1 # System defaults for abcde version 2.2.x
2 # Nothing in this file is uncommented by default.
4 # If you wish to override these system-wide settings, create your own
5 # .abcde.conf file in your home directory.
8 # Choose whether you want to use CDDB or Musicbrainz. Default is CDDB
11 # If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line.
12 # If you just wanted to use a proxy server, just set your http_proxy
13 # environment variable - wget will use it correctly.
14 #CDDBURL="http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"
16 # The CDDB protocol level.
17 # Right now 5 is latin1 output and 6 is UTF8 encoding.
20 # The CDDB protocol requires hello information, including a valid username
21 # and hostname. If you feel paranoid about giving away such info, edit this
22 # line - the format is username@hostname.
23 #HELLOINFO="`whoami`@`hostname`"
25 # This controls the email address CDDB changes are submitted to.
26 #CDDBSUBMIT=freedb-submit@freedb.org
28 # The following options control whether or not fetched CDDB entries
29 # are cached locally in $CDDBLOCALDIR
31 #CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
32 #CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="n"
34 # If NOSUBMIT is set to y, then abcde will never prompt asking if you
35 # wish to submit your edited cddb file.
38 # If NOCDDBQUERY is set to y, then abcde will never even try to access
39 # the CDDB server; running abcde will automatically drop you into a
40 # blank cddb file to edit at your leisure. This is the same as the
41 # -n option. NOCDDBQUERY=y implies NOSUBMIT=y.
44 # Select here if you want to use the locally stored CDDB entries.
45 # This is useful if you do a lot of editing to those CDDB entries.
46 # Also, other tools like Grip store CDDB entries under $HOME/.cddb,
47 # so they can be reused when ripping CDs.
50 # List, separated with a comma, the fields we want the parsing function to
51 # output. Defaults to YEAR and GENRE, for a complete list of fields provided by
53 # The fields are not case sensitive. Actually, "y,g" will work as fine as "Y,G"
55 #SHOWCDDBFIELDS=year,genre
57 # Specify the style of encoder to use here -
58 # oggenc, vorbize - for OGGENCODERSYNTAX
59 # lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3enc - for MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
60 # flac - the only supported for FLACENCODERSYNTAX at the moment
61 # speexenc - the only encoder for SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
62 # mpcenc - encoder for MPCENCODERSYNTAX
63 # faac, neroAacEnc - for AACENCODER
64 # opusenc - for OPUSENCODER
65 # default is a valid option for oggenc, lame, flac, speexenc, mpcenc, faac and opus.
66 # Currently this affects the default location of the binary, the variable
67 # to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options are
69 #MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=default
70 #OGGENCODERSYNTAX=default
71 #FLACENCODERSYNTAX=default
72 #SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=default
73 #MPCENCODERSYNTAX=default
74 #AACENCODERSYNTAX=default
75 #OPUSENCODERSYNTAX=default
77 # Specify the syntax of the normalize binary here - so far only 'normalize'
79 #NORMALIZERSYNTAX=default
81 # CD reader program to use - currently recognized options are 'cdparanoia',
82 # 'icedax', 'cdda2wav', 'dagrab', 'cddafs' (Mac OS X only) and 'flac'.
83 #CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
85 # CUE reader syntax for the CUE reader program to use.
86 # abcde supports 2 CUE modes: 'mkcue' and 'abcde.mkcue' so you can set the
87 # MKCUE variable accordingly. The 'abcde.mkcue' uses an internal
88 # implementation, without the need of an external program.
89 #CUEREADERSYNTAX=default
91 # Specify the program to convert a CUE sheet back to a CD disc ID for CDDB queries.
92 # Select between '/path/to/cue2discid' (provided as an example) or
93 # 'abcde.cue2discid', implemented internaly.
94 #CUE2DISCID=abcde.cue2discid
96 # Keep the wav files after encoding. Set it to "y" and remove "clean" from
97 # the list of default actions, since we purge the temp directory as default.
100 # Track padding: force abcde to pad tracks using 0, so every song uses a two
101 # digit entry. If set to "y", even a single song encoding outputs a file like
105 # Define if you want abcde to be non-interactive.
106 # Keep in mind that there is no way to deactivate it right now in the command
107 # line, so setting this option makes abcde to be always non-interactive.
110 # Specify 'nice'ness of the encoder, the CD reader and the distmp3 proc.
111 # This is a relative 'nice'ness (that is, if the parent process is at a
112 # nice level of 12, and the ENCNICE is set to 3, then the encoder will
113 # run with an absolute nice value of 15. Note also, that setting these
114 # to be empty will result in some default niceness increase (4 in tcsh
115 # and 10 using the bsdutils' nice).
120 # Paths of programs to use
126 #XINGMP3ENC=xingmp3enc
138 #CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia
146 #VORBISCOMMENT=vorbiscomment
148 #NORMALIZE=normalize-audio
150 #VORBISGAIN=vorbisgain
155 # Options to call programs with:
157 # If HTTPGET is modified, the HTTPGETOPTS options should also be defined
158 # accordingly. If HTTPGET is changed, the default options will be set,
159 # if HTTPGETOPTS is empty or not defined.
161 # for fetch (FreeBSD): HTTPGETOPTS="-q -o -"
162 # for wget: HTTPGETOPTS="-q -nv -O -"
163 # for curl (MacOSX): HTTPGETOPTS="-f -s"
164 #HTTPGETOPTS="-q -O -"
185 # MPP/MP+ (Musepack):
186 # For the encoder options look at: mpcenc --longhelp. Set them like this:
187 # MPCENCOPTS='--xtreme' if you wish to set more options then:
188 # MPCENCOPTS='--xtreme --skip 20 --fade 10'
192 #For faac encoding try the following options (see also: faac --help):
194 #AACENCOPTS='-q 250 -w -s'
196 # For neroAacEnc encoding try the following options (see also neroAacEnc -help):
198 #AACENCOPTS='-q 0.65'
200 #ATOMICPARSLEY='AtomicParsley'
203 # For the encoder options look at: opusenc -h.
