"acid punk")             id=73 ;;
+		"acid jazz")             id=74 ;;
+		"polka")                 id=75 ;;
+		"retro")                 id=76 ;;
+		"musical")               id=77 ;;
+		"rock & roll")           id=78 ;;
+		"hard rock")             id=79 ;;
+		"folk")                  id=80 ;;
+		"folk/rock")             id=81 ;;
+		"national folk")         id=82 ;;
+		"swing")                 id=83 ;;
+		"fusion")                id=84 ;;
+		"bebob")                 id=85 ;;
+		"latin")                 id=86 ;;
+		"revival")               id=87 ;;
+		"celtic")                id=88 ;;
+		"bluegrass")             id=89 ;;
+		"avantgarde")            id=90 ;;
+		"gothic rock")           id=91 ;;
+		"progress. rock")        id=92 ;;
+		"psychadel. rock")       id=93 ;;
+		"symphonic rock")        id=94 ;;
+		"slow rock")             id=95 ;;
+		"big band")              id=96 ;;
+		"chorus")                id=97 ;;
+		"easy listening")        id=98 ;;
+		"acoustic")              id=99 ;;
+		"humour")                id=100 ;;
+		"speech")                id=101 ;;
+		"chanson")               id=102 ;;
+		"opera")                 id=103 ;;
+		"chamber music")         id=104 ;;
+		"sonata")                id=105 ;;
+		"symphony")              id=106 ;;
+		"booty bass")            id=107 ;;
+		"primus")                id=108 ;;
+		"porn groove")           id=109 ;;
+		"satire")                id=110 ;;
+		"slow jam")              id=111 ;;
+		"club")                  id=112 ;;
+		"tango")                 id=113 ;;
+		"samba")                 id=114 ;;
+		"folklore")              id=115 ;;
+		"ballad")                id=116 ;;
+		"power ballad")          id=117 ;;
+		"rhythmic soul")         id=118 ;;
+		"freestyle")             id=119 ;;
+		"duet")                  id=120 ;;
+		"punk rock")             id=121 ;;
+		"drum solo")             id=122 ;;
+		"a capella")             id=123 ;;
+		"euro-house")            id=124 ;;
+		"dance hall")            id=125 ;;
+		"goa")                   id=126 ;;
+		"drum & bass")           id=127 ;;
+		"club-house")            id=128 ;;
+		"hardcore")              id=129 ;;
+		"terror")                id=130 ;;
+		"indie")                 id=131 ;;
+		"britpop")               id=132 ;;
+		"negerpunk")             id=133 ;;
+		"polsk punk")            id=134 ;;
+		"beat")                  id=135 ;;
+		"christian gangsta rap") id=136 ;;
+		"heavy metal")           id=137 ;;
+		"black metal")           id=138 ;;
+		"crossover")             id=139 ;;
+		"contemporary christian")id=140 ;;
+		"christian rock")        id=141 ;;
+		"merengue")              id=142 ;;
+		"salsa")                 id=143 ;;
+		"thrash metal")          id=144 ;;
+		"anime")                 id=145 ;;
+		"jpop")                  id=146 ;;
+		"synthpop")              id=147 ;;
+		"rock/pop"|"rock / pop") id=148 ;;
+		*)                       return 1 ;;
+	esac
+echo ${id}
+return 0
+}
+
 # do_tag [tracknumber]
 # id3 tags a filename
 # variables used:
@@ -285,125 +637,161 @@ splitvarious ()
 do_tag ()
 {
 	COMMENTOUTPUT="$(eval echo ${COMMENT})"
+	CDDBDISCID=$(echo $TRACKINFO | cut -d' ' -f1)
 	run_command '' echo "Tagging track $1 of $TRACKS: $TRACKNAME..."
 	# If we want to start the tracks with a given number, we need to modify the
 	# TRACKNUM value before evaluation
-	if [ -n "$STARTTRACKNUMBER" -a -n "$STARTTRACKNUMBERTAG" ] ; then
-		# Get the trackpadding from the current track
-		CURRENTTRACKPADDING=$(echo -n $UTRACKNUM | wc -c)
-		TRACKNUM=$( printf %0.${CURRENTTRACKPADDING}d $(expr ${UTRACKNUM} + ${STARTTRACKNUMBER} - 1 ))
+	if [ -n "$STARTTRACKNUMBERTAG" ] ; then
+		do_gettracknum
 	fi
 	for OUTPUT in $(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
 	do
-	case "$OUTPUT" in
-	mp3)
-		# id3v2 v0.1.9 claims to have solved the -c bug, so we merge both id3 and id3v2
-		run_command tagtrack-$1 $TAGGER $TAGGEROPTS -c "$COMMENTOUTPUT" \
-			-A "$DALBUM" -a "$TRACKARTIST" -t "$TRACKNAME" -y "$CDYEAR" \
-			-g "$CDGENRE" -T "$1/$TRACKS" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
-		;;
-	ogg)
-		case "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" in
-			vorbize|oggenc)
-				# vorbiscomment can't do in-place modification, mv the file first
-				if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" -a ! -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OUTPUT" ]; then
-					mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OUTPUT"
-				fi
-				(
-				# These are from http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
-				echo ARTIST=$TRACKARTIST
-				echo ALBUM="$DALBUM"
-				echo TITLE=$TRACKNAME
-               			if [ -n "$CDYEAR" ]; then
-					echo DATE="$CDYEAR"
-               			fi
-		               	if [ -n "$CDGENRE" ]; then
-					echo GENRE="$CDGENRE"
-		                fi	
-				echo TRACKNUMBER=$1
-				echo CDDB=$CDDBDISCID
-				if [ "$(eval echo ${COMMENT})" != "" ]; then
-					case "$COMMENTOUTPUT" in
-						*=*) echo "$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
-						*)   echo COMMENT="$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
-					esac	
-				fi
-				) | run_command tagtrack-$1 $VORBISCOMMENT -w \
-					"$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OUTPUT" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
-				# Doublecheck that the commented file was created successfully before wiping the original
-				if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" ]; then
-					rm -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OUTPUT"
-				else
-					mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OUTPUT" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
-				fi
-				;;
+		case "$OUTPUT" in
+		mp3)
+			# id3v2 v0.1.9 claims to have solved the -c bug, so we merge both id3 and id3v2
+			GENREID=$(do_getgenreid "${CDGENRE}")
+	
+			case "$ID3SYNTAX" in
+				id3);;
+				eyed3)
+					# FIXME # track numbers in mp3 come with 1/10, so we cannot happily substitute them with $TRACKNUM
+					run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 $TAGGER $TAGGEROPTS --commen=::"$COMMENTOUTPUT" \
+						-A "$DALBUM" -a "$TRACKARTIST" -t "$TRACKNAME" -Y "$CDYEAR" \
+						-G "$GENREID" -n "${TRACKNUM:-$1}" "${TRACKNUM:+-N $TRACKS}" \
+						"${ENCODING:+--set-encoding=$ENCODING}"
+						"$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
+					;;
+				*)
+					# FIXME # track numbers in mp3 come with 1/10, so we cannot happily substitute them with $TRACKNUM
+					run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 $TAGGER $TAGGEROPTS -c "$COMMENTOUTPUT" \
+						-A "$DALBUM" -a "$TRACKARTIST" -t "$TRACKNAME" -y "$CDYEAR" \
+						-g "$GENREID" -T "${TRACKNUM:-$1/$TRACKS}" \
+						"$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
+					;;
+			esac
+			;;
+		vorbis|ogg)
+			case "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" in
+				vorbize|oggenc)
+					# vorbiscomment can't do in-place modification, mv the file first
+					if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" -a ! -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" ]; then
+						mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					fi
+					(
+					# These are from http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
+					echo ARTIST="$TRACKARTIST"
+					echo ALBUM="$DALBUM"
+					echo TITLE="$TRACKNAME"
+					if [ -n "$CDYEAR" ]; then
+						echo DATE="$CDYEAR"
+					fi
+					if [ -n "$CDGENRE" ]; then
+						echo GENRE="$CDGENRE"
+					fi	
+					echo TRACKNUMBER=${TRACKNUM:-$1}
+					echo CDDB=$CDDBDISCID
+					if [ "$(eval echo ${COMMENT})" != "" ]; then
+						case "$COMMENTOUTPUT" in
+							*=*) echo "$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
+							*)   echo COMMENT="$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
+						esac	
+					fi
+					) | run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 $VORBISCOMMENT $VORBISCOMMENTOPTS -w \
+						"$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					# Doublecheck that the commented file was created successfully before wiping the original
+					if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" ]; then
+						rm -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					else
+						mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.uncommented.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					fi
+					;;
+			esac
+			;;
+		flac)
+			(
+			echo ARTIST="$TRACKARTIST"
+			echo ALBUM="$DALBUM"
+			echo TITLE="$TRACKNAME"
+			if [ -n "$CDYEAR" ]; then
+				echo DATE="$CDYEAR"
+			fi
+			if [ -n "$CDGENRE" ]; then
+				echo GENRE="$CDGENRE"
+			fi	
+			echo TRACKNUMBER="${TRACKNUM:-$1}"
+			echo CDDB="$CDDBDISCID"
+			if [ "$(eval echo ${COMMENT})" != "" ]; then
+				case "$COMMENTOUTPUT" in
+					*=*) echo "$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
+					*)   echo COMMENT="$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
+				esac	
+			fi
+			) | run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 $METAFLAC $METAFLACOPTS --import-tags-from=- "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+			;;
+		spx)
+			run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 true
+			;;
+		mpc)
+			run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 true
+			;;
+		m4a)
+			run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 true
+			;;
+		wav)
+			run_command tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1 true
+			;;
 		esac
-		;;
-	flac)
-                (
-		echo ARTIST="$TRACKARTIST"
-		echo ALBUM="$DALBUM"
-		echo TITLE="$TRACKNAME"
-               	if [ -n "$CDYEAR" ]; then
-			echo DATE="$CDYEAR"
-               	fi
-               	if [ -n "$CDGENRE" ]; then
-			echo GENRE="$CDGENRE"
-                fi	
-		echo TRACKNUMBER=${TRACKNUM:-$1}
-		echo CDDB=$CDDBDISCID
-		if [ "$(eval echo ${COMMENT})" != "" ]; then
-			case "$COMMENTOUTPUT" in
-				*=*) echo "$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
-				*)   echo COMMENT="$COMMENTOUTPUT";;
-			esac	
-		fi
-                ) | run_command tagtrack-$1 $METAFLAC --import-vc-from=- --no-utf8-convert "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
-		;;
-	spx)
-		run_command tagtrack-$1 true
-		;;
-	mpc)
-		run_command tagtrack-$1 true
-		;;
-	esac
 	done
+	if checkerrors "tagtrack-(.{3,6})-$1"; then :; else
+		run_command tagtrack-$1 true
+	fi
+
 }
 
