3 * Allow for cddb response 500. Thanks again to Von Welch for the
4 bug report and patch. This closes Issue 26:
5 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26
6 * Fix for 'expansion of $REDIR' bug on MacOSX. Thanks to Von Welch
7 for the bug report. This closes Issue 22:
8 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22
9 * Makefile adjusted to allow the sample abcde.conf file to be
10 installed by default to /etc rather than $(prefix)/etc.
11 Thanks to Volker Schmidt from archlinux for the bug report:
12 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46671
13 * Allow getalbumart to correctly place cover image when single
14 track is selected. Thanks to Nino Burini for the bug report
15 and also the fix. This closes Issue 25:
16 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25
20 * Rebuild of the abcde Makefile. Thanks to Reuben Thomas and Steve
21 McIntyre as well as ReaperX7, bobzilla, 55020, GazL and dugan from
22 the Slackware Forums. This closes Issue 4:
23 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4
24 * Fix incorrect use of 'break'. Thanks to Reuben Thomas for the
25 bug report and fix which closes Issue 6:
26 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6
27 * Make older versions of id3 happy when 'Genre' field is empty.
28 Thanks to Martin Husemann for the fix which closes Issue 8:
29 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8
30 * Add YEAR and GENRE variables to do_getalbumart(). Thanks to
31 Johannes Gernemann for this patch which closes issue 9:
32 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9
33 * Support added for encoding to True Audio using tta while still
34 supporting the older ttaenc. Tagging is with mid3v2.
35 * Support added for encoding to MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2)
36 with either twolame or FFmpeg / avconv. Tagging with mid3v2.
37 * Encoding to WavPack with FFmpeg. Some slight changes to WavPack
38 syntax with backward compatibility built in for abcde 2.7.
39 * Encoding to m4a container with FFmpeg or avconv. This allows
40 for alac encoding with FFmpeg's reverse engineered alac encoder.
41 * AAC encoding with fhgaacenc via Wine. Tagging is provided
42 by AtomicParsley which has been added back to abcde :). This
43 allows encoding with HE-AAC v2, unavailable with qaac.
44 * Support added for AAC encoding with qaac via Wine. This
45 also allows for Apple Lossless Audio Coding (alac) using
46 either qaac or refalac. This closes Issue 142, thanks to
47 Bernd Fischer-Krellenberg for the enhancement request.
48 * Grab year information too when using musicbrainz. Thanks to
49 Marco Hoppstaedter for the patch. Closes issue 10:
50 http://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10
52 -- Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:31:07 +0000
56 * Rewrite of abcde's mungefilename function. Thanks to
57 Andreas Kusalananda Kahari for this and also thanks
58 to Andrew Willis for the report which triggered the
59 rewrite. Thanks also to shughes for an earlier report.
60 This closes Issues 72 and 135.
61 * TRACKTOTAL now written to flac and ogg files. Thanks to
62 monkth for the notification. This resolves Issue 76.
63 * Support added for the downloading of album art. A huge
64 thank you to Johannes Gernemann who came forward with
65 the technique used and also the original patch. An equally
66 huge thanks to Richard who extended and greatly enhanced
67 the original patch. Detailed documentation added to the
68 abcde FAQ document although the sane defaults in place
69 will guarantee a good experience even for those who do
70 not read documentation! This closes Issue 33.
71 * Support added for ripping with the GNU Compact Disc
72 Input and Control library (libcdio) as requested by
73 both gentoo and NixOS. The utility used is cd-paranoia
74 and can best be called from a conf file as follows:
76 CDROMREADERSYNTAX=libcdio
77 CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia
78 CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40 --verbose"
80 with the CD_PARANOIA variable giving the correct path
81 to cd-paranoia. I believe that cd-paranoia uses the same
82 options as cdparanoia but if I am proven incorrect this
83 will need to be rectified...
84 * Fix for encoding with bladeenc and usepipes.
85 * Fix for broken ripping with dagrab. Closes Issue 140.
86 * Fix for diskutil selecting wrong disk on OS X. Thanks
87 to Richard for this fix which closes Issue 139.
