3 abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, AAC,
4 WavPack, Monkey's Audio (ape), MPP/MP+(Musepack), True Audio (tta), MP2 format
5 and/or AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format).
10 Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then
11 tagging or commenting it, is very involved.
13 is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into
14 a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3), Free Lossless
15 Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A (AAC) wv (WavPack),
16 Monkey's Audio (ape), Opus, True Audio (tta), MPEG Audio Layer II (MP2)
17 or AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) format(s).
18 With one command, it will:
21 Do a CDDB or Musicbrainz query over the Internet to look up your CD or
22 use a locally stored CDDB entry, or read CD-TEXT from your CD if it's available
25 Download the album art appropriate for your music tracks with many
26 user configurable options for download and post download alterations
27 including automated embedding of the album art for some containers
30 Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
33 Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
36 Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A, wv (WavPack),
37 Monkey's Audio (ape), Opus format(s), True Audio (tta), MP2 or AIFF
38 (Audio Interchange File Format) all in one CD read
41 Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
44 Give an intelligible filename
47 Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
50 Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
57 can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded
58 cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be
59 treated as if it was the original CD. In a way,
61 can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
65 Encode the whole CD in a single file. The resulting file uses the CD title
66 for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file with an embedded cuesheet,
67 the file can be used as a source for creating other formats. Use "\-1 \-o
68 flac \-a default,cue" for obtaining such a file.
71 Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one or more of: cddb, cue,
72 read, getalbumart, embedalbumart, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain,
73 playlist, clean. Normalize and encode imply read. Tag implies cddb, read,
74 encode. Move implies cddb, read, encode, tag. Replaygain implies cddb, read,
75 encode, tag and move. Playlist implies cddb. embedalbumart implies getalbumart.
76 The default is to do all actions except cue, normalize, replaygain, getalbumart,
77 embedalbumart and playlist.
80 Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration variable.
83 Enable automatic embedding of album art with certain containers. As of
84 abcde 2.8.2 supported containers are mp3 (using eyeD3), flac (using
85 metaflac), m4a (using AtomicParsley), WavPack aka wv (using wvtag) and
86 experimental support for ogg (using vorbiscomment). This command line
87 option also calls the getalbumart function. Further details of album art
88 embedding using the embedalbumart function can be found in the abcde FAQ
89 document packaged with abcde.
92 Specifies an additional configuration file to parse. Configuration options
93 in this file override those in \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR or \fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR.
96 Allows you to resume a session for
98 when you no longer have the CD available (\fBabcde\fR will automatically resume if
99 you still have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished at
100 least the "read" action during the previous session.
102 .B \-d [devicename | filename]
103 CD\-ROM block device that contains audio tracks to be read. Alternatively, a
104 single-track flac file with embedded cuesheet.
107 Capture debugging information (you'll want to redirect this \- try 'abcde \-D
111 Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal status file, to enable
112 other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
115 Force the removal of the temporary ABCDETEMPDIR directory, even when we have
116 not finished. For example, one can read and encode several formats, including
117 \'.ogg\', and later on execute a \'move\' action with only one of the given
118 formats. On a normal situation it would erase the rest of those encoded
119 formats. In this case, \fBabcde\fR will refuse to execute such command, except if \-f
123 Enable lame's \-\-nogap option. See the NOGAP variable. WARNING: lame's
124 \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is required for mp3 players to
125 correctly display track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
128 Download album art using the getalbumart function. This is best done with
129 CDDBMETHOD including musicbrainz and requires the installation of glyrc.
130 ImageMagick is an optional but highly recommended package. Further details
131 of getalbumart can be found in the abcde FAQ document packaged with abcde.
134 Get help information.
137 Start [number] encoder processes at once. Useful for SMP systems. Overrides
138 the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set it to "0" when using \fBdistmp3\fR to avoid
139 local encoding processes.
142 Keep the wav files after encoding.
145 Use the low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration variable.
148 Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
151 Create DOS-style playlists, modifying the resulting one by adding CRLF line
152 endings. Some hardware players insist on having those to work.
155 Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit the template to
156 provide song names, artist(s), ...
159 Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go ahead.