-# do_batch_encode
+# do_nogap_encode
 # variables used:
 # OUTPUTTYPE, {FOO}ENCODERSYNTAX, ENCNICE, ENCODER, ENCODEROPTS
-do_batch_encode ()
+do_nogap_encode ()
 {
 	# The commands here don't go through run_command because they're never supposed to be silenced
-	echo "Batch encoding tracks: $TRACKQUEUE"
-	OUTPUT=$(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | grep "mp3" )
-	case "$OUTPUT" in
-	mp3)
-		case "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" in
-		lame)
-			(
-			cd "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
-			TRACKFILES=
-			for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
-			do
-				TRACKFILES="$TRACKFILES track$UTRACKNUM.wav"
-			done
-			nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS --nogap $TRACKFILES
-			RETURN=$?
-			if [ "$RETURN" != "0" ]; then
-				echo "batch-encode: $ENCODER returned code $RETURN" >> errors
-			else
+	echo "Encoding gapless MP3 tracks: $TRACKQUEUE"
+	for OUTPUT in $(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
+	do
+		case "$OUTPUT" in
+		mp3)
+			case "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" in
+			lame)
+				(
+				cd "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
+				TRACKFILES=
 				for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
 				do
-					echo encodetrack-$UTRACKNUM >> status
+					TRACKFILES="$TRACKFILES track$UTRACKNUM.wav"
 				done
-			fi
-			)
+				nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS --nogap $TRACKFILES
+				RETURN=$?
+				if [ "$RETURN" != "0" ]; then
+					echo "nogap-encode: $ENCODER returned code $RETURN" >> errors
+				else
+					for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
+					do
+						run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$UTRACKNUM true
+						#run_command encodetrack-$UTRACKNUM true
+					done
+				fi
+				)
+				;;
+			esac
 			;;
 		esac
-		;;
-	esac
+	done		
+	if checkerrors "nogap-encode"; then :; else
+		if [ ! "$KEEPWAVS" = "y" ] ; then
+			if [ ! "$KEEPWAVS" = "move" ] ; then
+				rm -f "$IN"
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
 	# Other encoders fall through to normal encoding as the tracks
 	# have not been entered in the status file.
 }
@@ -414,54 +802,117 @@ do_batch_encode ()
 # TRACKS, TRACKNAME, TRACKARTIST, DISTMP3, DISTMP3OPTS, {FOO}ENCODERSYNTAX, OUTPUTTYPE, ENCODEROPTS, DALBUM, DARTIST, ENCNICE, CDYEAR, CDGENRE, COMMENT
 do_encode ()
 {
-	IN="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.wav"
-	# We need IN to proceed.
-	if [ -s "$IN" ] ; then
+	if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+		case "$OUTPUT" in
+			mp3)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX"
+				;;
+			vorbis|ogg)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$OGGENCODERSYNTAX"
+				;;
+			flac)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$FLACENCODERSYNTAX"
+				;;
+			spx)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$SPEEXENCODER"
+				;;
+			mpc)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$MPPENCODER"
+				;;
+			m4a)
+				TEMPARG="PIPE_$MPPENCODER"
+				;;
+		esac
+		IN="$( eval echo "\$$TEMPARG" )"
+	else
+		IN="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.wav"
+		case "$OUTPUT" in
+			mp3)
+				case "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" in
+					# FIXME # check if mp3enc needs -if for pipes
+					# FIXME # I have not been able to find a working mp3enc binary
+					mp3enc)
+						FILEARG="-if $IN"
+						;;
+					*)
+						FILEARG="$IN"
+						;;
+				esac
+				;;
+			*)
+				FILEARG="$IN"
+				;;
+		esac
+	fi
+	# We need IN to proceed, if we are not using pipes.
+	if [ -s "$IN" -o X"$USEPIPES" = "Xy" ] ; then
 		for OUTPUT in $(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
 		do
-			OUT="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
-			run_command '' echo "Encoding track $1 of $TRACKS: $TRACKNAME..."
+			case "$OUTPUT" in
+				vorbis|ogg)
+					OUT="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					OUTPUT=$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+				flac)
+					OUT="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER"
+					OUTPUT=$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+				*)
+					OUT="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT"
+					;;
+			esac
+			if [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ] && checkstatus encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 ; then 
+				continue
+			fi
+			if [ X"$USEPIPES" = "Xy" ]; then
+				RUN_COMMAND=""
+				# We need a way to store the creation of the files when using PIPES
+				RUN_COMMAND_PIPES="run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 true"
+			else
+				run_command '' echo "Encoding track $1 of $TRACKS: $TRACKNAME..."
+				RUN_COMMAND="run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1"
+			fi
 			case "$OUTPUT" in
 			mp3)
 				case "$2" in
 				%local*%)
 					case "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" in
-					lame|gogo) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS "$IN" "$OUT" ;;
-					bladeenc) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS -quit "$IN" ;;
-					l3enc|xingmp3enc) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER "$IN" "$OUT" $MP3ENCODEROPTS ;;
-					mp3enc) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER -if "$IN" -of "$OUT" $MP3ENCODEROPTS ;;
+					lame|gogo) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS "$IN" "$OUT" ;;
+					bladeenc) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER $MP3ENCODEROPTS -quit "$IN" ;;
+					l3enc|xingmp3enc) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER "$IN" "$OUT" $MP3ENCODEROPTS ;;
+					# FIXME # Relates to the previous FIXME since it might need the "-if" removed.
+					mp3enc) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $MP3ENCODER -if "$IN" -of "$OUT" $MP3ENCODEROPTS ;;
 					esac
 					;;
 				*)
-					run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" >/dev/null 2>&1
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" >/dev/null 2>&1
 					;;
 				esac
 				;;
-			ogg)
+			vorbis|ogg)
 				case "$2" in
 				%local*%)
 					case "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" in
-					vorbize) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $OGGENCODER $OGGENCODEROPTS -w "$OUT" "$IN" ;;
-					oggenc) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $OGGENCODER $OGGENCODEROPTS -o "$OUT" "$IN" ;;
+					vorbize) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $OGGENCODER $OGGENCODEROPTS -w "$OUT" "$IN" ;;
+					oggenc) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $OGGENCODER $OGGENCODEROPTS -o "$OUT" "$IN" ;;
 					esac
 					;;
 				*)
-					run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" >/dev/null 2>&1
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" >/dev/null 2>&1
 					;;
 				esac
 				;;
 			flac)
 				case "$2" in
-	                        %local*%)
+				%local*%)
 					case "$FLACENCODERSYNTAX" in
-					flac) run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $FLACENCODER  $FLACENCODEROPTS -o "$OUT" "$IN" ;; 
+					flac) $RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $FLACENCODER -f $FLACENCODEROPTS -o "$OUT" "$IN" ;; 
 				        esac
-					;;
-	
-				*)
-					echo -n "DISTMP3:"
-					echo "$DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS $2 $IN $OUT >/dev/null 2>&1"
-					run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" > /dev/null 2>&1
+						;;
+					*)
+						vecho -n "DISTMP3:"
+						vecho "$DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS $2 $IN $OUT >/dev/null 2>&1"
+						$RUN_COMMAND nice $DISTMP3NICE $DISTMP3 $DISTMP3OPTS "$2" "$IN" "$OUT" > /dev/null 2>&1
 					;;
 				esac
 				;;
@@ -475,9 +926,9 @@ do_encode ()
 				fi
 				# Quick hack to avoid tagging Ogg/Speex, since there is no other way to tag than inline tagging
 				if [ ! "$DOTAG" = "y" ]; then
-					run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $SPEEXENCODER $SPEEXENCODEROPTS --author "$TRACKARTIST" --title "$TRACKNAME" "$COMMENT" "$IN" "$OUT"
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $SPEEXENCODER $SPEEXENCODEROPTS --author "$TRACKARTIST" --title "$TRACKNAME" "$COMMENT" "$IN" "$OUT"
 				else
-					run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $SPEEXENCODER $SPEEXENCODEROPTS "$IN" "$OUT"
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $SPEEXENCODER $SPEEXENCODEROPTS "$IN" "$OUT"
 				fi
 				;;
 			mpc)	
@@ -487,24 +938,35 @@ do_encode ()
 				# errors, so I have not tried it myself.
 				## FIXME ## Needs some cleanup to determine if an empty tag sent
 				## FIXME ## to the encoder ends up empty.
-				run_command encodetrack-$OUTPUT-$1 nice $ENCNICE $MPPENCODER $MPPENCODEROPTS --artist "$TRACKARTIST" --album "$DALBUM" --title "$TRACKNAME" --track "$1" --genre "$CDGENRE" --year "$CDYEAR" --comment "$COMMENT" "$IN" "$OUT"
+				$RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $MPPENCODER $MPPENCODEROPTS --artist "$TRACKARTIST" --album "$DALBUM" --title "$TRACKNAME" --track "$1" --genre "$CDGENRE" --year "$CDYEAR" --comment "$COMMENT" "$IN" "$OUT"
+				;;
+			m4a)
+				# Quick hack to avoid tagging Ogg/Speex, since there is no other way to tag than inline tagging
+				if [ ! "$DOTAG" = "y" ]; then
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $AACENCODER $AACENCODEROPTS --artist "$TRACKARTIST" --album "$DALBUM" --title "$TRACKNAME" --track "$1" --genre "$CDGENRE" --year "$CDYEAR" --comment "$COMMENT" -o "$OUT" "$IN"
+					
+				else
+					$RUN_COMMAND nice $ENCNICE $AACENCODER $AACENCODEROPTS -o "$OUT" "$IN"
+				fi
+				;;
+			wav)
+				# In case of wav output we need nothing. Just keep the wavs.
 				;;
 			esac
+			$RUN_COMMAND_PIPES
 		done
 		# Only remove .wav if the encoding succeeded
-		if checkerrors "encodetrack-(.{3,4})-$1"; then 
-			run_command encodetrack-$1 false
-		else
+		if checkerrors "encodetrack-(.{3,6})-$1"; then :; else
 			run_command encodetrack-$1 true
 			if [ ! "$KEEPWAVS" = "y" ] ; then
-				rm -f "$IN"
+				if [ ! "$KEEPWAVS" = "move" ] ; then
+					rm -f "$IN"
+				fi
 			fi
 		fi
 	else
-		if [ "$(checkstatus encode-output)" = "loud" ]; then
-			echo "HEH! The file we were about to encode disappeared:"
-			echo ">> $IN"
-		fi
+		run_command "" echo "HEH! The file we were about to encode disappeared:"
+		run_command "" echo ">> $IN"
 		run_command encodetrack-$1 false
 	fi
 }
@@ -588,9 +1050,18 @@ do_encode ()
 #	done
 #}
 
+# do_single_gain
+# variables used:
+# FIXME #
+do_single_gain ()
+{
+:
+}
+
 # do_batch_gain
 # variables used:
-# MP3GAIN, MP3GAINOPTS, VORBISGAIN, VORBISGAINOPTS
+# MP3GAIN, MP3GAINOPTS, VORBISGAIN, VORBISGAINOPTS, MPPGAIN, MPPGAINOPTS
+# FIXME #
 do_batch_gain ()
 {
 	# The commands here don't go through run_command because they're never supposed to be silenced
@@ -603,7 +1074,7 @@ do_batch_gain ()
 	do
 		MP3FILES="$TRACKFILES track$UTRACKNUM.mp3"
 	done
-	# XXX: Hard-coded batch option!
+	# FIXME # Hard-coded batch option!
 	$NORMALIZER -b $NORMALIZEROPTS $TRACKFILES
 	RETURN=$?
 	if [ "$RETURN" != "0" ]; then
@@ -680,32 +1151,89 @@ do_move ()
 		# ''' -> ''
 		# '?' -> ''
 		# Eat control characters
-		ALBUMFILE=$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")
-		ARTISTFILE=$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")
-		TRACKFILE=$(mungefilename "$TRACKNAME")
-		GENRE=$(mungegenre "$GENRE")
-		YEAR=$(echo $CDYEAR)
+		ALBUMFILE="$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")"
+		ARTISTFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")"
+		TRACKFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKNAME")"
+		GENRE="$(mungegenre "$GENRE")"
+		YEAR="$(echo $CDYEAR)"
 		# If we want to start the tracks with a given number, we need to modify the
 		# TRACKNUM value before evaluation
-		if [ -n "$STARTTRACKNUMBER" ] ; then
-			# Get the trackpadding from the current track
-			CURRENTTRACKPADDING=$(echo -n $UTRACKNUM | wc -c)
-			TRACKNUM=$( printf %0.${CURRENTTRACKPADDING}d $(expr ${UTRACKNUM} + ${STARTTRACKNUMBER} - 1 ))
-		else
-			TRACKNUM=${UTRACKNUM}
-		fi
+		do_gettracknum
 		# Supported variables for OUTPUTFORMAT are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE,
 		# TRACKFILE, and TRACKNUM.
 		if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ]; then
-			OUTPUTFILE=$(eval echo $VAOUTPUTFORMAT)
-			else
-			OUTPUTFILE=$(eval echo $OUTPUTFORMAT)
+			OUTPUTFILE="$(eval echo "$VAOUTPUTFORMAT")"
+		else
+			OUTPUTFILE="$(eval echo "$OUTPUTFORMAT")"
+		fi
+		if checkerrors "tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1"; then :; else
+			# Once we know the specific output was successful, we can change the OUTPUT to the value containing the container
+			case $OUTPUT in
+				vorbis|ogg)
+					OUTPUT=$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+				flac)
+					OUTPUT=$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER
+					;;
+			esac
+			# Check that the directory for OUTPUTFILE exists, if it doesn't, create it
+			OUTPUTFILEDIR="$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE")"
+			case $OUTPUT in
+				wav)
+					if [ "$DOCLEAN" != "y" ] && [ "$FORCE" != "y" ]; then
+						# FIXME # introduce warnings?
+						:
+					else
+						# mkdir -p shouldn't return an error if the directory already exists
+						mkdir -p "$OUTPUTFILEDIR"
+						run_command movetrack-$1 mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.$OUTPUT"
+						if checkstatus movetrack-output-$OUTPUT; then :; else
+							run_command movetrack-output-$OUTPUT true
+						fi
+					fi
+					;;
+				*)
+					# mkdir -p shouldn't return an error if the directory already exists
+					mkdir -p "$OUTPUTFILEDIR"
+					run_command movetrack-$1 mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.$OUTPUT"
+					if checkstatus movetrack-output-$OUTPUT; then :; else
+						run_command movetrack-output-$OUTPUT true
+					fi
+					;;
+			esac
+			# Lets move the cue file
+			if CUEFILE=$(checkstatus cuefile) >/dev/null ; then 
+				if [ -r "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE" ]; then
+					if checkstatus movecue-$OUTPUT; then :; else
+						# Silence the Copying output since it overlaps with encoding processes...
+						#run_command '' vecho "Copying cue file to its destination directory..."
+						if checkstatus onetrack >/dev/null ; then
+							case $OUTPUT in
+								wav)
+									if [ "$DOCLEAN" != "y" ] && [ "$FORCE" != "y" ]; then
+										# We dont have the dir, since it was not created before.
+										:
+									else
+										run_command movecue-$OUTPUT cp "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.cue"
+									fi
+									;;
+								# NOTE: Creating a cue file with the 3-char-extension files is to comply with
+								# http://brianvictor.tripod.com/mp3cue.htm#details
+								[a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9])
+									run_command movecue-$OUTPUT cp "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.cue"
+									;;
+								*)
+									run_command movecue-$OUTPUT cp "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.$OUTPUT.cue"
+									;;
+							esac
+						else
+							run_command movecue-$OUTPUT cp "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE" "$OUTPUTFILEDIR/$CUEFILE"
+						fi
+						echo movecue-$OUTPUT >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+					fi
+				fi
+			fi
 		fi
-		# Check that the directory for OUTPUTFILE exists, if it doesn't, create it
-		OUTPUTFILEDIR=$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE")
-		# mkdir -p shouldn't return an error if the directory already exists
-		mkdir -p "$OUTPUTFILEDIR"
-		run_command movetrack-$1 mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$1.$OUTPUT" "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE.$OUTPUT"
 	done
 }
 