88 * Added some error checking and documentation for
89 the abcde-musicbrainz-tool. Thanks yet again to
90 Matthias Andree for this work! Closes issue 138.
91 * New variables for m4a/aac encoding options to be
92 manipulated in a users ~/.abcde.conf file:
93 1. FAACENCOPTS for faac encoding options
94 2. NEROAACENCOPTS for neroAacEnc options
95 3. FDKAACENCOPTS for fdkaacenc options
96 Note that these options replace the now obsolete AACENCOPTS.
97 * Check added for neroAacTag when encoding with neroAacEnc.
98 * Several additions to usepipes with the following encoders
102 3. mpcenc: Musepack SV8
107 The cd ripper cdda2wav (icedax) has also been added.
108 * Ripping and encoding with 'usepipes' fixed. This fix
110 * Suggested encoding options for mp3enc added to the sample
111 abcde.conf. Last release of mp3enc in 1998 but it still
112 works flawlessly with a modern abcde!
113 * Suggested encoding options for l3enc added to the sample
114 abcde.conf. Congratulations to abcde which in 2015 still
115 works with l3enc which saw its final release in 1997!
116 * Fix for -o option use with options and multiple outputs.
117 This allows for commandline options such as the following:
118 abcde -o 'flac:-8,mp3:-b 320'
119 Thanks to Matthias Andree for yet another quality patch!
120 This closes Issue 136.
121 * Support added for ReplayGain with WavPack encoding.
122 * Fix for MusePack to allow the use of the SV8 ReplayGain
123 application 'mpcgain'.
124 * Monkey's Audio (ape) encoding added. Tagging is with
125 Robert Muth's apetag. Thanks to Shantiq for testing.
126 * Simplify Opus tagging.This closes Issue 133.
127 * Allow 'clean' when OUTPUTTYPE=wav, broken for some time.
128 Thanks to Roger rogerx.oss<at>gmail.com for showing the
129 problem and demonstrating the fix. This closes Issue 94.
130 * Clarification that CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE=y is required for
131 local CDDB search. Thanks to Reuben Thomas for the
132 notification. This partially resolves Issue 121.
133 * AtomicParsley removed from debian/control, WavPack added.
134 * Details of abcde's handling of faac compiled with and
135 without mp4v2 added as a new entry to FAQs.
136 * Fix to allow display of the 'date' meta tag generated
137 by eyeD3 in vlc, Audacious and friends.
138 Thanks to Reuben Thomas. This closes Issue 126.
139 * Fix for flac floating point error. Thanks to rwvtveer
140 for the patch which closes Issue 113.
141 * Formalised 3 methods of mp3 tagging using ID3TAGV:
142 1.id3v2.4 using eyeD3 (set in abcde as the default)
143 2.id3v2.3 using id3v2
145 Thanks to Adriaan for this patch which fixes issue 101.
146 * Support for WavPack added. Closes issue 123.
147 * Fix for mp3 encoding with different versions of eyeD3.
148 Thanks to Matthias Andree for this patch.
149 * Major AAC encoding cleanup, including addition of the fdkaac encoder.
150 Thanks to Doug Mcmahon for assistance with this.
152 -- Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:27:52 +0000
156 * Fix finding $CDROM on OS X. Thanks to niederstrasser for the patch.
158 * USEID3 and USEID3V2 variables are unused now, so remove them. Thanks
159 to vskytta for the patch. Closes issue 73.
160 * Clean up movement to eyeD3, remove id3v2 remnants. Thanks to vskytta
161 for the patch. Closes issue 74.
162 * Fix infinite loop if cddb fails. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
163 patch. Closes: #687038 in Debian
164 * Switch from Musepack SV7 to SV8. Thanks to Andrew Strong for the
166 * Allow aac encoding with neroAacEnc. Thanks to atheren for the patch.
168 * Allow opus encoding with opusenc. Thanks to Tomasz Golinski for the
169 patch. Closes issue 70.
