3 * Make fdkaac the default for m4a encoding. Faac can still be selected
4 for m4a encding via ~/.abcde.conf file but best not to :).
5 * Split user-definable mungefilename function into mungetrackname,
6 mungeartistname, and mungealbumname, each of which default to
7 mungefilename Thanks to Gerald Turner for the patch and enhancement
8 request. This closes Issue 39:
9 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39
10 * FAQs: Clarify the exit from multi-result CDDB search.
11 * Fix to allow multiple output formats when aac fallback is triggered.
12 Thanks to Birk Bremer for the bug report. This closes Issue 35:
13 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35
14 * Fix for some erroneous error and status logging. Thanks to Christian
15 Wasem for the bug report and fix. This closes Issue 32:
16 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32
17 * Add support for trying multiple CD lookup services in order. Thanks to
18 Gabriel Rosenkoetter for the patch. Closes Issue 42:
19 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42
20 * Add Recommends on glyrc and imagemagick in Debian packaging. Closes
22 * Fix up handling of the first few sectors when reading
23 from a whole-CD flac file or using cdparanoia in one-track
24 mode. Thanks to Matthias König for the patch. Closes Issue 44:
25 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44
26 * Tweak the fix in musicbrainz for handling sketchy returned data
27 some more. Hopefully closes Issue 30:
28 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30
29 * Re-enable some commented out cdparanoia/debug code in do_discid.
31 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14
32 * Add "-a" to lots of grep calls in case of "binary" looking data,
33 e.g. non-ascii text in track titles!
35 https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24
39 * When using musicbrainz, don't assume that there will be release
40 events attached to a particular CD release. Bug fix for the addition
41 of year information support in 2.7.1. Thanks to Ed Oehler and Alan W.
42 Kerr for debugging help.
43 * Support for output to the Matroska container (mka). Encoder
44 is FFmpeg (or avconv). Typical conf file syntax would be:
46 MKAENCODERSYNTAX=ffmpeg
48 FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a ac3 -b:a 448k"
51 Thanks to Shantiq and Fakeoutdoorsman of the Ubuntu Forums
53 * Add id3tag mp3 tagger as this is the tagger available to
54 OpenBSD users. Thanks to Christopher Zimmermann for the
55 notification and patch.
56 * Allow for cddb response 500. Thanks again to Von Welch for the
57 bug report and patch. This closes Issue 26:
58 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26
59 * Fix for 'expansion of $REDIR' bug on MacOSX. Thanks to Von Welch
60 for the bug report. This closes Issue 22:
61 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22
62 * Makefile adjusted to allow the sample abcde.conf file to be
63 installed by default to /etc rather than $(prefix)/etc.
64 Thanks to Volker Schmidt from archlinux for the bug report:
65 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46671
66 * Allow getalbumart to correctly place cover image when single
67 track is selected. Thanks to Nino Burini for the bug report
68 and also the fix. This closes Issue 25:
69 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25
71 -- Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> Wed, 6 Apr 2016 08:47:56 +0000
75 * Rebuild of the abcde Makefile. Thanks to Reuben Thomas and Steve
76 McIntyre as well as ReaperX7, bobzilla, 55020, GazL and dugan from
77 the Slackware Forums. This closes Issue 4:
78 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4
79 * Fix incorrect use of 'break'. Thanks to Reuben Thomas for the
80 bug report and fix which closes Issue 6:
81 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6
82 * Make older versions of id3 happy when 'Genre' field is empty.
83 Thanks to Martin Husemann for the fix which closes Issue 8:
84 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8
85 * Add YEAR and GENRE variables to do_getalbumart(). Thanks to
86 Johannes Gernemann for this patch which closes issue 9:
87 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9
88 * Support added for encoding to True Audio using tta while still
89 supporting the older ttaenc. Tagging is with mid3v2.
90 * Support added for encoding to MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2)
91 with either twolame or FFmpeg / avconv. Tagging with mid3v2.
92 * Encoding to WavPack with FFmpeg. Some slight changes to WavPack
93 syntax with backward compatibility built in for abcde 2.7.
94 * Encoding to m4a container with FFmpeg or avconv. This allows
95 for alac encoding with FFmpeg's reverse engineered alac encoder.
96 * AAC encoding with fhgaacenc via Wine. Tagging is provided
97 by AtomicParsley which has been added back to abcde :). This
98 allows encoding with HE-AAC v2, unavailable with qaac.
99 * Support added for AAC encoding with qaac via Wine. This
100 also allows for Apple Lossless Audio Coding (alac) using
101 either qaac or refalac. This closes Issue 142, thanks to
102 Bernd Fischer-Krellenberg for the enhancement request.
103 * Grab year information too when using musicbrainz. Thanks to
104 Marco Hoppstaedter for the patch. Closes issue 10:
105 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10
107 -- Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:31:07 +0000
111 * Rewrite of abcde's mungefilename function. Thanks to
112 Andreas Kusalananda Kahari for this and also thanks
113 to Andrew Willis for the report which triggered the
114 rewrite. Thanks also to shughes for an earlier report.