@@ -718,12 +1246,21 @@ do_playlist ()
 {
 	for OUTPUT in $(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
 	do
+		case $OUTPUT in
+			vorbis|ogg)
+				OUTPUT=$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER
+				;;
+			flac)
+				OUTPUT=$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER
+				;;
+		esac
 		# Create a playlist file for the playlist data to go into.
 		# We used to wipe it out if it existed. Now we request permision if interactive.
 		for LASTTRACK in $TRACKQUEUE; do :; done
-		ALBUMFILE=$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")
-		ARTISTFILE=$(mungefilename "$DARTIST")
+		ALBUMFILE="$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")"
+		ARTISTFILE="$(mungefilename "$DARTIST")"
 		GENRE=$(mungegenre "$GENRE")
+		YEAR=${CDYEAR:-$CDYEAR}
 		if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ] ; then
 			PLAYLISTFILE=$(eval echo $VAPLAYLISTFORMAT)
 		else
@@ -732,7 +1269,6 @@ do_playlist ()
 		FINALPLAYLISTDIR=$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$PLAYLISTFILE")
 		mkdir -p "$FINALPLAYLISTDIR"
 		if [ -s "$OUTPUTDIR/$PLAYLISTFILE" ]; then
-			#echo -n "Erase any existing playlist file? [y/n] (y): " >&2
 			echo -n "Erase, Append to, or Keep the existing playlist file? [e/a/k] (e): " >&2
 			if [ "$INTERACTIVE" = "y" ]; then
 				while [ "$DONE" != "y" ]; do
@@ -758,19 +1294,14 @@ do_playlist ()
 			do
 				# Shares some code with do_move since the filenames have to match
 				CDDBTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM - 1)
-				TRACKNAME=$(grep ^TTITLE$CDDBTRACKNUM= "$CDDBDATA" | cut -f2 -d= | tr -d \[:cntrl:\] | sed 's/\ \+$//')
+				do_getcddbinfo TRACKNAME
 				splitvarious
-				TRACKFILE=$(mungefilename "$TRACKNAME")
-				ARTISTFILE=$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")
+				TRACKFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKNAME")"
+				ARTISTFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")"
+				ALBUMFILE="$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")"
 				# If we want to start the tracks with a given number, we need to modify the
 				# TRACKNUM value before evaluation
-				if [ -n $STARTTRACKNUMBER ] ; then
-					# Get the trackpadding from the current track
-					CURRENTTRACKPADDING=$(echo -n $UTRACKNUM | wc -c)
-					TRACKNUM=$( printf %0.${CURRENTTRACKPADDING}d $(expr ${UTRACKNUM} + ${STARTTRACKNUMBER} - 1 ))
-				else
-					TRACKNUM=${UTRACKNUM}
-				fi
+				do_gettracknum
 				if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ]; then
 					OUTPUTFILE=$(eval echo $VAOUTPUTFORMAT)
 				else
@@ -813,13 +1344,36 @@ do_discid ()
 	#elif [ -z "$DISCID" ]; then
 	if [ -z "$DISCID" ]; then
 		vecho -n "Getting CD track info... "
-		TRACKINFO=$($CDDISCID $CDROM)
+		# In OSX, unmount the disc before a query
+		if [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "OSX" ]; then
+			disktool -u ${CDROM#/dev/}
+		fi
+		if [ "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" = "flac" ] ; then
+			TRACKINFO=$($METAFLAC $METAFLACOPTS --export-cuesheet-to=- $CDROM | $CUE2DISCID)
+		else
+			case "$CDDBMETHOD" in
+				cddb) TRACKINFO=$($CDDISCID $CDROM) ;;
+				# FIXME # musicbrainz needs a cleanup
+				musicbrainz) TRACKINFO=$($MUSICBRAINZ -c $CDROM ) ;;
+			esac
+		fi
 		# Make sure there's a CD in there by checking cd-discid's return code
-		if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then
-			echo "abcde error: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive?" >&2
-			exit 1
+		if [ ! "$?" = "0" ]; then
+			if [ "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" = "flac" ] ; then
+				log error "cuesheet information from the flac file could not be read."
+				log error "Perhaps the flac file does not contain a cuesheet?."
+				exit 1
+			else
+				log error "CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive?"
+				exit 1
+			fi
+		fi
+		# In OSX, remount the disc again
+		if [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "OSX" ]; then
+			disktool -m ${CDROM#/dev/}
 		fi
 		WEHAVEACD=y
+		DISCID=$(echo $TRACKINFO | cut -f1 -d' ')
 	else
 		TRACKINFO=$(cat "$WAVOUTPUTDIR/abcde.$DISCID/discid")
 	fi
@@ -843,12 +1397,20 @@ do_discid ()
 				cdparanoia|debug)
 					if [ "$WEHAVEACD" = "y" ]; then
 						vecho "Querying the CD for audio tracks..."
-						TRACKS=$( $CDROMREADER -Q 2>&1 | egrep '^[[:space:]]+[[:digit:]]' | tail -n 1 |  awk '{print $1}' | tr -d "." | tr '\n' ' ' )
+						CDPARANOIAOUTPUT="$( $CDROMREADER -$CDPARANOIACDROMBUS $CDROM -Q --verbose 2>&1 )"
+						RET=$?
+						if [ ! "$RET" = "0" ];then
+							log warning "something went wrong while querying the CD... Maybe a DATA CD?"
+						fi
+						TRACKS="$(echo "$CDPARANOIAOUTPUT" | egrep '^[[:space:]]+[[:digit:]]' | tail -n 1 | get_first | tr -d "." | tr '\n' ' ')"
 						CDPARANOIAAUDIOTRACKS="$TRACKS"
 					else
-						if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" ] && checkstatus cdparanoia-audio-tracks ; then
-							TRACKS=$( cat $ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks )
-						else
+						# Previous versions of abcde would store the tracks on a file, instead of the status record.
+						if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks" ]; then
+							echo cdparanoia-audio-tracks=$( cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks" ) >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+							rm -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks"
+						fi
+						if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" ] && TRACKS=$(checkstatus cdparanoia-audio-tracks); then :; else
 							TRACKS=$(echo $TRACKINFO | cut -f2 -d' ')
 						fi
 					fi
@@ -858,6 +1420,10 @@ do_discid ()
 		else
 			TRACKS=$(echo $TRACKINFO | cut -f2 -d' ')
 		fi
+		if echo "$TRACKS" | grep "[[:digit:]]" > /dev/null 2>&1 ;then :;else
+			log info "The disc does not contain any tracks. Giving up..."
+			exit 0
+		fi
 		echo -n "Grabbing entire CD - tracks: "
 		if [ ! "$PADTRACKS" = "y" ] ; then
 			TRACKNUMPADDING=$(echo -n $TRACKS | wc -c | tr -d ' ')
@@ -867,7 +1433,7 @@ do_discid ()
 		while [ "$X" -ne "$TRACKS" ]
 		do
 			X=$(printf "%0.${TRACKNUMPADDING}d" $(expr $X + 1))
-			TRACKQUEUE=$(echo "$TRACKQUEUE" $X)
+			TRACKQUEUE=$(echo $TRACKQUEUE $X)
 		done
 		echo $TRACKQUEUE
 	else
@@ -889,8 +1455,6 @@ do_discid ()
 		echo Grabbing tracks: "$TRACKQUEUE"
 	fi
 
-#	for LASTTRACK in $TRACKQUEUE; do :; done
-
 	QUEUEDTRACKS=$(echo $TRACKQUEUE | wc -w | tr -d ' ')
 
 	# We have the discid, create a temp directory after it to store all the temp
@@ -932,7 +1496,7 @@ do_discid ()
 				exit 1
 			fi
 			rm -rf "$ABCDETEMPDIR" || exit 1
-			mkdir "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
+			mkdir -p "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
 			if [ "$?" -gt "0" ]; then
 				# Directory already exists or could not be created
 				echo "abcde: Temp directory $ABCDETEMPDIR could not be created." >&2
@@ -954,25 +1518,71 @@ do_discid ()
 		fi
 	else
 		# We are starting from scratch
-		mkdir "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
+		mkdir -p "$ABCDETEMPDIR"
 		if [ "$?" -gt "0" ]; then
 			# Directory already exists or could not be created
 			echo "abcde: Temp directory $ABCDETEMPDIR could not be created." >&2
 			exit 1
 		fi
 		cat /dev/null > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+		# Store the abcde version in the status file.
+		echo "abcde-version=$VERSION" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+	fi
+	if [ X"$MAKECUEFILE" = "Xy" -a X"$WEHAVEACD" = "Xy" ]; then
+		if checkstatus cuefile > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then :; else
+			CUEFILE=cue-$(echo "$TRACKINFO" | cut -f1 -d' ').txt
+			vecho "Creating cue file..."
+			if $CUEREADER $CUEREADEROPTS > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/$CUEFILE"; then
+				echo cuefile=$CUEFILE >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+			else
+				log warning "reading the CUE sheet with mkcue is still considered experimental"
+				log warning "and there was a problem with the CD reading. abcde will continue,"
+				log warning "but consider reporting the problem to the abcde author"
+			fi
+		fi
 	fi
-	
 	# If we got the CDPARANOIA status and it is not recorded, save it now
-	## FIXME ## ! is non-portable
-	if [ -n "$CDPARANOIAAUDIOTRACKS" ] && ! checkstatus cdparanoia-audio-tracks; then
-		if echo "$CDPARANOIAAUDIOTRACKS" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks"; then
-			echo "cdparanoia-audio-tracks" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+	if [ -n "$CDPARANOIAAUDIOTRACKS" ]; then
+		if checkstatus cdparanoia-audio-tracks > /dev/null 2>&1; then :; else
+			echo cdparanoia-audio-tracks=$CDPARANOIAAUDIOTRACKS >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
 		fi
 	fi
 	
 	# Create the discid file
 	echo "$TRACKINFO" > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/discid"
+	if checkstatus cddbmethod > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then :; else
+		echo "cddbmethod=$CDDBMETHOD" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+	fi
+}
+
+# do_cleancue
+# Create a proper CUE file based on the CUE file we created before.
+do_cleancue()
+{
+	if CUEFILE_IN="$ABCDETEMPDIR"/$(checkstatus cuefile); then
+		CUEFILE_OUT=$CUEFILE_IN.out
+		### FIXME ### checkstatus cddb
+		if [ -e "$CDDBDATA" ]; then
+			vecho "Adding metadata to the cue file..."
+			# FIXME It doesn't preserve spaces! Why?
+			# FIXME parse $track into PERFORMER and TITLE - abcde already has code for this?
+			n=1
+			echo "PERFORMER \"$DARTIST\"" >> "$CUEFILE_OUT"
+			echo "TITLE \"$DALBUM\"" >> "$CUEFILE_OUT"
+			cat "$CUEFILE_IN" | while read line
+			do
+				if echo "$line" | grep -q "INDEX"
+				then
+					eval track="\$TRACK$n"
+					n=$(expr $n + 1)
+					echo "TITLE \"$track\"" >> "$CUEFILE_OUT"
+				fi
+				echo "$line" >> "$CUEFILE_OUT"
+			done
+			mv "$CUEFILE_OUT" "$CUEFILE_IN"
+			echo "cleancuefile" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+		fi
+	fi
 }
 
 # do_cddbparse
@@ -985,7 +1595,19 @@ do_cddbparse ()
 	if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 		vecho "ONETRACK mode selected: displaying only the title of the CD..."
 	fi
-	echo "---- $(grep DTITLE "${CDDBPARSEFILE}" | cut '-d=' -f2- | tr -d \\r\\n ) ----"
+	echo "---- $(grep DTITLE "${CDDBPARSEFILE}" | cut '-d=' -f2- | tr -d \\r\\n ) ----"
+	if [ X"$SHOWCDDBYEAR" = "Xy" ]; then
+		PARSEDYEAR=$(grep DYEAR "${CDDBPARSEFILE}" | cut '-d=' -f2-)
+		if [ ! X"$PARSEDYEAR" = "X" ]; then
+			echo "Year: $PARSEDYEAR"
+		fi
+	fi
+	if [ X"$SHOWCDDBGENRE" = "Xy" ]; then
+		PARSEDGENRE=$(grep DGENRE "${CDDBPARSEFILE}" | cut '-d=' -f2-)
+		if [ ! X"$PARSEDGENRE" = "X" ]; then
+			echo "Genre: $PARSEDGENRE"
+		fi
+	fi
 	if [ ! "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 		for TRACK in $(f_seq_row 1 $TRACKS)
 		do
@@ -1002,43 +1624,72 @@ do_localcddb ()
 	
 		CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="n"
 		CDDBDISCID=$(echo $TRACKINFO | cut -d' ' -f1)
-		CDDBLOCALFILE="${CDDBLOCALDIR}/${CDDBDISCID}"
 		USELOCALRESP="y"
-		
-		# If the user has selected to check a local CDDB repo, we proceed with it
-		if [ -r "${CDDBLOCALFILE}" ]; then
-			# List out disc title/author and contents
-			do_cddbparse "${CDDBLOCALFILE}"
-			echo -n "Locally cached CDDB entry found, use it? [y/n] (y): "
-			if [ "$INTERACTIVE" = "y" ]; then
-				read USELOCALRESP
-				while [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "y" ] && [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "n" ] && [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "" ] ; do
-					echo -n 'Invalid selection. Please answer "y" or "n": '
-					read USELOCALRESP
-				done
-				[ x"$USELOCALRESP" = "x" ] && USELOCALRESP="y"
-			else
-				echo "y" >&2
-			fi
-			if [ "$USELOCALRESP" = "y" ]; then
-			#echo "Using local copy of CDDB data"
-				cp "${CDDBLOCALFILE}" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.1"
-				echo 999 > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery" # Assuming 999 isn't used by CDDB
-				echo cddb-readcomplete >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
-				do_cddbparse "${CDDBLOCALFILE}" > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
-				echo cddb-choice=1 >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
-				CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="y"
+
+		if [ "$CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE" = "y" ]; then
+			CDDBLOCALRESULTS="$(find ${CDDBLOCALDIR} -name "${CDDBDISCID}" -type f 2> /dev/null)"
+			if [ "$(echo "${CDDBLOCALRESULTS}" | wc -l)" = "1" ]; then
+				CDDBLOCALFILE="${CDDBLOCALDIR}/${CDDBLOCALRESULTS}"
+				CDDBLOCALMATCH=single
+			elif (( $(echo "${CDDBLOCALRESULTS}" | wc -l) > 1 )); then
+				CDDBLOCALMATCH=multiple
 			else
-				#echo "Not using local copy of CDDB data"
-				CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="n"
+				CDDBLOCALMATCH=none
 			fi
-			CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="y"
+		elif [ -r "${CDDBLOCALDIR}/${CDDBDISCID}" ]; then
+			CDDBLOCALFILE="${CDDBLOCALDIR}/${CDDBDISCID}"
+			CDDBLOCALMATCH=single
 		else
-			CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="n"
+			CDDBLOCALMATCH=none
 		fi
+		
+		# If the user has selected to check a local CDDB repo, we proceed with it
+		case $CDDBLOCALMATCH in
+			single)
+				# List out disc title/author and contents
+				do_cddbparse "${CDDBLOCALFILE}"
+				echo -n "Locally cached CDDB entry found, use it? [y/n] (y): "
+				if [ "$INTERACTIVE" = "y" ]; then
+					read USELOCALRESP
+					while [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "y" ] && [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "n" ] && [ "$USELOCALRESP" != "" ] ; do
+						echo -n 'Invalid selection. Please answer "y" or "n": '
+						read USELOCALRESP
+					done
+					[ x"$USELOCALRESP" = "x" ] && USELOCALRESP="y"
+				else
+					echo "y" >&2
+				fi
+				if [ "$USELOCALRESP" = "y" ]; then
+					#echo "Using local copy of CDDB data"
+					echo "# DO NOT ERASE THIS LINE! Added by abcde to imitate cddb output" > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.1"
+					cat "${CDDBLOCALFILE}" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.1"
+					echo 999 > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery" # Assuming 999 isn't used by CDDB
+					echo cddb-readcomplete >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+					do_cddbparse "${CDDBLOCALFILE}" > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
+					echo cddb-choice=1 >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+					CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="y"
+				else
+					#echo "Not using local copy of CDDB data"
+					CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="n"
+				fi
+				;;
+			none)
+				CDDBLOCALSUCCESS="n"
+				;;
+		esac
 	fi
 }
 