161 .B \-o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
162 Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac", "spx", "mpc", "m4a",
163 "wav", "wv", "ape", "opus", "mka" or "aiff". Specify a comma-delimited list of output types
164 to obtain all specified types. See the OUTPUTTYPE configuration variable. One can
165 pass options to the encoder for a specific filetype on the command line separating
166 them with a colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
169 Pads track numbers with 0\'s.
172 Use Unix PIPES to read and encode in one step (USEPIPES). This disables multiple
173 encodings, since the WAV audio file is never stored in the disc. For more detail
174 on this option see the FAQ document in the source tarball.
177 Remote encode on this comma-delimited list of machines using \fBdistmp3\fR. See
178 the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
181 List, separated by commas, the fields to be shown in the CDDB parsed entries.
182 Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
185 Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set properly
186 and both the program and device must support the capability.
189 Start the numbering of the tracks at a given number. It only affects the
190 filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering remains the same.
193 Same as \-t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep in mind that
194 the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS so it is changed to simply $T.
197 Set CDDBPROTO to version 5, so that we retrieve ISO-8859-15 encoded CDDB
198 information, and we tag and add comments with Latin1 encoding.
201 Show the version and exit
204 Be more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might give the
205 sensation nothing is happening. Add this more than once to make things
209 Eject the CD when all tracks have been read. See the EJECTCD configuration
213 Use an alternative "cue2discid" implementation. The name of the binary must be
214 exactly that. \fBabcde\fR comes with an implementation in python under the examples
215 directory. The special keyword "builtin" forces the usage of the internal
216 (default) implementation in shell script.
219 Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD. If you wish to use
220 parentheses, these will need to be escaped. i.e. you have to write
221 "\\(" instead of "(".
224 Concatenate CD\'s. It uses the number provided to define a comment "CD #" and
225 to modify the numbering of the tracks, starting with "#01". For Ogg/Vorbis and
226 FLAC files, it also defines a DISCNUMBER tag.
229 DEBUG mode: it will rip, using \fBcdparanoia\fR, the very first second of each track
230 and proceed with the actions requested very quickly, also providing some
231 "hidden" information about what happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL
232 ERASE ANY EXISTING RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
235 A list of tracks you want \fBabcde\fR to process. If this isn't specified, \fBabcde\fR
236 will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of track numbers -
237 "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
239 Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file named after the track in a
240 subdirectory named after the artist under the current directory. This can be
241 modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT variables in your
242 \fIabcde.conf\fR. Each file is given an extension identifying its compression
243 format, 'vorbis' for '.ogg', '.mp3', '.flac', '.spx', '.mpc', '.wav', '.wv',
244 \(aq.ape', '.opus', '.mka' or 'aiff'.
246 \fBabcde\fR sources two configuration files on startup - \fI/etc/abcde.conf\fR and
247 \fI$HOME/.abcde.conf\fR, in that order.
249 The configuration options stated in those files can be overridden by providing
250 the appropriate flags at runtime.
252 The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
255 Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted. If other
256 variables within "value" are to be expanded upon reading the configuration
257 file, then double quotes should be used. If they are only supposed to be
258 expanded upon use (for example OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
260 All shell escaping/quoting rules apply.
262 Here is a list of options \fBabcde\fR recognizes:
265 Specifies the methods we want to use to retrieve the track
266 information. Three values are recognized: "cddb", "musicbrainz" and
267 "cdtext". List all the methods desired in a comma delimited list and
268 \fBabcde\fR will attempt them all, returning a list of all search
269 results. The "cddb" value needs the CDDBURL and HELLOINFO variables
270 described below. The "musicbrainz" value uses the Perl helper script
271 \fBabcde-musicbrainz-tool\fR to establish a conversation with the
272 Musicbrainz server for information retrieval. "cdtext" needs "icedax"
273 or "cdda2wav" to be installed.
276 Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
279 Specifies the protocol version used for the CDDB retrieval of results. Version
280 6 retrieves CDDB entries in UTF-8 format.
283 Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server. The CDDB
284 protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname each time you
285 connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
288 Specifies a directory where we store a local CDDB repository. The entries must
289 be standard CDDB entries, with the filename being the DISCID value. Other
290 CD playing and ripping programs (like Grip) store the entries under \fI~/.cddb\fR
291 and we can make use of those entries.