170 * Fix typo: s/CUEWAVEFILE/CUEWAVFILE/ so that abcde.mkcue should now
171 produce working cue files. Closes issue 78.
172 * Remove no-op -q option. Closes issue 106. Thanks to vskytta for the
174 * Fix issue 112: perl encoding pragma deprecation. Thanks to Alex Corrie
176 * Fix option parsing for multiple output formats. Thanks to
177 matthias.andree@gmx.de for the patch. Closes issue 115.
178 * Fix eyeD3 tagging for cddb entries without year. Thanks to vskytta for
179 the patch. Closes issue 107
180 * Add mention of CD-TEXT support in the man page. Closes issue 102.
181 * Make Y/N prompting more consistent. Closes issue 95
182 * Remove the no-op -B option. Closes: #426531 in Debian
183 * Document the need to escape parentheses in tag comments.
184 Closes: #256941 in Debian.
185 * Concatenate option steps on -t/-T option. Thanks to Charles
186 Steinkuehler for the patch. Closes: #391294 in Debian
187 * Try to use bsd-mailx where possible to force UTF-8 for cddb-tool mail
188 submissions. If not possible, attempt to force UTF-8 via the
189 environment and fall back to mail instead. Closes: #756289 in Debian,
192 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:17:24 -0700
196 * Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
197 for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
198 * Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
199 for the patch. Closes issue 50.
200 * Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
201 tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)
203 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:11 +0100
207 * Sort options alphabetically (Closes issue 58).
208 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
209 * Add Recommends: mailx in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
210 users. Closes: #607147
211 * Fix encoding call for m4a. (Closes issue 31). Closes: #449045
212 * Fix do_musicbrainz() for the case where there are no matches.
213 * When using Musicbrainz, checksum and only output unique matches for an
214 album. Closes: #669143
215 * Add Recommends: atomicparsley in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
217 * Remove documentation of the old "-R" option for recursive searching of
218 local CDDB data, it's now enabled always. (Closes issue 57).
219 * Fix use of awk (sub instead of substr) when generating CRLF line endings.
221 * Make sure that ABCDETEMPDIR is quoted so we can deal with spaces in
222 file and directory names. Closes issue 64. Thanks to
223 richard.security.consultant for the patch, adapted slightly.
224 * Tweak do_cdtext() so it works on OS X too. Closes issue 65.
225 Thanks to richard.security.consultant for the patch.
226 * Change cddb-tool to use bash to make sure that echo -n works.
228 * Fixes for lots of spelling mistakes from vskytta. Closes issue 68.
229 * For safety across different systems, avoid using "sed -i".
232 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:12:11 +0100
237 * Re-fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
238 Thanks to vskytta for pointing out the problem - patch not applied
240 * Quickly re-release as 2.5.2
242 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:17:14 +0100
247 * Several patches for improved Musicbrainz support from Martin Michlmayr:
248 + add musicbrainz support for FLAC files with embedded cue files.
250 + Don't submit to CDDB server when using musicbrainz
252 + Don't tag CDDB string with musicbrainz id
254 * Fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
255 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
256 * Fix aac tagging. (Closes issue 7).
257 Thanks to Andrew Strong for forwarding the patch.
258 * Add ATOMICPARSLEY=AtomicParsley (Closes issue 37).
259 * On OS X, switch from disktool to diskutil. (Closes issue 43).
260 * Updates for CD device detection:
261 + Look for /dev/sr0, in case /dev/cdrom doesn't exist.
263 + Add suggested diskutil code to auto-detect the CD on OS X.
265 * Check that we have $CDDBTOOL before we start. (Closes issue 27).
266 * Change the meaning of EXTRAVERBOSE; previously, it was a y/n option
267 to make things more verbose. Add extra levels of verbosity (0, 1, 2 so
268 far) and a new vvecho() function for callers to use.
269 * With EXTRAVERBOSE==2 or more, make run_command() print out each
270 command as it's run. (Closes issue 39).
271 * If we don't find any CDDB or Musicbrainz information for the CD, try
272 to extract CD-Text information to populate the cddbinfo template.