+do_musicbrainzstat ()
+{
+	:
+}
+
+do_musizbrainz ()
+{
+	:
+}
+
 # do_cddbstat
 do_cddbstat ()
 {
@@ -1168,7 +1819,7 @@ do_cddbread ()
 			# Multiple exact, (possibly multiple) inexact matches
 			IN=
 			if [ "$RESPONSECODE" = "211" ]; then IN=in; fi
-			if [ "$(wc -l < $ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery | tr -d ' ')" -eq 3 ]; then
+			if [ "$(wc -l < "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery" | tr -d ' ')" -eq 3 ]; then
 				echo "One ${IN}exact match:" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
 				tail -n +2 "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery" | head -n 1 >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
 	                        echo cddb-choice=1 >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
@@ -1231,6 +1882,13 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 				CHOICE=$(checkstatus cddb-choice)
 				if [ -n "$CHOICE" ] ; then
 					case $CDDBCHOICES in
+						-1) if head -1 "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbquery" | grep -q "^$" ; then
+								log error "CDDB query failed!" 
+								exit 1
+							else
+								cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
+							fi
+							;;
 						1) cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices" ;;
 						*)
 						echo "Selected: #$CHOICE"
@@ -1240,47 +1898,58 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 				else
 					# The user has a choice to make, display the info in a pager if necessary
 					if [ $(cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices" | wc -l) -ge 24 ]; then
-						# Use the debian sensible-pager wrapper to pick the pager
-						# user has requested via their $PAGER environment variable
-						if [ -x "/usr/bin/sensible-pager" ]; then
-							/usr/bin/sensible-pager "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
-						elif [ -x "$PAGER" ]; then
-							# That failed, try to load the preferred editor, starting
-							# with their PAGER variable
-							$PAGER "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
-							# If that fails, check for less
-						elif [ -x /usr/bin/less ]; then
-							/usr/bin/less -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
-							# more should be on all UNIX systems
-						elif [ -x /bin/more ]; then
-							/bin/more "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
-						else
-							# No bananas, just cat the thing
-							cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices" >&2
-						fi
+						page "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices"
 					else
 						# It's all going to fit in one page, cat it
 						cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbchoices" >&2
 					fi
 					
+					CDDBCHOICENUM=""
+					# Setting the choice to an impossible integer to avoid errors in the numeric comparisons
+					CDCHOICENUM=-1
 					# I'll take CDDB read #3 for $400, Alex
-					echo -n "Which entry would you like abcde to use (0 for none)? [0-$CDDBCHOICES]: " >&2
-					read CDDBCHOICE
-					[ X"$CDDBCHOICE" = "X" ] && CDDBCHOICE=1
-					# Make sure we get a valid choice
-					CDCHOICENUM=$(echo $CDDBCHOICE | xargs printf %d 2>/dev/null)
-				        while [ $CDCHOICENUM -lt 0 ] || [ $CDCHOICENUM -gt $CDDBCHOICES ]; do
-						echo "Invalid selection. Please choose a number between 1 and $CDDBCHOICES." >&2
-						echo -n "Selection [0-$CDDBCHOICES]: " >&2
+					while [ $CDCHOICENUM -lt 0 ] || [ $CDCHOICENUM -gt $CDDBCHOICES ]; do
+						echo -n "Which entry would you like abcde to use (0 for none)? [0-$CDDBCHOICES]: " >&2
 						read CDDBCHOICE
-						CDCHOICENUM=$(echo $CDDBCHOICE | xargs printf %d 2>/dev/null)
+						[ X"$CDDBCHOICE" = "X" ] && CDDBCHOICE=1
+						if echo $CDDBCHOICE | egrep -q "[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]]+,[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]*" ; then
+							if [ ! X"$DIFF" = "X" ]; then
+								PARSECHOICE1=$(echo $CDDBCHOICE | cut -d"," -f1 | xargs printf %d 2>/dev/null)
+								PARSECHOICE2=$(echo $CDDBCHOICE | cut -d"," -f2 | xargs printf %d 2>/dev/null)
+								if [ $PARSECHOICE1 -lt 1 ] || [ $PARSECHOICE1 -gt $CDDBCHOICES ] || \
+								   [ $PARSECHOICE2 -lt 1 ] || [ $PARSECHOICE2 -gt $CDDBCHOICES ] || \
+								   [ $PARSECHOICE1 -eq $PARSECHOICE2 ]; then 
+									echo "Invalid diff range. Please select two coma-separated numbers between 1 and $CDDBCHOICES" >&2
+								else
+									# We parse the 2 choices to diff, store them in temporary files and diff them.
+									for PARSECHOICE in $(echo $CDDBCHOICE | tr , \ ); do
+										do_cddbparse "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$PARSECHOICE" > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.parsechoice.$PARSECHOICE"
+									done
+									echo "Showing diff between choices $PARSECHOICE1 and $PARSECHOICE2..." > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.diff"
+									$DIFF $DIFFOPTS "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.parsechoice.$PARSECHOICE1" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.parsechoice.$PARSECHOICE2" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.diff"
+									if [ $(cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.diff" | wc -l) -ge 24 ]; then
+										page "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.diff"
+									else
+										cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.diff" >&2
+									fi
+								fi
+							else
+								echo "The diff program was not found in your path. Please choose a number between 0 and $CDDBCHOICES." >&2
+							fi
+						elif echo $CDDBCHOICE | egrep -q "[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]*" ; then
+							# Make sure we get a valid choice
+							CDCHOICENUM=$(echo $CDDBCHOICE | xargs printf %d 2>/dev/null)
+							if [ $CDCHOICENUM -lt 0 ] || [ $CDCHOICENUM -gt $CDDBCHOICES ]; then
+								echo "Invalid selection. Please choose a number between 0 and $CDDBCHOICES." >&2
+							fi
+						fi
 					done
 					if [ "$CDCHOICENUM" = "0" ]; then
 						vecho "Creating empty CDDB template..."
 						UNKNOWNDISK=y
-						$CDDBTOOL template $(cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/discid") > $ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.0
+						$CDDBTOOL template $(cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/discid") > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.0"
 					else
-						echo "Selected: #$CDCHOICENUM ($(grep ^DTITLE= $ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$CDCHOICENUM | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \\r\\n))" >&2
+						echo "Selected: #$CDCHOICENUM ($(grep ^DTITLE= "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$CDCHOICENUM" | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \\r\\n))" >&2
 						do_cddbparse "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$CDCHOICENUM"
 					fi
 					echo "cddb-choice=$CDCHOICENUM" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
@@ -1329,7 +1998,7 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 				CDCHOICENUM=1
 				echo "cddb-choice=$CDCHOICENUM" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
 			fi
-			echo "Selected: #$CDCHOICENUM ($(grep ^DTITLE= $ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$CDCHOICENUM | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \\r\\n))" >&2
+			echo "Selected: #$CDCHOICENUM ($(grep ^DTITLE= "$ABCDETEMPDIR/cddbread.$CDCHOICENUM" | cut -f2- -d= | tr -d \\r\\n))" >&2
 		fi
 	fi
 
@@ -1364,20 +2033,30 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 			if [ -x $(which "${EDITOR%%\ *}") ]; then
 				# That failed, try to load the preferred editor, starting
 				# with their EDITOR variable
-				eval $(echo "$EDITOR") "$CDDBDATA"
+				eval $(echo "$EDITOR") \"$CDDBDATA\"
 			fi
 		# If that fails, check for a vi
+		elif which vi >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+			vi "$CDDBDATA"
+		elif [ -x /usr/bin/vim ]; then
+			/usr/bin/vim "$CDDBDATA"
 		elif [ -x /usr/bin/vi ]; then
 			/usr/bin/vi "$CDDBDATA"
+		elif [ -x /bin/vi ]; then
+			/bin/vi "$CDDBDATA"
 		# nano should be on all (modern, i.e., sarge) debian systems
+		elif which nano >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+			nano "$CDDBDATA"
 		elif [ -x /usr/bin/nano ]; then
 			/usr/bin/nano "$CDDBDATA"
 		# mg should be on all OpenBSD systems
+		elif which mg >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+			mg "$CDDBDATA"
 		elif [ -x /usr/bin/mg ]; then
 			/usr/bin/mg "$CDDBDATA"
 		# bomb out
 		else
-			echo "No editor available. Check your EDITOR environment variable." >&2
+			log warning "no editor available. Check your EDITOR environment variable."
 		fi
 		# delete editor backup file if it exists
 		if [ -w "$CDDBDATA~" ]; then
@@ -1387,7 +2066,7 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 
 	# Some heuristics first. Look at Disc Title, and if it starts with
 	# "Various", then we'll assume Various Artists
-	if [ "$(grep ^DTITLE= "$CDDBDATA" | cut -f2 -d= | egrep -ci '^(various|soundtrack|varios|sonora|ost)')" != "0" ]; then
+	if [ "$(grep ^DTITLE= "$CDDBDATA" | cut -f2- -d= | egrep -ci '^(various|soundtrack|varios|sonora|ost)')" != "0" ]; then
 		echo "Looks like a Multi-Artist CD" >&2
 		VARIOUSARTISTS=y
 	else
@@ -1470,7 +2149,7 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 	echo "variousartiststyle=$VARIOUSARTISTSTYLE" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
 
 	if [ "$EDITCDDB" = "y" ] && [ "$UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE" = "y" ]; then
-		if [ $CDDBDATAMD5SUM != "" ]  && [ $CDDBDATAMD5SUM != $($MD5SUM "$CDDBDATA" | cut -d " " -f 1) ]; then
+		if [ "$CDDBDATAMD5SUM" != "" ]  && [ "$CDDBDATAMD5SUM" != "$($MD5SUM "$CDDBDATA" | cut -d " " -f 1)" ]; then
 			# This works but does not have the necessary error checking
 			# yet. If you are familiar with the CDDB spec
 			# (see http://www.freedb.org/src/latest/DBFORMAT) 
@@ -1508,82 +2187,71 @@ do_cddbedit ()
 	echo "cddb-edit" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
 }
 