115 This closes Issues 72 and 135.
116 * TRACKTOTAL now written to flac and ogg files. Thanks to
117 monkth for the notification. This resolves Issue 76.
118 * Support added for the downloading of album art. A huge
119 thank you to Johannes Gernemann who came forward with
120 the technique used and also the original patch. An equally
121 huge thanks to Richard who extended and greatly enhanced
122 the original patch. Detailed documentation added to the
123 abcde FAQ document although the sane defaults in place
124 will guarantee a good experience even for those who do
125 not read documentation! This closes Issue 33.
126 * Support added for ripping with the GNU Compact Disc
127 Input and Control library (libcdio) as requested by
128 both gentoo and NixOS. The utility used is cd-paranoia
129 and can best be called from a conf file as follows:
131 CDROMREADERSYNTAX=libcdio
132 CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia
133 CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40 --verbose"
135 with the CD_PARANOIA variable giving the correct path
136 to cd-paranoia. I believe that cd-paranoia uses the same
137 options as cdparanoia but if I am proven incorrect this
138 will need to be rectified...
139 * Fix for encoding with bladeenc and usepipes.
140 * Fix for broken ripping with dagrab. Closes Issue 140.
141 * Fix for diskutil selecting wrong disk on OS X. Thanks
142 to Richard for this fix which closes Issue 139.
143 * Added some error checking and documentation for
144 the abcde-musicbrainz-tool. Thanks yet again to
145 Matthias Andree for this work! Closes issue 138.
146 * New variables for m4a/aac encoding options to be
147 manipulated in a users ~/.abcde.conf file:
148 1. FAACENCOPTS for faac encoding options
149 2. NEROAACENCOPTS for neroAacEnc options
150 3. FDKAACENCOPTS for fdkaacenc options
151 Note that these options replace the now obsolete AACENCOPTS.
152 * Check added for neroAacTag when encoding with neroAacEnc.
153 * Several additions to usepipes with the following encoders
157 3. mpcenc: Musepack SV8
162 The cd ripper cdda2wav (icedax) has also been added.
163 * Ripping and encoding with 'usepipes' fixed. This fix
165 * Suggested encoding options for mp3enc added to the sample
166 abcde.conf. Last release of mp3enc in 1998 but it still
167 works flawlessly with a modern abcde!
168 * Suggested encoding options for l3enc added to the sample
169 abcde.conf. Congratulations to abcde which in 2015 still
170 works with l3enc which saw its final release in 1997!
171 * Fix for -o option use with options and multiple outputs.
172 This allows for commandline options such as the following:
173 abcde -o 'flac:-8,mp3:-b 320'
174 Thanks to Matthias Andree for yet another quality patch!
175 This closes Issue 136.
176 * Support added for ReplayGain with WavPack encoding.
177 * Fix for MusePack to allow the use of the SV8 ReplayGain
178 application 'mpcgain'.
179 * Monkey's Audio (ape) encoding added. Tagging is with
180 Robert Muth's apetag. Thanks to Shantiq for testing.
181 * Simplify Opus tagging.This closes Issue 133.
182 * Allow 'clean' when OUTPUTTYPE=wav, broken for some time.
183 Thanks to Roger rogerx.oss<at>gmail.com for showing the
184 problem and demonstrating the fix. This closes Issue 94.
185 * Clarification that CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE=y is required for
186 local CDDB search. Thanks to Reuben Thomas for the
187 notification. This partially resolves Issue 121.
188 * AtomicParsley removed from debian/control, WavPack added.
189 * Details of abcde's handling of faac compiled with and
190 without mp4v2 added as a new entry to FAQs.
191 * Fix to allow display of the 'date' meta tag generated
192 by eyeD3 in vlc, Audacious and friends.
193 Thanks to Reuben Thomas. This closes Issue 126.
194 * Fix for flac floating point error. Thanks to rwvtveer
195 for the patch which closes Issue 113.
196 * Formalised 3 methods of mp3 tagging using ID3TAGV:
197 1.id3v2.4 using eyeD3 (set in abcde as the default)
198 2.id3v2.3 using id3v2
200 Thanks to Adriaan for this patch which fixes issue 101.
201 * Support for WavPack added. Closes issue 123.
202 * Fix for mp3 encoding with different versions of eyeD3.
203 Thanks to Matthias Andree for this patch.
204 * Major AAC encoding cleanup, including addition of the fdkaac encoder.
205 Thanks to Doug Mcmahon for assistance with this.
207 -- Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:27:52 +0000
211 * Fix finding $CDROM on OS X. Thanks to niederstrasser for the patch.
213 * USEID3 and USEID3V2 variables are unused now, so remove them. Thanks
214 to vskytta for the patch. Closes issue 73.
215 * Clean up movement to eyeD3, remove id3v2 remnants. Thanks to vskytta
216 for the patch. Closes issue 74.