274 * Try to give more helpful error messages when we can't parse the
275 command line, and exit rather than carry on. (Closes issue 51).
278 * replace deprecated egrep with grep -E (Closes issue 24).
279 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
280 * remove -o 0 options from make install (Closes issue 17).
281 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
282 * clean up indentation on older changelog entries
283 * remove tarball target from Makefile since dir structure
284 has changed now that we use subversion.
285 * improve presentation of options/defaults when asking a question
288 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:35:00 +0100
293 * Add support for Musicbrainz using a perl helper script.
295 * Tweak man page. Thanks to Mats Erik Andersson for the patch.
297 * Make the -q option work again. Thanks to A Mennucc for the patch.
300 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:29:45 +0100
305 * Fix Cue file always references "dummy.wav" bug
306 patch from Chris Chiappa (Closes: #459928).
307 * Whitespace cleanup, replace single perl instance with sed
308 (Charles Steinkuehler)
309 * Fix leadin/leadout computation for cue files broken bug
310 Patch from Martin Michlmayr (Closes: #582175).
312 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 29 May 2010 09:43:01 +0100
317 * In manpage note a 2nd use for LOWDISK (or '-l' switch)
318 it's faster and better on scratchy disks (Closes: #426343).
319 * Add configurable options for replaygain tools.
320 * Fix syntax error in tagged speex command (Closes: #554406)
321 Ubuntu patch by Michael Helmling.
322 * Fix mp3 tagging fails for single author albums (Closes: #554030)
324 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:09:47 +0000
329 * Corrected REDIR redirection, this time with ifs instead of variable
330 substitution, which did not work (Closes: #527191).
331 * Added TPE2 for Various artists definition (Closes: #521669).
332 * Incorporate syntax error fix patch from Andrew Ruder.
333 * Fix formatting for track number tagging.
334 * Replace dependency on cdda2wav with icedax since the former has
337 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:33:33 +0100
341 * Remove svn Revision tag from version.
342 * Correct homepage URL in README (Closes: #526165).
343 * Fix typos (Closes: #435605, #435606).
344 * Fix misspelling of comma in script and manpage (Closes: #435603).
345 * Fix Writable temp directories not owned/writeable (Closes: #143552).
346 * Fix broken range code, patch from Charles Steinkuehler (Closes: #389981).
347 * Remove unneeded escapes in cddb-tool URLs.
348 Add support for freedb2 (Closes: #391110).
349 another patch from Charles Steinkuehler.
350 * Fix Endless loop possible when mp3gain asks clipping question bug
352 * Update Vcs-Svn: tag in debian/control.
353 * Add a recommends for vorbis-tools (Closes: #392843).
354 * Update standards version to 3.8.2 (no changes required).
355 * Fix debian/preinst not to ignore errors.
357 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:32:30 +0100
363 * The "It took me a long time to get this release out" release.
364 * abcde.1: remove -M in favour of "-a cue" (Closes: #382614, #396505).
365 * Added a check for a DOCUE already set in the command line
367 * Added -q <Q> as a quality option.
368 * PREGAP was not set in some situations (Closes: #390170).
369 * Added -nv to wget for "no verbose" output, to avoid wget complaining it
370 cannot be quiet and verbose at the same time if "verbose = on" is set in
371 ~/.wgetrc (Closes: #388715).
372 * Added XS-Vcs-Svn: field to control file.
373 * Added some hints if we are using Debian for what packages need to be
374 installed if their binaries are not found.
375 * Spelling mistakes corrected (thanks to Ville Skytta).
376 * Unset GREP_OPTIONS to avoid things like printing number in the beginning of
377 the line (Closes: #383771).
378 * Default answer to erase a playlist was not working (thanks to Charles
379 Steinkuehler) (Closes: #395108).
380 * Corrected man page wrapping. Thanks to Edward J. Shornock
382 * Adds DISCNUMBER to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC when using -W.
383 * Minor typos (Closes: #458995).
384 * Added AtomicParley for AAC encoding. Thanks to Bill Adams.
385 * Added by Marc Staveley:
387 - track comments if null and present in CDDB.