-# do_cdread_one [lasttrack] [firsttrack]
-# 
-# Reads the CD in a single track. Live performances, concerts, mixes,... benefit from this.
-do_cdread_one ()
-{
-	# The commands here don't go through run_command because they're never supposed to be silenced
-	# return codes need to be doublechecked anyway, however
-	LASTTRACKNUMBER=$1
-	FIRSTTRACKNUMBER=$2
-	WAVDATA="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$FIRSTTRACKNUMBER.wav"
-	echo "Grabbing the CD to a single track..." >&2
-	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
-		cdparanoia) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM "1-" "$WAVDATA" >&2 ;;
-		cdda2wav)
-			if [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "OSX" ] ; then
-				# Hei, we have to unmount the device before running anything like cdda2wav in OSX
-				disktool -u ${CDROM#/dev/} 0
-				# Also, in OSX the cdrom device for cdda2wav changes...
-				CDDA2WAVCDROM="IODVDServices"
-			elif [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "FBSD" ] ; then
-				CDDA2WAVCDROM="$CDROMID"
-			else
-				if [ "$CDROMID" = "" ]; then
-					CDDA2WAVCDROM="$CDROM"
-				else
-					CDDA2WAVCDROM="$CDROMID"
-				fi
-			fi
-			nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -D $CDDA2WAVCDROM -t 1+$LASTTRACKNUM "$WAVDATA" >&2 
-			;;
-		dagrab) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM -f $WAVDATA -v $UTRACKNUM >&2 ;;
-		cddafs)
-			# Find the track's mounted path
-			REALTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM + 0)
-			FILEPATH=$(mount | grep "$CDROM on" | sed 's/^[^ ]* on \(.*\) (.*/\1/')
-			FILEPATH=$(find "$FILEPATH" | grep "/$REALTRACKNUM ");
-			# If the file exists, copy it
-			if [ -e "$FILEPATH" ] ; then
-				nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER "$FILEPATH" "$WAVDATA" >&2
-			else
-				false
-			fi ;;
-		debug) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM -w $UTRACKNUM-[:1] "$WAVDATA" >&2 ;;
-	esac
-	RETURN=$?
-	if [ "$RETURN" != "0" -o ! -s "$WAVDATA" ]; then
-		# Thank goodness errors is only machine-parseable up to the
-		# first colon, otherwise this woulda sucked
-		if [ "$RETURN" = "0" -a ! -s "$WAVDATA" ]; then
-			RETURN=73 # fake a return code as cdparanoia return 0 also on aborted reads
-		fi
-                echo "readtrack-$FIRSTTRACKNUMBER: $CDROMREADER returned code $RETURN" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors"
-		return $RETURN
-	else
-		echo readtrack-$FIRSTTRACKNUMBER >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
-	fi
-}
-
 # do_cdread [tracknumber]
+# do_cdread onetrack [firsttrack] [lasttrack]
 # 
 do_cdread ()
 {
 	# The commands here don't go through run_command because they're never supposed to be silenced
 	# return codes need to be doublechecked anyway, however
-	UTRACKNUM=$1
+	if [ "$1" = "onetrack" ]; then
+		# FIXME # Add the possibility of grabbing ranges of tracks in onetrack
+		# FIXME # Until then, we grab the whole CD in one track, no matter what
+		# the user said
+		# We need the first and last track for cdda2wav
+		FIRSTTRACK=$2
+		LASTTRACK=$3
+		UTRACKNUM=$FIRSTTRACK
+		case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
+			flac) READTRACKNUMS="$FIRSTTRACK.1-$(($LASTTRACK + 1)).0" ;;
+			cdparanoia) READTRACKNUMS="$FIRSTTRACK-$LASTTRACK" ;;
+			cdda2wav) READTRACKNUMS="$FIRSTTRACK+$LASTRACK" ;;
+			*) echo "abcde error: $CDROMREADERSYNTAX does not support ONETRACK mode"
+				exit 1 ;;
+		esac
+	else
+		UTRACKNUM=$1
+	fi
 	CDDBTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM - 1)
-	WAVDATA="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$UTRACKNUM.wav"
-	OUTDATA="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$UTRACKNUM.$OUTPUTTYPE"
-	if [ -r "$CDDBDATA" ]; then
-		TRACKNAME=$(grep ^TTITLE$CDDBTRACKNUM= "$CDDBDATA" | head -n 1 | cut -f2 -d= | tr -d \[:cntrl:\])
-		echo "Grabbing track $UTRACKNUM: $TRACKNAME..." >&2
+	if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+		TEMPARG="PIPERIPPER_$CDROMREADERSYNTAX"
+		FILEARG="$( eval echo "\$$TEMPARG" )"
+		REDIR=""
+		PIPE_MESSAGE="and encoding "
+	else
+		WAVDATA="$ABCDETEMPDIR/track$UTRACKNUM.wav"
+		case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
+		## FIXME ## Find the cases for dagrab and flac, to avoid exceptions
+			flac)
+				FILEARG="--output-name=$WAVDATA"
+				;;
+			dagrab)
+				FILEARG="-f $WAVDATA"
+				;;
+			*)
+				FILEARG="$WAVDATA"
+				;;
+		esac
+		REDIR=">&2"
+	fi
+	if [ "$1" = "onetrack" ]; then
+		echo "Grabbing ${PIPE_MESSAGE}tracks $UTRACKNUM - $LASTTRACK as one track ..." >&2
 	else
-		echo "Grabbing track $UTRACKNUM..." >&2
+		if [ -r "$CDDBDATA" ]; then
+			do_getcddbinfo TRACKNAME
+			echo "Grabbing ${PIPE_MESSAGE}track $UTRACKNUM: $TRACKNAME..." >&2
+		else
+			echo "Grabbing ${PIPE_MESSAGE}track $UTRACKNUM..." >&2
+		fi
 	fi
 	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
-		cdparanoia) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM $UTRACKNUM "$WAVDATA" >&2 ;;
+		### FIXME ### use an exception for flac, since it uses -o
+		### FIXME ### Shall we just use -o $FILEARG ??
+		flac)
+			nice $READNICE $FLAC -d --cue=${READTRACKNUMS:-$UTRACKNUM.1-$(($UTRACKNUM + 1)).0} "$FILEARG" "$CDROM" ;;
+		cdparanoia) 
+			echo "nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -$CDPARANOIACDROMBUS $CDROM ${READTRACKNUMS:-$UTRACKNUM} "$FILEARG" $REDIR ;;" > /tmp/log
+			nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -$CDPARANOIACDROMBUS $CDROM ${READTRACKNUMS:-$UTRACKNUM} "$FILEARG" $REDIR ;;
 		cdda2wav)
 			if [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "OSX" ] ; then
 				# Hei, we have to unmount the device before running anything like cdda2wav in OSX
@@ -1599,9 +2267,12 @@ do_cdread ()
 					CDDA2WAVCDROM="$CDROMID"
 				fi
 			fi
-			nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -D $CDDA2WAVCDROM -t $UTRACKNUM "$WAVDATA" >&2 
+			nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -D $CDDA2WAVCDROM -t ${READTRACKNUMS:-$UTRACKNUM} "$FILEARG" $REDIR
+			;;
+		## FIXME ## We have an exception for dagrab, since it uses -f
+		## FIXME ## Shall we just use -f $FILEARG ??
+		dagrab) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM -v $UTRACKNUM "$FILEARG" $REDIR
 			;;
-		dagrab) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM -f $WAVDATA -v $UTRACKNUM >&2 ;;
 		cddafs)
 			# Find the track's mounted path
 			REALTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM + 0)
@@ -1609,23 +2280,37 @@ do_cdread ()
 			FILEPATH=$(find "$FILEPATH" | grep "/$REALTRACKNUM ");
 			# If the file exists, copy it
 			if [ -e "$FILEPATH" ] ; then
-				nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER "$FILEPATH" "$WAVDATA" >&2
+				nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER "$FILEPATH" "$FILEARG" $REDIR
 			else
 				false
 			fi ;;
-		debug) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -d $CDROM -w $UTRACKNUM-[:1] "$WAVDATA" >&2 ;;
+		debug) nice $READNICE $CDROMREADER -$CDPARANOIACDROMBUS $CDROM -w $UTRACKNUM-[:1] "$FILEARG" $REDIR
+			;;
 	esac
 	RETURN=$?
-	if [ "$RETURN" != "0" -o ! -s "$WAVDATA" ]; then
+	# If we get some error or we get some missing wav 
+	# (as long as we dont use pipes)
+	if [ "$RETURN" != "0" -o \( ! -s "$WAVDATA" -a X"$USEPIPES" != "Xy" \) ]; then
 		# Thank goodness errors is only machine-parseable up to the
 		# first colon, otherwise this woulda sucked
 		if [ "$RETURN" = "0" -a ! -s "$WAVDATA" ]; then
 			RETURN=73 # fake a return code as cdparanoia return 0 also on aborted reads
 		fi
-                echo "readtrack-$UTRACKNUM: $CDROMREADER returned code $RETURN" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors"
+		if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+			echo "readencodetrack-$UTRACKNUM: $CDROMREADER returned code $RETURN" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors"
+		else
+			echo "readtrack-$UTRACKNUM: $CDROMREADER returned code $RETURN" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors"
+		fi
 		return $RETURN
 	else
-		echo readtrack-$UTRACKNUM >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+		if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+			echo readencodetrack-$UTRACKNUM >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+		else
+			echo readtrack-$UTRACKNUM >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+			if [ "$1" = "onetrack" ]; then
+				echo onetrack >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+			fi
+		fi
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -1646,7 +2331,25 @@ do_cdspeed ()
 vecho ()
 {
 if [ x"$EXTRAVERBOSE" != "x" ]; then
-	echo $@
+	case $1 in
+		warning) log warning "$@" ;;
+		*) echo "$@" ;;
+	esac
+fi
+}
+
+# decho [message]
+#
+# decho outputs a debug message if DEBUG is selected
+decho ()
+{
+if [ x"$DEBUG" != "x" ]; then
+	if echo $1 | grep -q "^\[" ; then
+		DEBUGECHO=$(echo "$@" | tr -d '[]')
+		echo "[DEBUG] $DEBUGECHO: `eval echo \\$${DEBUGECHO}`"
+	else
+		echo "[DEBUG] $1"
+	fi
 fi
 }
 
@@ -1654,7 +2357,8 @@ fi
 # Custom filename munging:
 mungefilename ()
 {
-	echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ /\* __+ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
+	#echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ /\* __+ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
+	echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ / __ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
 }
 
 # Custom genre munging:
@@ -1670,6 +2374,13 @@ pre_read ()
 :
 }
 
+# post_read
+# Empty post_read function, to be defined in the configuration file.
+post_read ()
+{
+:
+}
+
 ###############################################################################
 # End of functions
 #
@@ -1677,13 +2388,23 @@ pre_read ()
 ###############################################################################
 
 # Builtin defaults
+
+# CDDB
+# Defaults to FreeDB, but a python musicbrainz can be used
+CDDBMETHOD=cddb
 CDDBURL="http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"
 CDDBSUBMIT=freedb-submit@freedb.org
 CDDBPROTO=5
 HELLOINFO="$(whoami)@$(hostname)"
+CDDBCOPYLOCAL="n"
+CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
+CDDBUSELOCAL="n"
+
+# List of fields we parse and show during the CDDB parsing...
+SHOWCDDBFIELDS="year,genre"
+
 INTERACTIVE=y
-CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
-OUTPUTTYPE=ogg
+#CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
 ENCODERSYNTAX=default
 
 MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=default
@@ -1691,7 +2412,9 @@ OGGENCODERSYNTAX=default
 FLACENCODERSYNTAX=default
 SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=default
 MPPENCODERSYNTAX=default
+AACENCODERSYNTAX=default
 NORMALIZERSYNTAX=default
+CUEREADERSYNTAX=default
 
 OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
 # Use the following VAOUTPUTFORMAT to revert to 2.0.x VA format:
@@ -1713,17 +2436,20 @@ VARIOUSARTISTS=n
 VARIOUSARTISTSTYLE=forward
 KEEPWAVS=n
 PADTRACKS=n
-CDDBCOPYLOCAL="n"
-CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
-CDDBUSELOCAL="n"
+NOGAP=n
+BATCHNORM=n
 
 # If using scsi devices, cdda2wav needs a CDROMID, instead of a device node
 # i.e. CDROMID="1,0,0"
 CDROMID=""
+# If we are using the IDE bus, we need CDPARANOIACDROMBUS defined as "d"
+# If we are using the ide-scsi emulation layer, we need to define a "g"
+CDPARANOIACDROMBUS="d"
 
 # program paths - defaults to checking your $PATH
 # mp3
 LAME=lame
+TOOLAME=toolame
 GOGO=gogo
 BLADEENC=bladeenc
 L3ENC=l3enc
@@ -1738,15 +2464,19 @@ FLAC=flac
 SPEEXENC=speexenc
 # mpp (Musepack)
 MPPENC=mppenc
+# m4a
+AACENC=faac
 
 ID3=id3
 ID3V2=id3v2
+EYED3=eyeD3
 CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia
 CDDA2WAV=cdda2wav
 DAGRAB=dagrab
 CDDAFS=cp
 CDDISCID=cd-discid
 CDDBTOOL=cddb-tool
+MUSICBRAINZ=musicbrainz-get-tracks
 EJECT=eject
 MD5SUM=md5sum
 DISTMP3=distmp3
@@ -1755,10 +2485,17 @@ METAFLAC=metaflac
 NORMALIZE=normalize-audio
 CDSPEED=eject
 VORBISGAIN=vorbisgain
+MP3GAIN=mp3gain
+MPPGAIN=replaygain
+MKCUE=mkcue
+MKTOC=cdrdao
+DIFF=diff
+CUE2DISCID=cue2discid
 
 # Options for programs called from abcde
 # mp3
 LAMEOPTS=
+TOOLAMEOPTS=
 GOGOOPTS=
 BLADEENCOPTS=
 L3ENCOPTS=
@@ -1773,6 +2510,8 @@ FLACOPTS=
 SPEEXENCOPTS=
 # mpc
 MPPENCOPTS=
+# m4a
+AACENCOPTS=
 
 ID3OPTS=
 ID3V2OPTS=
@@ -1786,6 +2525,11 @@ DISTMP3OPTS=
 NORMALIZEOPTS=
 CDSPEEDOPTS="-x"
 CDSPEEDVALUE=
+MKCUEOPTS=
+MKTOCOPTS=""
+VORBISCOMMENTOPTS="-R"
+METAFLACOPTS="--no-utf8-convert"
+DIFFOPTS=
 
 # Default to one process if -j isn't specified
 MAXPROCS=1
@@ -1793,10 +2537,18 @@ MAXPROCS=1
 # List of actions to perform - by default, run to completion
 ACTIONS=cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean
 
+# This option is basicaly for Debian package dependencies: 
+# List of prefered outputs - by default, run with whatever we have in the path
+DEFAULT_OUTPUT_BINARIES=vorbis:oggenc,flac:flac,mp3:lame,mp3:bladeenc,spx:speex
+
+# List of prefered cdromreaders - by default, run whichever we have in the path
+DEFAULT_CDROMREADERS="cdparanoia cdda2wav"
+
 # Asume fetch if under FreeBSD. curl is used for Mac OS X. wget is used for Linux/OpenBSD/NetBSD.
 # Let's use these checkings to determine the OS flavour, which will be used later
 if [ X$(uname) = "XFreeBSD" ] ; then
 	HTTPGET=fetch
+	MD5SUM=md5
 	NEEDCDROMID=y
 	OSFLAVOUR=FBSD
 elif [ X$(uname) = "XDarwin" ] ; then
@@ -1804,9 +2556,13 @@ elif [ X$(uname) = "XDarwin" ] ; then
 	OSFLAVOUR=OSX
 	# We should have disktool in OSX, but let's be sure...
 	NEEDDISKTOOL=y
+	CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cddafs
 elif [ X$(uname) = "XOpenBSD" ] ; then
 	HTTPGET=wget
 	MD5SUM=md5
+elif [ X$(uname) = "XNetBSD" ] ; then
+	HTTPGET=ftp
+	MD5SUM=md5
 else
 	HTTPGET=wget
 fi
@@ -1815,6 +2571,7 @@ fi
 # If USEID3 is set to n, no ID3 tagging is done
 CDDBAVAIL=y
 USEID3=y
+USEID3V2=y
 
 if [ -z "$OUTPUTDIR" ]; then
 	OUTPUTDIR=$(pwd)
@@ -1841,7 +2598,8 @@ if [ "$HTTPGETOPTS" = "" ] ; then
 		wget) HTTPGETOPTS="-q -O -";;
 		curl) HTTPGETOPTS="-f -s";;
 		fetch)HTTPGETOPTS="-q -o -";;
-		*) echo "abcde warning: HTTPGET in non-standard and HTTPGETOPTS are not defined." >&2 ;;
+		ftp)  HTTPGETOPTS="-q -o -";;
+		*) log warning "HTTPGET in non-standard and HTTPGETOPTS are not defined." ;;
 	esac
 fi
 