217 * Fix infinite loop if cddb fails. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
218 patch. Closes: #687038 in Debian
219 * Switch from Musepack SV7 to SV8. Thanks to Andrew Strong for the
221 * Allow aac encoding with neroAacEnc. Thanks to atheren for the patch.
223 * Allow opus encoding with opusenc. Thanks to Tomasz Golinski for the
224 patch. Closes issue 70.
225 * Fix typo: s/CUEWAVEFILE/CUEWAVFILE/ so that abcde.mkcue should now
226 produce working cue files. Closes issue 78.
227 * Remove no-op -q option. Closes issue 106. Thanks to vskytta for the
229 * Fix issue 112: perl encoding pragma deprecation. Thanks to Alex Corrie
231 * Fix option parsing for multiple output formats. Thanks to
232 matthias.andree@gmx.de for the patch. Closes issue 115.
233 * Fix eyeD3 tagging for cddb entries without year. Thanks to vskytta for
234 the patch. Closes issue 107
235 * Add mention of CD-TEXT support in the man page. Closes issue 102.
236 * Make Y/N prompting more consistent. Closes issue 95
237 * Remove the no-op -B option. Closes: #426531 in Debian
238 * Document the need to escape parentheses in tag comments.
239 Closes: #256941 in Debian.
240 * Concatenate option steps on -t/-T option. Thanks to Charles
241 Steinkuehler for the patch. Closes: #391294 in Debian
242 * Try to use bsd-mailx where possible to force UTF-8 for cddb-tool mail
243 submissions. If not possible, attempt to force UTF-8 via the
244 environment and fall back to mail instead. Closes: #756289 in Debian,
247 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:17:24 -0700
251 * Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
252 for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
253 * Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
254 for the patch. Closes issue 50.
255 * Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
256 tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)
258 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:11 +0100
262 * Sort options alphabetically (Closes issue 58).
263 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
264 * Add Recommends: mailx in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
265 users. Closes: #607147
266 * Fix encoding call for m4a. (Closes issue 31). Closes: #449045
267 * Fix do_musicbrainz() for the case where there are no matches.
268 * When using Musicbrainz, checksum and only output unique matches for an
269 album. Closes: #669143
270 * Add Recommends: atomicparsley in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
272 * Remove documentation of the old "-R" option for recursive searching of
273 local CDDB data, it's now enabled always. (Closes issue 57).
274 * Fix use of awk (sub instead of substr) when generating CRLF line endings.
276 * Make sure that ABCDETEMPDIR is quoted so we can deal with spaces in
277 file and directory names. Closes issue 64. Thanks to
278 richard.security.consultant for the patch, adapted slightly.
279 * Tweak do_cdtext() so it works on OS X too. Closes issue 65.
280 Thanks to richard.security.consultant for the patch.
281 * Change cddb-tool to use bash to make sure that echo -n works.
283 * Fixes for lots of spelling mistakes from vskytta. Closes issue 68.
284 * For safety across different systems, avoid using "sed -i".
287 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:12:11 +0100
292 * Re-fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
293 Thanks to vskytta for pointing out the problem - patch not applied
295 * Quickly re-release as 2.5.2
297 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:17:14 +0100
302 * Several patches for improved Musicbrainz support from Martin Michlmayr:
303 + add musicbrainz support for FLAC files with embedded cue files.
305 + Don't submit to CDDB server when using musicbrainz
307 + Don't tag CDDB string with musicbrainz id
309 * Fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
310 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
311 * Fix aac tagging. (Closes issue 7).
312 Thanks to Andrew Strong for forwarding the patch.
313 * Add ATOMICPARSLEY=AtomicParsley (Closes issue 37).
314 * On OS X, switch from disktool to diskutil. (Closes issue 43).
315 * Updates for CD device detection:
316 + Look for /dev/sr0, in case /dev/cdrom doesn't exist.
318 + Add suggested diskutil code to auto-detect the CD on OS X.
320 * Check that we have $CDDBTOOL before we start. (Closes issue 27).
321 * Change the meaning of EXTRAVERBOSE; previously, it was a y/n option
322 to make things more verbose. Add extra levels of verbosity (0, 1, 2 so
323 far) and a new vvecho() function for callers to use.
324 * With EXTRAVERBOSE==2 or more, make run_command() print out each
325 command as it's run. (Closes issue 39).
326 * If we don't find any CDDB or Musicbrainz information for the CD, try
327 to extract CD-Text information to populate the cddbinfo template.
329 * Try to give more helpful error messages when we can't parse the
330 command line, and exit rather than carry on. (Closes issue 51).
333 * replace deprecated egrep with grep -E (Closes issue 24).
334 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
335 * remove -o 0 options from make install (Closes issue 17).
336 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
337 * clean up indentation on older changelog entries
338 * remove tarball target from Makefile since dir structure
339 has changed now that we use subversion.
340 * improve presentation of options/defaults when asking a question
343 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:35:00 +0100
348 * Add support for Musicbrainz using a perl helper script.
350 * Tweak man page. Thanks to Mats Erik Andersson for the patch.