204 #OPUSENCOPTS='--bitrate 128'
207 #EYED3OPTS="--set-encoding=utf16-LE"
220 #VORBISCOMMENTOPTS="-R"
221 #METAFLACOPTS="--no-utf8-convert"
225 # Comma-separated list of one or more of the following:
226 # cddb,cue,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean,default
227 # encode implies read
228 # normalize implies read
229 # tag implies cddb,read,encode
230 # move implies cddb,read,encode,tag
231 # playlist implies cddb
232 # An action can be added to the "default" action by specifying it along with
233 # "default", without having to repeat the default ones:
234 # ACTIONS=default,playlist
235 # The default action list (referenced as "default") is defined in the following
237 #ACTIONS=cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean
239 # CD device you want to read from
240 # It can be defined as a singletrack flac file, but since it might change from
241 # file to file it makes little sense to define it here.
243 # If we are using the IDE bus, we need CDPARANOIACDROMBUS defined as "d"
244 # If we are using the ide-scsi emulation layer, we need to define a "g"
245 #CDPARANOIACDROMBUS="d"
247 # If you'd like to make a default location that overrides the current
248 # directory for putting mp3's, uncomment this.
251 # Or if you'd just like to put the temporary .wav files somewhere else
252 # you can specify that here
255 # OUTPUTTYPE can be either "ogg", "mp3", "flac", "spx", "opus" or a combination
256 # of them separated with ",": "ogg,mp3".
259 # Output filename format - change this to reflect your inner desire to
260 # organize things differently than everyone else :)
261 # You have the following variables at your disposal:
262 # OUTPUT, GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM and YEAR.
263 # Make sure to single-quote this variable. abcde will automatically create
264 # the directory portion of this filename.
265 # NOTICE: OUTPUTTYPE has been deprecated in the OUTPUTFORMAT string.
266 # Since multiple-output was integrated we always append the file type
267 # to the files. Remove it from your user defined string if you are getting
268 # files like ".ogg.ogg".
269 #OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
271 # Like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs.
272 #VAOUTPUTFORMAT='Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
274 # Like OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT but for the ONEFILE rips.
275 #ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT=$OUTPUTFORMAT
276 #VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT=$VAOUTPUTFORMAT
278 # Define how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
279 # on SMP systems. Defaults to 1. Equivalent to -j.
282 # Support for systems with low disk space:
283 # n: Default parallelization (read entire CD in while encoding)
284 # y: No parallelization (rip, encode, rip, encode...)
287 # If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
288 # volume differences between tracks of an album.
291 # Enables nogap encoding when using the 'lame' encoder.
294 # Set the playlist file location format. Uses the same variables and format
295 # as OUTPUTFORMAT. If the playlist is specified to be in a subdirectory, it
296 # will be created for you and the playlist will reference files from that
298 #PLAYLISTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}.${OUTPUT}.m3u'
299 # If you want to prefix every filename in a playlist with an arbitrary
300 # string (such as 'http://you/yourstuff/'), use this option
301 #PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX=''
303 #Like PLAYLIST{FORMAT,DATAPREFIX} but for Various Artists discs:
304 #VAPLAYLISTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}.${OUTPUT}.m3u'
305 #VAPLAYLISTDATAPREFIX=''
307 #This will give the playlist CR-LF line-endings, if set to "y".
308 #(some hardware players insist on CR-LF line-endings)
311 # Custom filename munging:
312 # By default, abcde will do the following to CDDB data to get a useful
314 # * Translate colons to a space and a dash for Windows compatibility
315 # * Eat control characters, single quotes, and question marks
316 # * Translate spaces and forward slashes to underscores
317 # To change that, redefine the mungefilename function.
318 # mungefilename receives the CDDB data (artist, track, title, whatever)
319 # as $1 and outputs it on stdout.
322 # echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ / __ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
325 # Custom genre munging:
326 # By default we just transform uppercase to lowercase. Not much of a fancy
327 # function, with not much use, but one can disable it or just turn the first
331 # echo $CDGENRE | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
335 # Custom pre-read function
336 # By default it does nothing.
337 # You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
338 # * Close the CD tray using eject -t (if available in eject and supported by
340 # * Set the CD speed. You can also use the built-in options, but you can also
341 # set it here. In Debian, eject -x and cdset -x do the job.
342 # KEEP IN MIND that executables included in pre_read must be in your $PATH or
343 # you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
344 # Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
350 # Custom post-read function
351 # By default it does nothing.
352 # You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
353 # * Store a copy of the CD TOC.
354 # KEEP IN MIND that executables included in post_read must be in your $PATH or
355 # you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
356 # Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
363 # By default it does nothing.
364 # You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
365 # * Move the resulting directory over the network
366 # * Compare results with a previously made run, for tests
367 # KEEP IN MIND that executables included in post_encode must be in your $PATH or
368 # you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
369 # Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
375 # If you'd like to have abcde eject the cdrom after all the tracks have been
376 # read, uncomment the following line.
379 # To encode on the remote machines foo, bar, baz, quux, and qiix, as well as
380 # on the local machine (requires distmp3 to be installed on local machine and
381 # distmp3host to be installed and running on all remote machines - see README)
382 #REMOTEHOSTS=foo,bar,baz,quux,qiix
384 # Set to 1,2, etc. to obtain some information about actions happening in the background
385 # Useful if you have a slow network or CDDB servers seem unresponsive.