@@ -1863,19 +2621,24 @@ if [ "$CDROM" = "" ] ; then
 fi
 
 # Parse command line options
-#while getopts 1a:bc:C:d:Dhj:klLnNo:pr:S:t:T:vVx opt ; do
-while getopts 1a:A:bc:C:d:Dhj:klLnNo:pr:Rs:S:t:T:vVxw:W: opt ; do
+#while getopts 1a:bc:C:d:Dehj:klLmMnNo:pPr:Rs:S:t:T:vVxw:W: opt ; do
+while getopts 1a:bBc:C:d:Defghj:klLmMnNo:pPr:s:S:t:T:uvVxw:W:z opt ; do
 	case "$opt" in
 		1) ONETRACK=y ;;
 		a) ACTIONS="$OPTARG" ;;
-		A) EXPACTIONS="$OPTARG";;
-		b) BATCH=y ;;
-		c) if [ -e "$OPTARG" ] ; then . "$OPTARG" ; else echo "abcde error: config file \"$OPTARG\" cannot be found." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi ;;
-		C) DISCID="${OPTARG#abcde.}" ;;
+		A) EXPACTIONS="$OPTARG" ;;
+		b) BATCHNORM=y ;;
+		B) NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN=y ;;
+		c) if [ -e "$OPTARG" ] ; then . "$OPTARG" ; else log error "config file \"$OPTARG\" cannot be found." ; exit 1 ; fi ;;
+		C) DISCID="$( echo ${OPTARG#abcde.} | tr -d /)" ;;
 		d) CDROM="$OPTARG" ;;
 		D) set -x ;;
+		e) ERASEENCODEDSTATUS=y ;;
 		h) usage; exit ;;
-#		f) FORCECDDBUSELOCAL=y ;;
+		e) ERASEENCODEDSTATUS=y ;;
+		E) ENCODING="$OPTARG" ;;
+		f) FORCE=y ;;
+		g) NOGAP=y ;;
 		i) INLINETAG=y ;;
 		j) MAXPROCS="$OPTARG" ;;
 		k) KEEPWAVS=y ;;
@@ -1884,18 +2647,17 @@ while getopts 1a:A:bc:C:d:Dhj:klLnNo:pr:Rs:S:t:T:vVxw:W: opt ; do
 		n) CDDBAVAIL=n ;;
 		N) INTERACTIVE=n ;;
 		m) DOSPLAYLIST=y ;;
+		M) MAKECUEFILE=y ;;
 		o) OUTPUTTYPE="$OPTARG" ;;
 		p) PADTRACKS=y ;;
 		P) USEPIPES=y ;;
 		r) REMOTEHOSTS="$OPTARG" ;;
-		R) REPLAYGAIN=y ;;
-		s) STARTTRACKNUMBER="$OPTARG" ;;
+		R) DOREPLAYGAIN=y ;;
+		s) SHOWCDDBFIELDS="$OPTARG" ;;
 		S) CDSPEEDVALUE="$OPTARG" ;;
-#		t) PREPROCESSFORMATS="$OPTARG"
-#		   PREPROCESS=y ;;
-#		T) POSTPROCESSFORMATS="$OPTARG" ;;
 		t) STARTTRACKNUMBER="$OPTARG" ;;
 		T) STARTTRACKNUMBER="$OPTARG" ; STARTTRACKNUMBERTAG="y" ;;
+		u) CDDBPROTO=6 ;;
 		v) 
 		   echo "This is abcde v$VERSION."
 		   echo "Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]"
@@ -1905,25 +2667,70 @@ while getopts 1a:A:bc:C:d:Dhj:klLnNo:pr:Rs:S:t:T:vVxw:W: opt ; do
 		V) EXTRAVERBOSE="y" ;;
 		x) EJECTCD="y" ;;
 		w) COMMENT="$OPTARG" ;;
-		W) STARTTRACKNUMBER="${OPTARG}01" ; STARTTRACKNUMBERTAG="y" ; COMMENT="CD${OPTARG}" ;;
+		W) if echo $OPTARG | grep -q "[[:digit:]]" ; then 
+		     STARTTRACKNUMBER="${OPTARG}01" ; STARTTRACKNUMBERTAG="y" ; COMMENT="CD${OPTARG}"
+		   else
+		     log error "argument of -W must be integer"
+			 exit 1
+		   fi
+		   ;;
+		z) DEBUG=y ; CDROMREADERSYNTAX=debug ; EJECTCD="n" ;;
 		?) usage; exit ;;
 	esac
 done
 
 shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
 
-# Decide if we can continue. TO_REMOVE as soon as we find out about dagrab
-if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ] ; then 
+# If the user specified a flac file, then switch to special flac mode
+if echo $CDROM | grep -i -q '.flac$'; then
+	vecho "abcde: switching to flac CDROMREADERSYNTAX..."
+	CDROMREADERSYNTAX=flac
+	if [ "$EJECTCD" = "y" ];then
+		vecho "abcde: CDROM flac mode, deactivating EJECTCD..."
+		EJECTCD=n
+	fi
+fi
+
+# If the user provided a DISCID, disable eject
+if [ -n "$DISCID" ]; then EJECTCD=n ; fi
+
+# Check the available cd rippers in the system, from the ones we know.
+if [ "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" = "" ]; then
+	for DEFAULT_CDROMREADER in $DEFAULT_CDROMREADERS; do
+		if [ -x $( which $DEFAULT_CDROMREADER ) ]; then
+			CDROMREADERSYNTAX=$DEFAULT_CDROMREADER
+			break
+		fi
+	done
+	if [ "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" = "" ]; then
+		log error "no cdreader found in your PATH"
+		log error "hints: are all dependencies installed? has the \$PATH been modified?"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
+# Decide if we can continue.
+if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then 
+	# FIXME # remove check as soon as we find out about the other readers
 	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
-		dagrab|debug) echo "abcde error: ONETRACK reading is not suported with "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" yet"
-			      exit 1 ;;
+		flac) ;;
+		cdparanoia) ;;
+		cdda2wav) ;;
+		*) log error "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX does not support ONETRACK mode"
+		   exit 1 ;;
 	esac
-	if [ "$BATCH" = "y" ]; then
-		echo "abcde error: BATCH mode is not compatible with ONETRACK mode"
+	if [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ]; then
+		log warning "BATCHNORM mode is not compatible with ONETRACK mode. Disabling..."
+		BATCHNORM=n
+	fi
+	if [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ]; then
+		log warning "NOGAP mode is not compatible with ONETRACK mode. Disabling..."
+		NOGAP=n
 	fi
 	# It does not matter how many tracks we want. In ONETRACK mode we grab them all
+	# FIXME # allow ranges of tracks to be selected for onetrack ripping
 	if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
-		vecho "ONETRACK mode selected: grabbing all tracks..."
+		log warning "ONETRACK mode selected, grabbing all tracks..."
 	fi
 else
 	while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
@@ -1953,46 +2760,136 @@ DOENCODE=n
 DOPOSTPROCESS=n
 DOTAG=n
 DOMOVE=n
+DOREPLAYGAIN=n
 DOPLAYLIST=n
 DOCLEAN=n
 
 for ACTION in $(echo $ACTIONS | tr , \ )
 do
 	case $ACTION in
-	cddb) DOCDDB=y;;
-	read) DOREAD=y;;
-	normalize) DONORMALIZE=y; DOREAD=y;;
-#	preprocess) DOPREPROCESS=y; DOREAD=y;;
-	encode) DOENCODE=y; DOREAD=y;;
-#	postprocess) DOPREPROCESS=y; DOENCODE=y; DOREAD=y;;
-	tag) DOTAG=y; DOREAD=y; DOENCODE=y; DOCDDB=y;;
-	move) DOMOVE=y; DOTAG=y; DOREAD=y; DOENCODE=y; DOCDDB=y;;
-	playlist) DOCDDB=y; DOPLAYLIST=y;;
-	clean) DOCLEAN=y;;
+		cddb) DOCDDB=y;;
+		read) DOREAD=y;;
+		normalize) DONORMALIZE=y; DOREAD=y;;
+#		preprocess) DOPREPROCESS=y; DOREAD=y;;
+		encode) DOENCODE=y; DOREAD=y;;
+#		postprocess) DOPREPROCESS=y; DOENCODE=y; DOREAD=y;;
+		tag) DOTAG=y; DOREAD=y; DOENCODE=y; DOCDDB=y;;
+		move) DOMOVE=y; DOTAG=y; DOREAD=y; DOENCODE=y; DOCDDB=y;;
+		replaygain) DOCDDB=y; DOREAD=y; DOENCODE=y; DOTAG=y; DOMOVE=y; DOREPLAYGAIN=y;;
+		playlist) DOCDDB=y; DOPLAYLIST=y;;
+		clean) DOCLEAN=y;;
+	esac
+done
+
+if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ] && [ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ]; then
+	# FIXME # should we abort on error or just inform the user?
+	log warning "selected both normalize and replaygain actions"
+fi
+
+for SHOWCDDBFIELD in $(echo $SHOWCDDBFIELDS | tr , \ ); do
+	case $SHOWCDDBFIELD in
+		y*|Y*) SHOWCDDBYEAR="y";;
+		g*|G*) SHOWCDDBGENRE="y";;
+		*) ;;
 	esac
 done
 
 # Sanity checks:
 
 # At this point a CDROM has to be defined, so we check it exists.
-if [ "$CDROM" != "" ] ; then 
+if [ X"$CDROM" != "X" ] ; then 
 	if [ "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" = "cdda2wav" ] && [ "$NEEDCDROMID" = "y" ] ; then
 		if [ "$OSFLAVOUR" = "FBSD" ]; then
 			if ! echo "$CDROMID" | grep "^[0-9],[0-9],[0-9]$" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-				echo "abcde error: CDROMID not in the right format for $CDROMREADERSYNTAX"
-				echo "Use \"cdrecord -scanbus\" to obtain a adecuate ID an set CDROMID accordingly"
+				log error "CDROMID not in the right format for $CDROMREADERSYNTAX"
+				log error "Use \"cdrecord -scanbus\" to obtain a adecuate ID an set CDROMID accordingly"
 				exit 1
 			fi
 		fi
-	elif [ ! -e $CDROM ] ; then
-		echo "abcde error: CDROM device cannot be found." >&2
+	elif [ ! -e "$CDROM" -a X"$DOREAD" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "CDROM device cannot be found."
 		exit 1
 	fi
-else
-	echo "abcde error: CDROM has not been defined or cannot be found" >&2
+# avoid processing if we are not going to hit the CDROM.
+elif [ X"$DOREAD" = "Xy" ]; then
+	log error "CDROM has not been defined or cannot be found"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
+# USEPIPES pre-tests, before we get into more serious stuff
+# Not compatible with:
+# - multiple outputs
+# - normalize
+# - lowdisk algorithm
+# - anything else?
+if [ X"$USEPIPES" = "Xy" ]; then
+	if [ $(echo "$OUTPUTTYPE" | tr , \  | wc -w ) -gt 1 ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with multiple outputs"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ X"$DONORMALIZE" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with normalizer"
+		# FIXME # Do we need to exit or shall we just disable the mode?
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ X"$BATCHNORM" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with BATCHNORM encoding"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ X"$NOGAP" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with NOGAP encoding"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ X"$DOENCODE" = "Xn" ]; then
+		vecho warning "Disabling Unix pipes since we are not encoding!"
+		USEPIPES=n
+	fi
+	if [ X"$LOWDISK" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with lowdisk algorithm"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
+# LOWDISK pre-tests, before we get into more problematic stuff
+# Not compatible with anything that needs all the files in the hard disc:
+# - BATCHNORM
+# - NOGAP lame mode
+if [ X"$LOWDISK" = "Xy" ]; then
+	if [ X"$BATCHNORM" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with BATCHNORM encoding"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ X"$NOGAP" = "Xy" ]; then
+		log error "Unix pipes not compatible with NOGAP encoding"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
+# BATCHNORM pre-tests, before we get into serious problems
+# Not compatible with 
+if [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ] && [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "n" ]; then
+	vecho warning "Disabling BATCHNORM since we are not normalizing!"
+	BATCHNORM=n
+fi
+
+# Check the encoding format from the ones available in the system, if nothing has been configured in the system.
+if [ X"$OUTPUTTYPE" = "X" ]; then
+	for DEFAULT_OUTPUT in $( echo "$DEFAULT_OUTPUT_BINARIES" | tr , \ ); do
+		DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT="$(echo $DEFAULT_OUTPUT | cut -d ":" -f 1)"
+		DEFAULT_OUTPUT_BINARY="$(echo $DEFAULT_OUTPUT | cut -d ":" -f 2)"
+		if [ -x $(which $DEFAULT_OUTPUT_BINARY) ] ; then
+			OUTPUTTYPE=$DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT
+			vecho "No default output type defined. Autoselecting $OUTPUTTYPE..." >&2
+			break
+		fi
+	done
+	if [ X"$OUTPUTTYPE" = "X" ]; then
+		log error "no encoder found in the PATH"
+		log error "hints: are all dependencies installed? has the \$PATH been modified?"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
 # Decide which CDROM reader we're gonna use
 case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
 	cdparanoia|debug)
@@ -2011,6 +2908,10 @@ case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
 		CDROMREADER="$CDDAFS"
 		CDROMREADEROPTS="$CDDAFSOPTS"
 		;;
+	flac)
+		CDROMREADER="$FLAC"
+		CDROMREADEROPTS="$FLACOPTS"
+		;;
 esac
 