352 * Make the -q option work again. Thanks to A Mennucc for the patch.
355 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:29:45 +0100
360 * Fix Cue file always references "dummy.wav" bug
361 patch from Chris Chiappa (Closes: #459928).
362 * Whitespace cleanup, replace single perl instance with sed
363 (Charles Steinkuehler)
364 * Fix leadin/leadout computation for cue files broken bug
365 Patch from Martin Michlmayr (Closes: #582175).
367 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 29 May 2010 09:43:01 +0100
372 * In manpage note a 2nd use for LOWDISK (or '-l' switch)
373 it's faster and better on scratchy disks (Closes: #426343).
374 * Add configurable options for replaygain tools.
375 * Fix syntax error in tagged speex command (Closes: #554406)
376 Ubuntu patch by Michael Helmling.
377 * Fix mp3 tagging fails for single author albums (Closes: #554030)
379 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:09:47 +0000
384 * Corrected REDIR redirection, this time with ifs instead of variable
385 substitution, which did not work (Closes: #527191).
386 * Added TPE2 for Various artists definition (Closes: #521669).
387 * Incorporate syntax error fix patch from Andrew Ruder.
388 * Fix formatting for track number tagging.
389 * Replace dependency on cdda2wav with icedax since the former has
392 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:33:33 +0100
396 * Remove svn Revision tag from version.
397 * Correct homepage URL in README (Closes: #526165).
398 * Fix typos (Closes: #435605, #435606).
399 * Fix misspelling of comma in script and manpage (Closes: #435603).
400 * Fix Writable temp directories not owned/writeable (Closes: #143552).
401 * Fix broken range code, patch from Charles Steinkuehler (Closes: #389981).
402 * Remove unneeded escapes in cddb-tool URLs.
403 Add support for freedb2 (Closes: #391110).
404 another patch from Charles Steinkuehler.
405 * Fix Endless loop possible when mp3gain asks clipping question bug
407 * Update Vcs-Svn: tag in debian/control.
408 * Add a recommends for vorbis-tools (Closes: #392843).
409 * Update standards version to 3.8.2 (no changes required).
410 * Fix debian/preinst not to ignore errors.
412 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:32:30 +0100
418 * The "It took me a long time to get this release out" release.
419 * abcde.1: remove -M in favour of "-a cue" (Closes: #382614, #396505).
420 * Added a check for a DOCUE already set in the command line
422 * Added -q <Q> as a quality option.
423 * PREGAP was not set in some situations (Closes: #390170).
424 * Added -nv to wget for "no verbose" output, to avoid wget complaining it
425 cannot be quiet and verbose at the same time if "verbose = on" is set in
426 ~/.wgetrc (Closes: #388715).
427 * Added XS-Vcs-Svn: field to control file.
428 * Added some hints if we are using Debian for what packages need to be
429 installed if their binaries are not found.
430 * Spelling mistakes corrected (thanks to Ville Skytta).
431 * Unset GREP_OPTIONS to avoid things like printing number in the beginning of
432 the line (Closes: #383771).
433 * Default answer to erase a playlist was not working (thanks to Charles
434 Steinkuehler) (Closes: #395108).
435 * Corrected man page wrapping. Thanks to Edward J. Shornock
437 * Adds DISCNUMBER to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC when using -W.
438 * Minor typos (Closes: #458995).
439 * Added AtomicParley for AAC encoding. Thanks to Bill Adams.
440 * Added by Marc Staveley:
442 - track comments if null and present in CDDB.
443 * Corrected copyright information (Closes: #516535).
446 * Added new uploader (Closes: #529695).
447 * Fix Lintian warning for make-clean-error.
448 * Fix FSF address in debian/copyright.
449 * Fix binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep lintian warning.
450 * Add homepage: field to debian/control
451 * Update standards version to 3.8.0
452 * Remove debian/conffiles (it is not needed).
453 * Fix syntax error in abcde (missing fi).
455 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:50:42 +0100
459 * Default to UNICODE (UTF8) tags and comments (Closes: #282332).
460 - Added CDDBPROTO option in config file (Closes: #349951)
461 * Added a missing "INDEX 01" entry for CUE sheet creation.
462 * Avoid completing the encoding of files if we aborted previously.
463 * Embed the CUE sheet if we have a cuesheet file and we have a single FLAC
464 file, even if we are not tagging. This way we can use the file as a source
465 even if it is not tagged/named properly.
466 * Fails to quote filenames properly (Closes: #355296)
467 * Introduced VA/ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT.
468 * Added a missing check for AACENCODER.
469 * Updated config file with some new AAC bits.
470 * Updated FSF address.
471 * Corrected NetBSD options for ftp (Thanks to Marius).
472 * The final 2.4 will have "cuefile" as an action instead of as a flag.
473 * Create the cuefile when extracting from a FLAC file.