293 .B CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
294 Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has to be searched recursively trying to find a
295 match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL
296 is selected, it will be copied to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if
297 CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified" or "new". The default "y" is needed for the local
301 Defines when a CDDB entry should be stored in the defined CDDBLOCALDIR. The
302 possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry which has been received from the
303 net (overwriting any possible local CDDB entry); "new" for a CDDB entry which
304 was received from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
305 CDDB entry found in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory; "modified" for a
306 CDDB entry found in the local repository but which has been modified by the
307 user; and "always" which forces the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of
308 the CDDBLOCALDIR no matter where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
309 This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root of the local
310 repository (if any). STILL NOT WORKING!!
313 Store local copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR directory.
316 Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be overridden using the
317 "\-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an entry is found, we always give
318 the choice of retrieving a CDDB entry from the internet.
321 Coma-separated list of fields we want to parse during the CDDB parsing.
322 Defaults to "year,genre".
325 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Ogg/Vorbis encoder. Valid options
326 are \'oggenc\' (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and \'vorbize\'.
327 This affects the default location of the binary,
328 the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options
332 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid options are
333 \'lame\' (default for MP3), \'gogo\', \'bladeenc\', \'l3enc\' and \'mp3enc\'.
334 Affects the same way as explained above for Ogg/Vorbis.
337 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
338 \'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
341 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2) encoder.
342 At this point both \'twolame\' and \'ffmpeg\' are available for MP2 encoding.
344 .B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
345 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
346 \'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
349 Specifies the style of encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack) encoder. At this
350 point we only have \'mpcenc\' available, from musepack.net.
353 Specifies the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. We support \'fdkaac\'
354 as \'default\' as well as FFmpeg or avconv, neroAacEnc, qaac and fhgaacenc. If qaac,
355 refalac or FFmpeg / avconv are used it is also possible to generate Apple Lossless
356 Audio Codec (alac) files. Note that qaac, refalac and fhgaacenc are Windows applications
357 which require Wine to be installed.
360 Specifies the style of encoder to use for True Audio (tts) encoding. We
361 support \'tta\' as default but the older \'ttaenc\' can be used as well.
364 Specifies the style of encoder to use for WavPack. We support \'wavpack\'
365 as \'default\' but \'ffmpeg'\ is the other option (Note that this is for
366 FFmpeg only as avconv does not have a native WavPack encoder).
369 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Monkey's Audio (ape). We support \'mac\',
370 Monkey's Audio Console, as \'default\'.
373 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Opus encoder. At this point only
374 \'opusenc\' is available for Opus encoding.
377 Specifies the style of encoder to use for the Matroska or mka container. At this
378 point only \'ffmpeg\' is available to utilise the mka container. Safe audio codecs
379 for mka include Vorbis, MP2, MP3, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, WMAv1, WMAv2, AC3, eAC3 and Opus.
380 See the FAQ document for more information.
383 Specifies the style of encoder to use for Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF).
384 At this point only \'ffmpeg\' is available to utilise the AIFF container.
387 Specifies the style of normalizer to use. Valid options are \'default\'
388 and \'normalize'\ (and both run \'normalize-audio\'), since we only support it,
392 Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use. Valid options are \'cdparanoia\',
393 \'libcdio'\, \'debug\' and \'flac\'. It is used for querying the CDROM and
394 obtain a list of valid tracks and DATA tracks. The special \'flac\' case is u
395 sed to "rip" CD tracks from a single-track flac file.
398 Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read the CD CUE sheet. Right now
399 we only support \'mkcue\', but in the future other readers might be used.
402 It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from your CD,
403 set it to "y". You can use the "\-k" switch in the command line. The default
404 behaviour with KEEPWAVS set is to keep the temporary directory and the wav
405 files even you have requested the "clean" action.
408 If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file numbers to complete a two-number
409 holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
412 Set to "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user intervention.
415 Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different CPU-hungry
416 processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE) and distributed encoder
417 with \fBdistmp3\fR (DISTMP3NICE).