 # There's only one normalize...
@@ -2021,86 +2922,145 @@ case "$NORMALIZERSYNTAX" in
 		;;
 esac
 
-# If nothing has been specified, use oggenc for oggs and lame for mp3s and flac for flacs and speexenc for speex and mppenc for mpps
+# Allow -o OUTPUT(1):OPTIONS(1),...,OUTPUT(N):OPTIONS(N) mode of operation
+if echo "$OUTPUTTYPE" | grep ":" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+	for OUTPUT in "$(echo "$OUTPUTTYPE" | tr , \ )"; do
+		case "$OUTPUT" in
+			vorbis:*|ogg:*)	OGGENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+			mp3:*)	MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+			flac:*)	FLACENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+			spx:*)	SPEEXENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+			mpc:*)	MPPENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+			m4a:*)  AACENCODEROPTSCLI="$( echo $OUTPUT | cut -d: -f2- )" ;;
+		esac
+	done
+	for OUTPUT in "$(echo "$OUTPUTTYPE" | tr , \ )"; do
+		TEMPOUTPUT=$( echo "$OUTPUT" | cut -d: -f1 )
+		TEMPOUTPUTTYPE="${TEMPOUTPUTTYPE:+$TEMPOUTPUTTYPE,}$TEMPOUTPUT"
+	done
+	OUTPUTTYPE="$TEMPOUTPUTTYPE"
+fi
+
+# If nothing has been specified, use oggenc for oggs and lame for mp3s and flac
+# for flacs and speexenc for speex and mppenc for mpps and faac for m4as
 
 # Getting ready for multiple output changes
 for OUTPUT in $(echo $OUTPUTTYPE | tr , \ )
 do
 	case $OUTPUT in
-		ogg)  [ "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc
-		      [ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDCOMMENTER=y
-		      [ "$REPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] && NEEDVORBISGAIN=y
+		vorbis|ogg)
+			[ "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc
+			[ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDCOMMENTER=y
+			[ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] && NEEDVORBISGAIN=y
+			OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER=ogg
 			;;
-		mp3)  [ "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame
-		      [ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDTAGGER=y
+		mp3)
+			[ "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame
+			[ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDTAGGER=y
+			[ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] && NEEDMP3GAIN=y
+			;;
+		flac)
+			[ "$FLACENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac
+			[ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDMETAFLAC=y
+			[ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] && NEEDMETAFLAC=y
+			;;
+		spx)
+			[ "$SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=speexenc
+#			[ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] &&
+			;;
+		mpc)
+			[ "$MPPENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && MPPENCODERSYNTAX=mppenc
+			[ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ] && NEEDMPPGAIN=y
+			;;
+		m4a)
+			[ "$AACENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && AACENCODERSYNTAX=faac
+			;;
+		wav)
+			if [ "$KEEPWAVS" = "y" ]; then
+				vecho "Unsetting the KEEPWAVS option, since the resulting wav files were requested..."
+			fi
+			KEEPWAVS=move
+			;;
+		*)	log error "Invalid OUTPUTTYPE defined"
+			exit 1
 			;;
-		flac) [ "$FLACENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac
-		      [ "$DOTAG" = "y" ] && NEEDMETAFLAC=y
-		        ;;
-		spx) [ "$SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=speexenc ;;
-		mpc) [ "$MPPENCODERSYNTAX" = "default" ] && MPPENCODERSYNTAX=mppenc ;;
-		*) echo "abcde error: Invalid OUTPUTTYPE defined" >&2
-		   exit 1
-		   ;;
 	esac
 done
 
 # decide which encoder
 case "$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" in
 	lame)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$LAMEOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$LAMEOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$LAME"
 		;;
+	toolame)
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$TOOLAMEOPTS}"
+		MP3ENCODER="$TOOLAME"
+		;;
 	gogo)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$GOGOOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$GOGOOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$GOGO"
 		;;
 	bladeenc)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$BLADEENCOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$BLADEENCOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$BLADEENC"
 		;;
 	l3enc)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$L3ENCOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$L3ENCOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$L3ENC"
 		;;
 	xingmp3enc)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$XINGMP3ENCOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$XINGMP3ENCOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$XINGMP3ENC"
 		;;
 	mp3enc)
-		MP3ENCODEROPTS="$MP3ENCOPTS"
+		MP3ENCODEROPTS="${MP3ENCODEROPTSCLI:-$MP3ENCOPTS}"
 		MP3ENCODER="$MP3ENC"
 		;;
 esac
 case "$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" in
 	vorbize)
-		OGGENCODEROPTS="$VORBIZEOPTS"
+		OGGENCODEROPTS="${OGGENCODEROPTSCLI:-$VORBIZEOPTS}"
 		OGGENCODER="$VORBIZE"
 		;;
 	oggenc)
-		OGGENCODEROPTS="$OGGENCOPTS"
+		OGGENCODEROPTS="${OGGENCODEROPTSCLI:-$OGGENCOPTS}"
 		OGGENCODER="$OGGENC"
 		;;
 esac
 case "$FLACENCODERSYNTAX" in
 	flac)
-		FLACENCODEROPTS="$FLACOPTS"
-		FLACENCODER="$FLAC"
+		FLACENCODEROPTS="${FLACENCODEROPTSCLI:-$FLACOPTS}"
+		FLACENCODER="$FLAC"	
+		# FLAC streams can be encapsulated on a Ogg transport layer
+		if echo "$FLACENCODEROPTS" | egrep -q -- "(^| )--ogg($| )" ;then
+			log error "FLAC on an Ogg container is not yet supported"
+			log error "due to problem with adding comments to such files"
+			exit 1
+			FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER=ogg
+		else
+			FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER=flac
+		fi
 		;;
 esac
 case "$SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX" in
 	speexenc)
-		SPEEXENCODEROPTS="$SPEEXENCOPTS"
+		SPEEXENCODEROPTS="${SPEEXENCODEROPTSCLI:-$SPEEXENCOPTS}"
 		SPEEXENCODER="$SPEEXENC"
 		;;
 esac
 case "$MPPENCODERSYNTAX" in
 	mppenc)
-		MPPENCODEROPTS="$MPPENCOPTS"
+		MPPENCODEROPTS="${MPPENCODEROPTSCLI:-$MPPENCOPTS}"
 		MPPENCODER="$MPPENC"
 		;;
 esac
-
+case "$AACENCODERSYNTAX" in
+	faac)
+		AACENCODEROPTS="${AACENCODEROPTSCLI:-$AACENCOPTS}"
+		AACENCODER="$AACENC"
+		;;
+esac
 # and which tagger
 
 if [ "$ID3TAGV" = "1" ]; then
@@ -2111,6 +3071,36 @@ else
 	TAGGEROPTS="$ID3V2OPTS"
 fi
 
+# Specific for NOGAP is the use of lame. Another encoder fails...
+if [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ] && [ ! "$MP3ENCODER" = "lame" ]; then
+	log warning "the NOGAP option is specific of lame. Deactivating..."
+	NOGAP=n
+fi
+
+# Options for mkcue
+case "$CUEREADERSYNTAX" in
+	default|mkcue)
+		CUEREADEROPTS="${CDROM}"
+		CUEREADER="$MKCUE"
+		;;
+esac
+
+# which information retrieval tool are we using?
+case "$CDDBTOOL" in
+	cddb) ;;
+	musicbrainz) ;;
+esac
+
+# Check if both OGGEOUTPUTCONTAINER and FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER are the same, and differentiante them
+if [ X"$OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER" = "Xogg" ] && [ X"$FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER" = "Xogg" ]; then
+	log error "FLAC on an Ogg container is not yet supported"
+	log error "due to problem with adding comments to such files"
+	exit 1
+	OGGOUTPUTCONTAINER=ogg.ogg
+	FLACOUTPUTCONTAINER=flac.ogg
+	vecho warning "modified file endings due to conflicting transport layers in Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC"
+fi
+
 # Clean up nice options (either use '-n NICELEVEL or -NICELEVEL')
 
 if [ "$ENCNICE" ]; then
@@ -2124,18 +3114,83 @@ if [ "$DISTMP3NICE" ]; then
 fi
 
 # Don't check for stuff if it's not needed
-if [ "$REMOTEHOSTS" ]; then NEEDDISTMP3=y; fi
-[ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ] && NEEDNORMALIZER=y
-[ "$EJECTCD" = "y" ] && NEEDEJECT=y
-[ ! "$CDDBAVAIL" = "n" ] && [ "$DOCDDB" = "y" ] && NEEDHTTPGET=y
+if [ "$REMOTEHOSTS" ]; then 
+	NEEDDISTMP3=y
+fi
+if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ]; then
+	NEEDNORMALIZER=y
+fi
+if [ "$EJECTCD" = "y" ]; then
+	NEEDEJECT=y
+fi
+if [ ! "$CDDBAVAIL" = "n" ] && [ "$DOCDDB" = "y" ]; then
+	if [ "$CDDBMETHOD" = "cddb" ]; then
+		NEEDHTTPGET=y
+	elif [ "$CDDBMETHOD" = "musicbrainz" ]; then
+		:
+	fi
+fi
+if [ "$MAKECUEFILE" = "y" ]; then
+	NEEDCUEREADER=y
+fi
 
 if [ X"$CDSPEEDVALUE" != "X" ]; then
 	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
 		cdparanoia|debug) CDROMREADEROPTS="$CDPARANOIAOPTS -S $CDSPEEDVALUE" ;;
+		### FIXME ### translate "cue2discid" from python to bash
+		flac) NEEDMETAFLAC=y ; NEEDCUE2DISCID=y ;;
 		*) NEEDCDSPEED=y ;;
 	esac
 fi
 
+###USEPIPESSUPPORT###
+
+# Rippers with USEPIPE support
+# FIXME # Include here all the rippers we can figure out support pipes
+PIPERIPPER_cdparanoia="-"
+PIPERIPPER_debug="-"
+PIPERIPPER_flac="-c "
+
+# Encoders with USEPIPE support
+# FIXME # Include here all the encoders we can figure out support pipes
+PIPE_lame="-"
+PIPE_bladeenc="-"
+PIPE_oggenc="-"
+PIPE_flac="-"
+
+# Figure out if we can use pipes with the ripper/encoder combination
+# exit otherwise
+if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+	PIPERIPPERSVARCHECK="PIPERIPPER_${CDROMREADERSYNTAX}"
+	case "$OUTPUT" in
+		mp3)
+			PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK="PIPE_$MP3ENCODERSYNTAX" ;;
+		vorbis|ogg)
+			PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK="PIPE_$OGGENCODERSYNTAX" ;;
+		flac)
+			PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK="PIPE_$FLACENCODERSYNTAX" ;;
+		spx)
+			PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK="PIPE_$SPEEXENCODER" ;;
+		mpc)
+			PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK="PIPE_$MPPENCODER" ;;
+	esac
+	decho "PIPERIPPERSVARCHECK: $( eval echo "\$$PIPERIPPERSVARCHECK" )"
+	if [ "$( eval echo "\$$PIPERIPPERSVARCHECK" )" = "$" ] || \
+	   [ "$( eval echo "\$$PIPERIPPERSVARCHECK" )" = "" ] ; then
+		log error "no support for pipes with given ripper"
+		log error "read the USEPIPES file from the source tarball to get help."
+		log error "On a Debian system, it is under /usr/share/doc/abcde/USEPIPES.gz"
+		exit 1;
+	fi
+	decho "PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK: $( eval echo "\$$PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK" )"
+	if [ "$( eval echo "\$$PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK" )" = "$" ] || \
+	   [ "$( eval echo "\$$PIPEENCODERSVARCHECK" )" = "" ] ; then
+		log error "no support for pipes with given encoder"
+		log error "read the USEPIPES file from the source tarball to help"
+		log error "on a Debian system, read /usr/share/doc/abcde/USEPIPES.gz"
+		exit 1;
+	fi
+fi
 
 # Make sure a buncha things exist
 for X in $CDROMREADER $CDDISCID ${NEEDTAGGER+$TAGGER} $MP3ENCODER \
@@ -2144,15 +3199,17 @@ for X in $CDROMREADER $CDDISCID ${NEEDTAGGER+$TAGGER} $MP3ENCODER \
 	${NEEDCOMMENTER+$VORBISCOMMENT} ${NEEDMETAFLAC+$METAFLAC} \
 	${NEEDNORMALIZER+$NORMALIZER} ${NEEDEJECT+$EJECT} \
 	${NEEDDISKTOOL+disktool} ${NEEDCDSPEED+$CDSPEED} \
-	${NEEDVORBISGAIN+$VORBISGAIN}
+	${NEEDVORBISGAIN+$VORBISGAIN} ${NEEDMP3GAIN+$MP3GAIN} \
+	${NEEDMPPGAIN+$MPPGAIN} \
+	${NEEDCUEREADER+$CUEREADER} ${NEEDCUE2DISCID+$CUE2DISCID}
 do
 	# Cut off the command-line options we just added in
 	X=$(echo $X | cut -d' ' -f2)
 	if [ "$(which $X)" = "" ]; then
-		echo "abcde error: $X is not in your path." >&2
+		log error "$X is not in your path." >&2
 		exit 1
 	elif [ ! -x $(which $X) ]; then
-		echo "abcde error: $X is not executable." >&2
+		log error "$X is not executable." >&2
 		exit 1
 	fi
 done
@@ -2161,24 +3218,39 @@ CDROMREADER="$CDROMREADER $CDROMREADEROPTS"
 CDDBTOOL="$CDDBTOOL $CDDBTOOLOPTS"
 HTTPGET="$HTTPGET $HTTPGETOPTS"
 
+# And last but not least, check if we can diff between files
+if [ -x $(which $DIFF) ]; then :; else
+	vecho warning "Disabling diff since we cannot find it in the \$PATH..."
+	DIFF=""
+fi
+
 # Here it used to say:
 # One thousand lines in, we can start doing stuff with things
-# Well, right now we are at line 2157 ;)
+# Well, right now we are at line 2736 ;)
 
 # Export needed things so they can be read in this subshell
 export CDDBTOOL ABCDETEMPDIR TRACKQUEUE LOWDISK EJECTCD EJECT EJECTOPTS
 export CDROM CDDBDATA REMOTEHOSTS MAXPROCS HTTPGET MD5SUM
 
-# User-definable function to set some things. Use it for
-#  - closing the CD tray with eject -t
-#  - set the CD speed value with eject -x
-vecho -n "Executing customizable pre-read function... "
+if [ "$DOREAD" = "y" ]; then
+	# User-definable function to set some things. Use it for
+	#  - closing the CD tray with eject -t
+	#  - set the CD speed value with eject -x
+	vecho -n "Executing customizable pre-read function... "
 
-pre_read # Execute the user-defined pre-read funtion. Close the CD with it.
+	pre_read # Execute the user-defined pre-read funtion. Close the CD with it.
 