474 * Small bugs (Charles Steinkuehler):
475 - Added missing quotes (Closes: #375710)
476 - toolame is included in Debian as default MP3 encoder
477 - Use IFS to preserve spaces when adding metadata to a cuefile
478 * Small documentation changes:
479 - abcde.1 (Closes: #364978)
480 * The following entries have in common that both add an internal cue2discid
481 function. I will evaluate which one is more accurate and decide which one
482 to use. Right now they are not conflicting:
483 - Added internal mkcue and cue2discid functions (Charles Steinkuehler) and
484 add a check for internal abcde.<function> to make sure we are using the
485 correct version (not sure if needed ;)
486 - Added an internal implementation of cue2discid, so there is no need for
487 an external program to do the conversion. Thanks to Michael (sorry, his
488 mail does not have a surname).
489 * cue2discid is now an internal function, so no need for including the
490 python script in the path (Closes: #378407)
491 * cddb-tool.1 typo (Thanks to A. Costa) (Closes: #351775)
492 * abcde.1 typo (Thanks to David L. Anselmi) (Closes: #364978)
493 * Set proper nice values to not separate encoding and reading in the pipes
494 situation, while having a high priority process running in the system.
495 Also, set proper nice values to tagging tasks. Reading should remain as
496 the default higher priority task in the abcde flow (Closes: #359156)
497 * Standards bumped to 3.7.2.1, no changes needed.
499 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:26:56 +0300
503 * Repaired multiple CDDB entries when recursive search is active.
504 * Patch from A. Costa to clean some typos (Closes: #351774).
506 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 07 Feb 2006 23:48:00 +0200
510 * Repaired multiple output encoding (Closes: #351362).
511 * Added missing space on a [] test statement.
512 * Added "default" action, so that one can add things on top of what we do
513 regularly, without having to list everything: "-a default,playlist" works.
514 * Restored all the > /dev/null instead of using grep -q, since it is not
516 * Added Solaris OS entry, in case we need to define things for it.
518 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 05 Feb 2006 15:24:00 +0200
522 * The "Mao es nuestro indiscutible lider" release.
523 * Check the CDROMREADER options we have in Debian which we depend on. Thanks
524 to Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo for finding the error.
525 * New recursive option for local CDDB repositories, to cope with other
526 players saving the entries.
527 * Brand new CD backup procedure: rip a CD into a single FLAC trac with an
528 embedded cuesheet using "-1 -M -o flac" and proceed to rip your tracks
529 from the obtained file using "-d file.flac -o <format>". It needs
530 cue2discid script from the examples directory to work. OH! If you manage
531 to get it working with bash, we can get rid of the python dependency...
532 * Initial steps to make abcde working with musicbrainz, although it is not
534 * Added a missing $ in a variable (Closes: #345629).
535 * Added -p to the mkdir's for $ABCDETEMPDIR (Closes: #345630).
536 * Added iconv + converted to utf-8 the charset of a ready-to-send CDDB
537 entry (Closes: #345708).
538 * Added AAC (Mpeg4) support.
539 * Small cd-discid update.
541 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:27:40 +0200
545 * Missing bits in the 2.3.99.1 changelog:
546 - Man page: added information about -z (Debug option).
547 - Corrected config file with the BATCHNORM/NOGAP split
549 - Uses /bin/bash for the time being... We need to get some substitution
550 functions/operations for the bashisms we have: Closes: #337139.
551 * Config bits with corrected typos
552 * Adding musicbrainz support. First bits.
553 * Reworked comparison for numerical answer when selecting a CDDB output.
556 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:46:58 +0200
560 * Both -z and -C unset EJECTCD to avoid ejecting the CD when a) we are
561 debuging and b) we are not using the CD.
562 * If we are not reading the CD, set "loud" to see all the output messages
563 (that is, in most of the cases, the first encoding).
564 * Added -f to force some events that otherwise would erase files from our
565 current run. In the standard configuration ("OUTPUT=vorbis") the following
566 actions will need a "-f" to force the last one:
567 abcde -a read,encode -o ogg,flac
568 abcde -a tag,move,clean
569 During the second run abcde should complain that it is trying to erase the
570 working directory while the it has not performed any action on the FLAC
571 files, which we encoded previously.
572 * Convert the old cdparanoia-audio-tracks file into a status entry to avoid
573 eating files from previous rounds using an early version (Closes: #341050)
575 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:27:20 +0200
579 * Added diff choice to CDDB entries ("1,4").
580 * Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to allow the user to show YEAR and GENRE in the
582 * Suggests mkcue, and erase old cdgrab info since sarge is out.
583 * Changed cdparanoia-audio-tracks to use the status file to save the data.
584 * Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
585 cuesheet as a source of tracks.
586 * Added -z for easy and quick debug.
587 * BATCH has been split into two options: BATCHNORM which allows, by using
588 -b, to use the -a normalize in all the files at once, and NOGAP, that by
589 using -g, introduces the lame's --nogap extension.
590 * Added replygain using the appropriate tags with Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC.
591 * Replaygain is an action, not a flag, since it can be performed individually
592 in the chain of events.