420 The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
421 respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
422 VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPCENC, WAVEPACK, APENC, OPUSENC, ID3, EYED3,
423 METAFLAC, CDPARANOIA, CD_PARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, PIRD, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL,
424 EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN,
425 MPCGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC, CUE2DISCID (see option "\-X"), DIFF, HTTPGET, GLYRC,
426 IDENTIFY, DISPLAYCMD, CONVERT, QAAC, WINE, FHGAACENC, ATOMICPARSLEY, FFMPEG,
427 TWOLAME, MID3V2, TTA and TTAENC.
429 .B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
430 If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs \fBabcde\fR uses,
431 set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS, AIFFENCOPTS,
432 BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, WAVEPACKENCOPTS, APENCOPTS,
433 OGGENCOPTS, FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPCENCOPTS, FAACENCOPTS, NEROAACENCOPTS, FDKAACENCOPTS,
434 OPUSENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, EYED3OPTS, MP3GAINOPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, PIRDOPTS,
435 CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,
436 VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS, DIFFOPTS, FLACGAINOPTS, VORBISGAINOPTS, HTTPGETOPTS,
437 GLYRCOPTS, IDENTIFYOPTS, CONVERTOPTS, DISPLAYCMDOPTS, QAACENCOPTS, FHGAACENCOPTS,
438 ATOMICPARSLEYOPTS, FFMPEGENCOPTS, DAGRABOPTS, TWOLAMENCOPTS and TTAENCOPTS.
441 Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
442 the reading program and the system permits. The steps are defined as 150kB/s
446 The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
449 If set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for audio
450 extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but it may fail. The special
451 \'flac\' option is defined to extract tracks from a single-track flac file.
453 .B CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
454 Defined as "d" when using \fBcdparanoia\fR with an IDE bus and as "g" when using
455 \fBcdparanoia\fR with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
458 Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
461 Specifies the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde may use up
462 to 700MB of temporary space for each session (although it is rare to use
463 over 100MB for a machine that can encode music as fast as it can read it).
466 Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
467 encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
468 (Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
469 Codec), "mp2" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack),
470 "m4a" (AAC or ALAC),"wv" (WavPack"), "wav" (Microsoft Waveform), "opus"
471 (Opus Interactive Audio Codec), "tta" (True Audio), "mka" (Matroska) or
472 "aiff" (Audio Interchange File Format). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode
473 the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. For example:
475 OUTPUTTYPE=vorbis,flac
477 For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, \fBabcde\fR expands a different process for encoding,
478 tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
479 different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
480 be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a', mp2, 'wv', 'ape', 'tta', 'wav',
481 'mka' and/or 'aiff' depending on the OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
483 OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
486 Specifies the format for completed Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+
487 (Musepack) or M4A filenames. Variables are included using standard shell
488 syntax. Allowed variables are GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE,
489 TRACKNUM, and YEAR. Default is \'${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}\'.
490 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable. TRACKNUM is automatically
491 zero-padded, when the number of encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower,
492 you can force with '\-p' in the command line.
495 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default is
496 \(aqVarious-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
498 .B ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
499 Just like OUTPUTFORMAT but for single-track rips (see option "\-1"). The default
500 is '${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
502 .B VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
503 Just like ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs. The default
504 is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
507 Defines how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
508 on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per CPU at once for maximum
509 efficiency, although more doesn't hurt very much. Set it "0" when using
510 mp3dist to avoid getting encoding processes in the local host.
513 If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately after
514 reading them. This is substantially slower than normal operation but
515 requires several hundred MB less space to complete the encoding of an
516 entire CD. Use only if your system is low on space and cannot encode as
517 quickly as it can read.
519 Note that this option may also help when reading
520 a CD with errors. This is because on a scratchy disk reading is quite timing
521 sensitive and this option reduces the background load on the system which
522 allows the ripping program more precise control.
525 If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
526 volume differences between tracks of an album. Also enables nogap encoding
527 when using the \'lame\' encoder.
530 Activate the lame's \-\-nogap option, that allows files found in CDs with no
531 silence between songs (such as live concerts) to be encoded without noticeable
532 gaps. WARNING: lame's \-\-nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag. This tag is
533 required for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when playing
534 variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
537 Specifies the format for completed playlist filenames. Works like the
538 OUTPUTFORMAT configuration variable. Default is
539 \'${ARTISTFILE}_\-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u\'.
540 Make sure to use single quotes around this variable.
542 .B PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
543 Specifies a prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for http
547 If set, the resulting playlist will have CR-LF line endings, needed by some
548 hardware-based players.