-vecho "done."
+	vecho "done."
+fi
 
-do_discid # Get ABCDETEMPDIR created and status file initialized
+case "$CDDBMETHOD" in
+	cddb)
+		do_discid # Get ABCDETEMPDIR created and status file initialized
+		;;
+	musicbrainz)
+		do_musicbrainz
+		;;
+esac
 
 if [ "$DOCDDB" = "y" ]; then
 	if [ $CDDBUSELOCAL = "y" ]; then
@@ -2188,61 +3260,48 @@ if [ "$DOCDDB" = "y" ]; then
 		:
 	else 
 		if [ ! "$CDDBLOCALSUCCESS" = "y" ] ; then
-			do_cddbstat
-			do_cddbquery
-			do_cddbread
+			case "$CDDBMETHOD" in
+				cddb)
+					do_cddbstat
+					do_cddbquery
+					do_cddbread
+					;;
+				musicbrainz)
+					do_musicbrainz
+					;;
+			esac
 		fi
 	fi
 	do_cddbedit
 
-	eval $($CDDBTOOL parse "$CDDBDATA")
+	eval "$($CDDBTOOL parse "$CDDBDATA")"
 fi
 
 # Before reading tracks, we set the speed of the device
 
 if [ X"$CDSPEEDVALUE" != "X" ]; then
 	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
-		cdparanoia|debug) : ;;
+		cdparanoia|debug) ;;
+		flac) ;;
 		*) do_cdspeed ;;
 	esac
 fi
 
-if [ "$STRIPDATATRACKS" = "y" ] && [ ! "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
-	case "$CDROMREADERSYNTAX" in
-		cdparanoia|debug) 
-			# cdparanoia can query the CD, so let's process the TRACKQUEUE list with the results.
-			if checkstatus cdparanoia-audio-tracks; then
-				CDTRACKQUEUE=$( cat $ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-audio-tracks )
-			else
-				## FIXME ##
-				vecho "Querying the CD to obtain a list of valid audio tracks..."
-				$CDROMREADER -Q > $ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-query 2>&1
-				# Obtain a list of valid audio tracks from the results of the query
-				CDTRACKQUEUE=$( cat $ABCDETEMPDIR/cdparanoia-query | egrep '^[[:space:]]+[[:digit:]]' | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d "." | tr '\n' ' ' )
-			fi
-			# Obtain the track padding value from the before-processing list and pad the CD list
-			TRACKNUMPADDING=$( echo $TRACKQUEUE | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d " \n" | wc -c )
-			for TRACK in $CDTRACKQUEUE ; do
-				TRACKNUM=$(printf %0.${TRACKNUMPADDING}d $(expr ${TRACK} + 0 ))
-				PADNEWTRACKQUEUE=$(echo $PADNEWTRACKQUEUE $TRACKNUM)
-			done
-			CDTRACKQUEUE=$PADNEWTRACKQUEUE
-			# Now, compare if the values in the list are valid tracks in the CD
-			for TRACK in $TRACKQUEUE; do
-				if echo $CDTRACKQUEUE | grep $TRACK >/dev/null ; then
-					NEWTRACKQUEUE="$NEWTRACKQUEUE $TRACK"
-				fi
-			done
-			TRACKQUEUE="$NEWTRACKQUEUE"
-		;;
-	esac
+# Define the first and last track, since we might need them later in several places
+FIRSTTRACK=$( get_first $TRACKQUEUE )
+LASTTRACK=$( get_last $TRACKQUEUE )
+
+if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" ] && [ X"$ERASEENCODEDSTATUS" = "Xy" ]; then
+	mv "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status.old"
+	grep -v ^encodetracklocation- < "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status.old" \
+		| grep -v ^encode-output > "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
 fi
 
 # Create playlist if needed (backgroundable) and start reading in tracks
 
 (
 
-if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then :; else
+if [ ! "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 	if [ "$DOPLAYLIST" = "y" ]; then
 		echo Creating playlist... >&2
 		do_playlist
@@ -2256,18 +3315,27 @@ if [ "$LOWDISK" = "y" ] || [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then 
-	FIRSTTRACK=$( echo $TRACKQUEUE | awk '{print $1}' )
 	TRACKS="$FIRSTTRACK"
-	for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE; do :;done
 	if checkstatus readtrack-$FIRSTTRACK; then :; else
-		do_cdread_one $UTRACKNUM $FIRSTTRACK
+		if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+			do_cdread onetrack $FIRSTTRACK $LASTTRACK | do_encode $FIRSTTRACK %local0% > /dev/null 2>&1
+		else
+			do_cdread onetrack $FIRSTTRACK $LASTTRACK
+		fi
 	fi
 else
 	for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
 	do
 		if [ "$DOREAD" = "y" ]; then
-			if checkstatus readtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else
-				do_cdread $UTRACKNUM
+			if [ "$USEPIPES" = "y" ]; then
+				if checkstatus readencodetrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else
+					# Read, pipe, shut up!
+					do_cdread $UTRACKNUM | do_encode $UTRACKNUM %local0% > /dev/null 2>&1
+				fi
+			else
+				if checkstatus readtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else
+					do_cdread $UTRACKNUM
+				fi
 				if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
 					# CD read failed - don't give the goahead to
 					# the encoder
@@ -2276,9 +3344,14 @@ else
 				fi
 			fi
 		fi
-		if [ "$BATCH" = "y" ]; then
+		if [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ] || [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ]; then
 		    :
 		else
+			# If we are not reading, set the encode output to loud already, so
+			# that we can see the output of the first track.
+			if [ "$MAXPROCS" = "1" ] && [ ! "$DOREAD" = "y" ]; then
+				echo "encode-output=loud" >> "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status"
+			fi
 			echo NEXTTRACK # Get the encoder machine churning again
 			if [ "$DOREAD" = "y" ]; then
 				if [ "$LOWDISK" = "y" ] && [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
@@ -2302,10 +3375,13 @@ if [ "$MAXPROCS" = "1" ]; then
 fi
 
 # All tracks read, start encoding.
-if [ "$BATCH" = "y" ] || [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
+if [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ] || [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ] || [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ]; then
 	echo NEXTTRACK
 fi
 
+# Execute the user-defined post_read funtion before ejecting CD
+post_read
+
 # We are now finished with the cdrom - it can be safely ejected. Note that
 # abcde will not have completed yet.
 if [ "$EJECTCD" = "y" ] && [ -x $(which $EJECT) ]; then
@@ -2356,27 +3432,35 @@ fi
 #
 #) | (
 
-# In batch mode, we want all tracks to be read first.
-if [ "$BATCH" = "y" ]; then
+# In BATCHNORM and/or NOGAP modes, we want all tracks to be read first.
+#BACK
+if [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ] || [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ]; then
 	read GOAHEAD # For blocking - will contain either "NO" or "NEXTTRACK"
 	if [ "$GOAHEAD" = "NO" ]; then break; fi
 	for LASTTRACK in $TRACKQUEUE; do :; done
 	if checkstatus readtrack-$LASTTRACK; then
-		if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ]; then
+		if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ] && [ "$BATCHNORM" = "y" ]; then
 			if checkstatus normalizetrack-$LASTTRACK; then :; else do_batch_normalize; fi
-			if checkerrors batch-normalize; then exit; fi
+			if checkerrors batch-normalize; then exit 1; fi
 		fi
-		if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
-			if checkstatus encodetrack-$LASTTRACK; then :; else do_batch_encode; fi
-			if checkerrors batch-encode; then exit; fi
+		if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ] && [ "$NOGAP" = "y" ]; then
+			if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ]; then
+				for UTRACKNUM in $TRACKQUEUE
+				do
+					if checkstatus readtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then
+						if checkstatus normalizetrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else do_normalize $UTRACKNUM; fi
+					fi
+				done
+			fi
+			if checkstatus encodetrack-$LASTTRACK; then :; else do_nogap_encode; fi
+			if checkerrors nogap-encode; then exit 1; fi
 		fi
 	fi
 fi
 
 # If we are using ONETRACK, we can proceed with the normal encoding using just the $FIRSTTRACK as TRACKQUEUE
 if [ "$ONETRACK" = "y" ] ; then
-	FIRSTTRACK=$( echo $TRACKQUEUE | awk '{print $1}')
-	TRACKQUEUE=$FIRSTTRACK
+	TRACKQUEUE="$FIRSTTRACK"
 	TRACKS="$FIRSTTRACK"
 fi
 
@@ -2397,7 +3481,7 @@ do
 	read GOAHEAD # For blocking - will contain either "NO" or "NEXTTRACK"
 	if [ "$GOAHEAD" = "NO" ]; then break; fi
 	# find out where this track is to be encoded
-	if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
+	if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" -a "$USEPIPES" != "y" ]; then
 		# Make sure we have a place to encode this, if not, exit stage right
 		if [ -z "$ENCODELOCATIONS" ]; then
 			continue
@@ -2443,10 +3527,9 @@ do
 			TRACKNUM="$FIRSTTRACK"
 			splitvarious
 		else
-#			TRACKNUM=$(printf %0.${TRACKNUMPADDING}d $(expr ${UTRACKNUM} + 0))
 			TRACKNUM=$UTRACKNUM
-		        CDDBTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM - 1)
-			TRACKNAME=$(grep ^TTITLE$CDDBTRACKNUM= "$CDDBDATA" | cut -f2 -d= | tr -d \[:cntrl:\] | sed 's/\ \+$//')
+			CDDBTRACKNUM=$(expr $UTRACKNUM - 1)
+			do_getcddbinfo TRACKNAME
 			splitvarious
 		fi
 	fi
@@ -2459,7 +3542,7 @@ do
 			if checkstatus normalizetrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else do_normalize $UTRACKNUM; fi
 		fi
 	fi
-	if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
+	if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" -a "$USEPIPES" != "y" ]; then
 		if checkstatus readtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then
 			#if checkstatus encodetrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else do_encode $UTRACKNUM $LOCATION; fi
 			if [ "$DONORMALIZE" = "y" ]; then
@@ -2475,6 +3558,12 @@ do
 		if checkstatus encodetrack-$UTRACKNUM; then
 			if checkstatus tagtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then :; else do_tag $UTRACKNUM; fi
 		fi
+		# Lets tag the cue file
+		if checkstatus cleancuefile >/dev/null; then :; else
+			if checkstatus cuefile >/dev/null ; then 
+				do_cleancue
+			fi
+		fi
 	fi
 	if [ "$DOMOVE" = "y" ]; then
 		if checkstatus tagtrack-$UTRACKNUM; then
@@ -2483,9 +3572,12 @@ do
 	fi
 	) &
 done
+
+
 # Go through it again and make sure there's no distmp3 stragglers, otherwise
 # we'll delete the files they're working on
-if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
+## FIXME ## Check also for files which are encoded using PIPEs.
+if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" -a "$USEPIPES" != "y" ]; then
 	PROCEED=
 	until [ $PROCEED ]
 	do
@@ -2508,9 +3600,13 @@ if [ "$DOENCODE" = "y" ]; then
 fi
 # If the above didn't catch the stragglers, this will
 wait
+if [ "$DOREPLAYGAIN" = "y" ]; then
+	do_replaygain
+fi
+
 # Check to see if run_command logged any errors
 if [ -f "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors" ]; then
-	echo "The following commands failed to run:"
+	log error "The following commands failed to run:"
 	cat "$ABCDETEMPDIR/errors"
 	# Don't clean up
 	DOCLEAN=n
@@ -2519,6 +3615,18 @@ if [ "$KEEPWAVS" = "y" ];then
 	# Don't clean up
 	DOCLEAN=n
 fi
+# Check if we have moved all the formats we had previously encoded, if we are not using the FORCE.
+if [ "$DOCLEAN" = "y" ] && [ ! "$FORCE" = "y" ]; then
+	ENCODED_FORMATS=$(egrep "^encodetrack-(.{3,6})-(.{1,2})$" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" | cut -d"-" -f2 | sort -u | tr '\n' '|')
+	MOVED_FORMATS=$(egrep "^movetrack-output-(.{3,6})$" "$ABCDETEMPDIR/status" | cut -d"-" -f3 | sort -u | tr '\n' '|')
+	if [ "$ENCODED_FORMATS" != "$MOVED_FORMATS" ]; then
+		log warning "The encoded formats does not match with the moved ones"
+		log warning "Formats encoded: $( echo $ENCODED_FORMATS | tr "|" " " )"
+		log warning "Formats moved: $( echo $MOVED_FORMATS | tr "|" " " )"
+		log warning "Use \"abcde -a clean -f -C $DISCID\" to force the removal of the remaining data."
+		DOCLEAN=n
+	fi
+fi
 if [ "$DOCLEAN" = "y" ]; then
 	# Wipe all the evidence
 	# Gimme gimme gimme some more time!
@@ -2530,3 +3638,6 @@ else
 fi
 )
 exit 0
+
+# b:is_bash
+# vim:tabstop=4