593 * debian/{rules,control}:
594 - Changed the target directory from tmp to abcde, to accommodate to compat
596 - Bump standards to 3.6.2.1. No changes needed.
597 * Added "decho" as a DEBUG output for some specific debug variables.
598 * Added USEPIPES file, with information about how to add Unix pipes support.
599 * Added one more checking for PIPES*_* unset variables (which means support
600 is not added to abcde).
601 * Added toolame as an optional MP3 encoder.
603 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:05:32 +0300
607 * Some patches from Tom Spindler <dogcow () babymeat ! com>
608 - Added some quoting to the md5sum checkings, since the variables could be
610 - NetBSD bits to use ftp instead on anything else to fetch stuff.
611 * do_playlist needs to convert the OUTPUT to the CONTAINERS to avoid ending
612 with playlists pointing to .vorbis files (Closes: #326487).
614 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:50:07 +0300
618 * Rips done in a single track were getting tagged as Various. Corrected.
619 * Possibly eliminated some bashisms from using a variable as a variable
620 (Closes: #324399). Thanks to A Costa.
622 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:35 +0300
626 * Too fast... I forgot to make the tarball and change the version strings in
627 several places. Fixed.
629 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:44:37 +0300
633 * The new "I knew there were going to be bugs" upstream release!
634 * MKCUE needs to be passed some $CDROM as an option, or otherwise it will
635 not read the CDROM, in case is not /dev/cdrom.
636 * Also, make the CUEREADER a bit more general, since we might be using other
639 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:44:20 +0300
643 * New upstream release!
644 * Defining the tracknumber now resets the first track if given a number
645 different than 1 (that is: abcde -T 1 2-10 creates songs 1 to 9).
646 * Modified the FAQ to reflect the changes on Marillat's repo
648 * Should be "space" safe: works properly when the working directory contains
649 a space (Closes: #147493).
650 * Repared the CD query for the discid code. When failing to read a disc,
651 actually report that there might be no disc in the drive.
652 * Right now, walk over the different encoders we Depends: on in Debian and
653 use the one available: if a user has a FLAC encoder, abcde will no install
654 vorbis-tools, so it will fail to run out of the box (Closes: #321216)
655 * Added CUE support. Still experimental...
656 * Added FLAC on Ogg. Still not activated, since we cannot get comments added
657 as a post-process action.
658 * Applied patches from Fedora Core (Credit goes to Nils Philippsen
659 <nphilipp@redhat.com>)
660 * Added a post_read() function to be executed before ejecting the CD.
661 * Typos reported by A Costa corrected (Closes: #311463)
662 * Problem with abcde being run in a directory with files containing only
663 numbers solved (Closes: #313628).
664 * vorbiscomment uses now "-R" (Closes: #303566).
665 * "-t" and "-T" use the first track as a starter for the track list.
667 * Added CDPARANOIACDROMBUS option to define -d in case of using IDE and SCSI
668 in case of using ide-scsi emulation layer (Closes: #290768).
669 * Define metaflac in abcde.conf (Closes: #303555)
670 * Added the default "-f" option to the configuration file, to represent the
671 actual default option.
673 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:47:27 +0300
677 * Double quotation added to solve parsing * as a wildcard (Closes: #302904).
678 Thanks to Christian Grigis for the patch. Also (Closes: #268088).
680 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:18:03 +0000
684 * CDPARANOIAOUTPUT missed some quotes.
685 * Removed some useless lines.
686 * If BATCH is used with ONETRACK, disable BATCH.
687 * Small typos with CDROM comparisons.
688 * Logic for CDROM variable improved.
689 * Version bumped to 2.2.5 and targeted to Sarge.
691 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 2 Apr 2005 21:05:18 +0300
695 * Changed the way we call flac, to adapt to the new times:
696 --import-vc-from= to --import-tags-from.
697 * DOSPLAYLIST was not included in the list of options.
698 * Options passed to the encoder by using <-o ogg:"-b 192"> are now
699 supported. One can modify the way abcde encodes just for the current CD.
700 * Unfortunatelly I forgot to add the starting number for tags in Ogg. For
701 MP3 is a bit more difficult, since it needs changing the X/YY code.
702 * Also, the order of the tags in metaflac is important for the utf8 names.
703 Thanks to Frederik Juul Christiani (Closes: #297482)
704 * Added CDROMID in the .conf file, for reader programs that need it
706 * Added a check for cdparanoia when encountering data-only CDs.
708 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:14:24 +0200
713 - suggest normalize-audio, since it changed its name (Closes: #287674).
714 * Use the default while erasing an existing playlist (Closes: #288835).
715 * Does not destroy track information when a track contains "=" in the name
718 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:35:46 +0200
722 * Quotes missing when evaluating a value (Closes: #284018).
724 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:20:18 +0200
728 * Spotted and solved a problem with the way the data tracks were detected
731 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:47:54 +0200
735 * New release! Let's see if abcde 2.2 gets into Sarge.