388 * Corrected copyright information (Closes: #516535).
391 * Added new uploader (Closes: #529695).
392 * Fix Lintian warning for make-clean-error.
393 * Fix FSF address in debian/copyright.
394 * Fix binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep lintian warning.
395 * Add homepage: field to debian/control
396 * Update standards version to 3.8.0
397 * Remove debian/conffiles (it is not needed).
398 * Fix syntax error in abcde (missing fi).
400 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:50:42 +0100
404 * Default to UNICODE (UTF8) tags and comments (Closes: #282332).
405 - Added CDDBPROTO option in config file (Closes: #349951)
406 * Added a missing "INDEX 01" entry for CUE sheet creation.
407 * Avoid completing the encoding of files if we aborted previously.
408 * Embed the CUE sheet if we have a cuesheet file and we have a single FLAC
409 file, even if we are not tagging. This way we can use the file as a source
410 even if it is not tagged/named properly.
411 * Fails to quote filenames properly (Closes: #355296)
412 * Introduced VA/ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT.
413 * Added a missing check for AACENCODER.
414 * Updated config file with some new AAC bits.
415 * Updated FSF address.
416 * Corrected NetBSD options for ftp (Thanks to Marius).
417 * The final 2.4 will have "cuefile" as an action instead of as a flag.
418 * Create the cuefile when extracting from a FLAC file.
419 * Small bugs (Charles Steinkuehler):
420 - Added missing quotes (Closes: #375710)
421 - toolame is included in Debian as default MP3 encoder
422 - Use IFS to preserve spaces when adding metadata to a cuefile
423 * Small documentation changes:
424 - abcde.1 (Closes: #364978)
425 * The following entries have in common that both add an internal cue2discid
426 function. I will evaluate which one is more accurate and decide which one
427 to use. Right now they are not conflicting:
428 - Added internal mkcue and cue2discid functions (Charles Steinkuehler) and
429 add a check for internal abcde.<function> to make sure we are using the
430 correct version (not sure if needed ;)
431 - Added an internal implementation of cue2discid, so there is no need for
432 an external program to do the conversion. Thanks to Michael (sorry, his
433 mail does not have a surname).
434 * cue2discid is now an internal function, so no need for including the
435 python script in the path (Closes: #378407)
436 * cddb-tool.1 typo (Thanks to A. Costa) (Closes: #351775)
437 * abcde.1 typo (Thanks to David L. Anselmi) (Closes: #364978)
438 * Set proper nice values to not separate encoding and reading in the pipes
439 situation, while having a high priority process running in the system.
440 Also, set proper nice values to tagging tasks. Reading should remain as
441 the default higher priority task in the abcde flow (Closes: #359156)
442 * Standards bumped to 3.7.2.1, no changes needed.
444 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:26:56 +0300
448 * Repaired multiple CDDB entries when recursive search is active.
449 * Patch from A. Costa to clean some typos (Closes: #351774).
451 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 07 Feb 2006 23:48:00 +0200
455 * Repaired multiple output encoding (Closes: #351362).
456 * Added missing space on a [] test statement.
457 * Added "default" action, so that one can add things on top of what we do
458 regularly, without having to list everything: "-a default,playlist" works.
459 * Restored all the > /dev/null instead of using grep -q, since it is not
461 * Added Solaris OS entry, in case we need to define things for it.
463 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 05 Feb 2006 15:24:00 +0200
467 * The "Mao es nuestro indiscutible lider" release.
468 * Check the CDROMREADER options we have in Debian which we depend on. Thanks
469 to Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo for finding the error.
470 * New recursive option for local CDDB repositories, to cope with other
471 players saving the entries.
472 * Brand new CD backup procedure: rip a CD into a single FLAC trac with an
473 embedded cuesheet using "-1 -M -o flac" and proceed to rip your tracks
474 from the obtained file using "-d file.flac -o <format>". It needs
475 cue2discid script from the examples directory to work. OH! If you manage
476 to get it working with bash, we can get rid of the python dependency...
