X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/clinton/abcde.git/blobdiff_plain/fd34b28b11bcc1d0bdc45956b86d7195dff66be6..43559afbf6561a453bfe99a71673c24159ed6c87:/FAQ diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 660be22..a0a1baf 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Q. How can I install abcde on my system? A. To get abcde you can use a pre-packaged version, available for Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others. In case you want to install your own release, you need to download the - sources and install the complementary programs (abcde is just a frontend + source and install the complementary programs (abcde is just a frontend and its functionality is provided by other programs). abcde needs cd-discid. Grab it from: @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ A. When it is ready. I keep on having new ideas and adding them to the trunk 2. EXECUTION ========= +Q. I want to force abcde 2.x to behave more like 1.x. How do I do it? +A. Put these options in your abcde.conf: + + INTERACTIVE=n + OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 + ID3TAGV=1 + Q. Low on disk space? A. abcde has different algorithms to schedule ripping and encoding - to optimize for disk conservation, use -l. You can also define @@ -163,6 +170,11 @@ Q. How can I use some other CDDB information provider? A. abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf. +Q. After requesting CDDB data, I received several answers which seem to be + quite alike. Can I find out the difference between some of them? +A. Yes. When asked which one you want to select, use "X,Y" where X and Y are + the numbers of the selections you want to find the difference between. + 3. FORMATS =======