736 * Added support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoding. Although I am trying to
737 get 2.2 for Debian Sarge release, mpc seems safe enough to introduce. See
738 corecodec.org for code.
739 * Some POSIX shell corrections (making the code more portable). Thanks to
740 Guillem Jover for pointing the problem out.
741 * CDYEAR is also passed to do_move(), so one can use it for sorting the
743 * Small MacOS X fix, allowing directories with "()" to work. Thanks to Evan
745 - On the MacOS X, I still do not know if abcde works correctly. If does
746 not, please, drop a note. Or else.
747 * DOSPLAYLIST also changes "/" with "\".
748 * DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
749 the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
750 work (at least there is no support for them in abcde)
751 (Closes: #112692, #117412).
752 * New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
753 template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
754 * New options for when the PLAYLIST already exists: erase, append or keep.
755 * Bug fixes along the code:
756 - abcde.1 corrections and additions
757 - abcde corrections and code reorganization. abcde now exits earlier if
758 some of the options are incompatible. Also the actions are set as
759 variables earlier, so we use less calls to external tools.
760 - abcde.conf additions
761 * The GENRE is munged now in its own mungegenre function, so that no more
762 upper-to-lowercase is done (forced) except if the default is used.
763 * Examples added to the tarball and /usr/share/doc/abcde/examples with two
764 scripts to make abcde kind-of-a ripper daemon.
765 * Changed to experimental to have an stable 2.1.x version in Sarge.
766 * Add CDDB information to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files (Closes: #265358).
767 * Added INTERACTIVE option. Set it to "n" and there you go, without user
769 * Changes normalize to normalize-audio (Closes: #267053)
770 * Copes with wav files being erased by the ripping tool.
771 * Small patch to support ()'s in the path under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones
772 for noticing and sending the patch.
773 * Added -w for COMMENT seed. Used to give a comment to a given CD.
774 * Option "-t <number>" added to modify the numbering from a starting point
775 (Closes: #95828). Geez! That is low bug number...
776 * Added -T to modify also the tag entries on the songs. Currently available
777 for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
778 * Removes trailing spaces (Closes: #280382).
779 * TRACKNAME now combines multi-lines from long CDDB entries.
781 - s/dh_installmanpages/dh_installman/
783 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:11:22 +0200
787 * Changed normalize with normalize-audio (Closes: #267053).
789 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:16:46 +0000
793 * The "Let's have a good abcde in Sarge" release.
794 * The mungefile() function changes * with + by default to avoid creating
795 directories with the start expanded to the files found in the current
796 directory. abcde2.2 will most likelly contain a better workaround.
797 * Correct default OUTPUTFORMAT in man page (Closes: #250649)
799 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:46 +0300
803 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
806 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
810 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
811 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
813 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
817 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
820 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
824 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
825 spinning at high speed.
826 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
827 tray (Closes: #137548).
828 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
829 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
830 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
832 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
833 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
834 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
836 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
837 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
838 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
839 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
840 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
841 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
843 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
847 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
849 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
851 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
853 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
854 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
855 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
856 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
857 and wondering is somethins is happening).
858 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
860 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
864 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
866 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
870 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
871 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
872 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
873 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
874 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
876 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
880 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
881 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
882 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
883 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
884 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
885 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
886 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
888 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
889 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
890 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
891 with the reports I have received.
893 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
897 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
898 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
899 we will not try to be very smart.
900 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
902 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
904 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
905 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
906 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
907 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
908 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
910 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
914 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
915 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
916 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
917 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
919 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
920 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
921 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
922 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
923 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
924 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
925 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
926 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
927 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
929 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
930 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
931 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
932 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
933 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
935 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
936 file is actually there.
938 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
942 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
943 * One head was missing a "-n"
944 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
945 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
947 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
951 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
952 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
954 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
956 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
957 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
960 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
964 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
965 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
966 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
967 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
969 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
970 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
972 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
976 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
977 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
978 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
979 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
980 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
981 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
982 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
983 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
985 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
987 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
991 * Small fixes and patches.
992 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
993 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
994 + small bug with batch encoding
995 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
996 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
997 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
999 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
1000 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
1001 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
1002 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
1003 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
1004 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
1005 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
1007 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
1012 + COMMENT should work now.
1013 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
1015 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
1016 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
1018 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
1022 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
1023 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
1024 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
1025 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
1027 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
1028 * Typo in abcde.conf
1029 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
1030 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
1032 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
1033 missing): Closes: #191475.
1035 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
1039 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
1040 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
1041 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
1042 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
1043 can always split the files once they are created.
1044 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
1045 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
1046 of files (Closes: #111627).
1047 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
1048 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
1049 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
1050 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
1051 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
1052 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
1054 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
1060 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
1064 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
1065 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
1067 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
1068 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
1069 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
1071 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
1075 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
1076 * Few more doc update bits.
1077 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
1078 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
1080 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
1081 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
1083 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
1086 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
1087 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
1088 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
1089 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
1090 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
1091 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
1092 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
1094 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
1095 * NetBSD patches applied:
1096 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
1097 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
1098 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
1099 + multiple output and error checking
1100 + multiple lists support
1101 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the beginning.