551 Specifies a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of each
552 finished track. Can be up to 28 characters long. Supports the same
553 syntax as OUTPUTFORMAT. Does not currently support ID3v2.
556 Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to use for remote encoding using
557 \fBdistmp3\fR. Equivalent to \-r.
560 mungefilename() is an \fBabcde\fR shell function that can be overridden via
561 \fIabcde.conf\fR. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
562 stdout. It defaults to deleting any preceding dots to filename, replacing spaces
563 with an underscore and eating characters which variously Windows and Linux do
566 If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
567 slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
568 the control character munging (NULs can't be in a filename either, and
569 newlines and such in filenames are typically not desirable).
571 New to abcde 2.7.3 are the user definable functions mungetrackname, mungeartistname
572 and mungealbumname which default to mungefilename. These permit finer-grained
573 control of track name, artist name and album name for the ultra-fastidious.
576 mungegenre () is a shell function used to modify the $GENRE variable. As
577 a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs the resulting value
578 to stdout converting all UPPERCASE characters to lowercase.
581 pre_read () is a shell function which is executed before the CDROM is read
582 for the first time, during \fBabcde\fR execution. It can be used to close the CDROM
583 tray, to set its speed (via "setcd" or via "eject", if available) and other
584 preparation actions. The default function is empty.
587 post_read () is a shell function which is executed after the CDROM is read
588 (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It can be used to read a TOC
589 from the CDROM, or to try to read the DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).
590 The default function is empty.
593 post_encode () is a shell function which is executed after the encoding process.
594 It can be used to move completed files to another location, run any sort of testing
595 on the completed files or embed album art if the built in embedding provided by
596 abcde's embedalbumart function is not to your taste.
597 The default function is empty.
600 If set to "y", \fBabcde\fR will call \fBeject\fR(1) to eject the cdrom from the drive
601 after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when CDROM is set to a flac
605 If set to "1", some operations which are usually now shown to the end user
606 are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for initial debug and if your
607 network/CDDB server is slow. Set to "2" or more for even more verbose
610 Possible ways one can call \fBabcde\fR:
613 Will work in most systems
615 .B abcde \-d /dev/cdrom2
616 If the CDROM you are reading from is not the standard \fI/dev/cdrom\fR (in GNU/Linux systems)
618 .B abcde \-o vorbis,flac
619 Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
621 .B abcde \-o vorbis:"-b 192"
622 Will pass "\-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having to modify the
625 .B abcde \-o mp3,flac,m4a,wv,ogg -B
626 abcde will create mp3, flac, m4a, wv and ogg files and also select
627 suitable album art, download and embed the album art into all 5 sets of tracks.
630 For double+ CD settings: will create the 1st CD starting with the track number
631 101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
634 .B abcde \-d singletrack.flac -o vorbis:"-q 6"
635 Will extract the files contained in singletrack FLAC file using the embedded
636 cuesheet and then encode the output files to Ogg/Vorbis with a quality setting of 6.
638 \fBabcde\fR requires the following backend tools to work:
641 An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A encoder or Opus encoder
642 (oggenc, vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc, flac, speexenc, mpcenc,
643 fdkaac, neroAacEnc, faac, wavpack, opusenc).
646 An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, icedax, cdda2wav, libcdio (cd-paranoia),
647 pird, dagrab). To read CD-TEXT information, icedax or cdda2wav will be needed.
650 cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
653 An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS X,
654 among others). Alternatively, abcde-musicbrainz-tool (which depends on
655 Perl and some Musicbrainz libraries) can be used to retrieve CDDB
656 information about the CD.
659 (for MP3s) id3 or eyeD3, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
662 For Monkey's Audio (ape) tagging Robert Muth's 'apetag' is required.
665 To retrieve album art a glyrc package is required and optionally the
666 ImageMagick package should be installed.
669 (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
672 (optional) normalize-audio, a WAV file volume normalizer.
675 (optional) a replaygain file volume modifier (vorbisgain, metaflac, mp3gain, mpcgain, wvgain),
678 (optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
688 .BR normalize-audio (1),
714 Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
715 Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
716 Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>,
717 Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>,
718 Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> and contributions from many others.