1104 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
1107 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
1108 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
1109 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
1110 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
1111 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
1112 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
1113 Norris, closes: #126327
1114 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
1115 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
1116 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
1117 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
1119 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
1122 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
1123 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
1125 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
1129 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
1130 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
1131 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
1132 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
1133 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
1134 closes: #111478, #111500
1135 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
1137 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
1139 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
1140 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
1141 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
1142 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
1143 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
1145 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
1146 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
1148 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
1150 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
1154 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
1156 * Minor documentation updates
1158 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
1162 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
1163 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
1164 containing spaces, closes: #89682
1165 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
1166 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
1167 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
1168 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
1169 status checking situations, closes: #93395
1170 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
1171 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
1173 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
1175 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
1176 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
1177 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
1178 with their exit codes before aborting.
1179 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
1181 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
1182 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
1184 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
1188 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
1189 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
1190 Beyerlein for noticing this
1192 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
1196 * The Groundshaking Release
1197 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
1198 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
1199 discs named in a different format
1200 * Accommodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
1201 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
1202 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
1203 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
1204 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
1206 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
1207 longer have the CD handy
1208 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
1209 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
1210 * More documentation updates
1212 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
1216 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
1218 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
1219 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
1220 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
1221 * cddb-tool template output fixes
1222 * Yet more documentation updates
1223 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
1224 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
1226 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
1227 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
1228 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
1230 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
1234 * The Squishy Release
1235 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
1236 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
1237 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
1238 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
1240 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
1244 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
1245 * Some documentation updates
1246 * mungefilename quoting fix
1247 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
1249 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
1253 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
1254 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
1255 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
1256 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
1257 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
1258 * OUTPUTDIR works again
1260 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
1265 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
1266 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
1267 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
1269 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
1273 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
1274 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
1275 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
1276 for non-interactivity.
1277 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
1278 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
1279 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
1280 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
1281 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
1282 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
1284 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
1285 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
1286 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
1287 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
1288 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
1290 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
1294 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
1295 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
1296 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
1297 * Resuming operation works better now
1298 * Patched up offline usage again
1299 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
1300 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
1302 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
1305 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
1310 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
1311 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
1312 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
1313 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
1314 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
1315 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
1316 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
1318 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
1322 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
1323 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
1324 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
1325 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
1326 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
1328 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
1332 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
1333 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
1335 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
1336 (Thanks: Vincent Ho)
1337 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
1340 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
1344 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
1345 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
1346 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
1348 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
1352 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
1353 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
1354 * README file URL fixes/updates
1356 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
1360 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
1362 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
1366 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
1367 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
1368 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
1369 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
1370 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
1372 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
1376 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
1377 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
1378 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
1379 local caching name servers
1380 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
1382 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
1386 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
1387 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
1388 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
1390 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
1394 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
1395 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
1396 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
1397 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
1399 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
1403 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
1404 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
1405 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
1406 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
1407 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
1408 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
1409 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
1410 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
1412 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
1413 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
1416 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
1420 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
1421 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
1422 relative paths for playlist files
1423 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
1424 playlist data with things like URL's
1425 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
1426 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
1427 stderr as it should).
1429 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
1433 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
1435 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
1439 * Removed bashisms (again :)
1441 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
1445 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
1448 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
1452 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
1453 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
1454 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
1455 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
1456 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
1458 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
1459 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
1461 The program name is now 'abcde'.
1463 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
1467 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
1468 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
1469 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
1471 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
1475 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
1476 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
1477 * Added cddb-tool manpage
1479 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
1483 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
1485 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
1489 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
1490 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
1491 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
1492 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
1493 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
1494 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
1497 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
1501 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
1502 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
1504 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
1508 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
1509 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
1511 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
1515 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
1516 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
1517 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
1518 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
1519 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
1520 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
1521 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accommodates the recent
1522 cdparanoia package namechange.
1523 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
1524 Norris for tracking this down.
1526 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
1530 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
1531 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
1533 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
1534 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
1535 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
1536 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
1538 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
1539 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
1540 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
1542 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
1544 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
1548 * Fixes wget calling method
1549 * -l/LOWDISK documented
1550 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
1551 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
1553 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
1557 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
1560 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
1564 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
1565 parallelized session.
1566 * MAXPROCS added to config file
1567 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
1568 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
1570 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
1574 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
1575 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
1576 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
1578 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
1580 * Output fix for TOC printing
1581 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
1583 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
1587 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
1589 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
1593 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
1594 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
1596 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
1600 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
1602 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
1603 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
1604 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
1606 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
1610 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
1611 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
1612 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
1614 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
1618 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
1619 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
1620 (I wish mutt did this :)
1621 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
1622 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
1623 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
1624 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
1626 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
1630 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
1631 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
1632 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
1633 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
1634 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
1635 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
1637 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
1643 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999