477 * Initial steps to make abcde working with musicbrainz, although it is not
479 * Added a missing $ in a variable (Closes: #345629).
480 * Added -p to the mkdir's for $ABCDETEMPDIR (Closes: #345630).
481 * Added iconv + converted to utf-8 the charset of a ready-to-send CDDB
482 entry (Closes: #345708).
483 * Added AAC (Mpeg4) support.
484 * Small cd-discid update.
486 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:27:40 +0200
490 * Missing bits in the 2.3.99.1 changelog:
491 - Man page: added information about -z (Debug option).
492 - Corrected config file with the BATCHNORM/NOGAP split
494 - Uses /bin/bash for the time being... We need to get some substitution
495 functions/operations for the bashisms we have: Closes: #337139.
496 * Config bits with corrected typos
497 * Adding musicbrainz support. First bits.
498 * Reworked comparison for numerical answer when selecting a CDDB output.
501 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:46:58 +0200
505 * Both -z and -C unset EJECTCD to avoid ejecting the CD when a) we are
506 debuging and b) we are not using the CD.
507 * If we are not reading the CD, set "loud" to see all the output messages
508 (that is, in most of the cases, the first encoding).
509 * Added -f to force some events that otherwise would erase files from our
510 current run. In the standard configuration ("OUTPUT=vorbis") the following
511 actions will need a "-f" to force the last one:
512 abcde -a read,encode -o ogg,flac
513 abcde -a tag,move,clean
514 During the second run abcde should complain that it is trying to erase the
515 working directory while the it has not performed any action on the FLAC
516 files, which we encoded previously.
517 * Convert the old cdparanoia-audio-tracks file into a status entry to avoid
518 eating files from previous rounds using an early version (Closes: #341050)
520 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:27:20 +0200
524 * Added diff choice to CDDB entries ("1,4").
525 * Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to allow the user to show YEAR and GENRE in the
527 * Suggests mkcue, and erase old cdgrab info since sarge is out.
528 * Changed cdparanoia-audio-tracks to use the status file to save the data.
529 * Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
530 cuesheet as a source of tracks.
531 * Added -z for easy and quick debug.
532 * BATCH has been split into two options: BATCHNORM which allows, by using
533 -b, to use the -a normalize in all the files at once, and NOGAP, that by
534 using -g, introduces the lame's --nogap extension.
535 * Added replygain using the appropriate tags with Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC.
536 * Replaygain is an action, not a flag, since it can be performed individually
537 in the chain of events.
538 * debian/{rules,control}:
539 - Changed the target directory from tmp to abcde, to accommodate to compat
541 - Bump standards to 3.6.2.1. No changes needed.
542 * Added "decho" as a DEBUG output for some specific debug variables.
543 * Added USEPIPES file, with information about how to add Unix pipes support.
544 * Added one more checking for PIPES*_* unset variables (which means support
545 is not added to abcde).
546 * Added toolame as an optional MP3 encoder.
548 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:05:32 +0300
552 * Some patches from Tom Spindler <dogcow () babymeat ! com>
553 - Added some quoting to the md5sum checkings, since the variables could be
555 - NetBSD bits to use ftp instead on anything else to fetch stuff.
556 * do_playlist needs to convert the OUTPUT to the CONTAINERS to avoid ending
557 with playlists pointing to .vorbis files (Closes: #326487).
559 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:50:07 +0300
563 * Rips done in a single track were getting tagged as Various. Corrected.
564 * Possibly eliminated some bashisms from using a variable as a variable
565 (Closes: #324399). Thanks to A Costa.
567 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:35 +0300
571 * Too fast... I forgot to make the tarball and change the version strings in
572 several places. Fixed.
574 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:44:37 +0300
578 * The new "I knew there were going to be bugs" upstream release!
579 * MKCUE needs to be passed some $CDROM as an option, or otherwise it will
580 not read the CDROM, in case is not /dev/cdrom.
581 * Also, make the CUEREADER a bit more general, since we might be using other
584 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:44:20 +0300
588 * New upstream release!
589 * Defining the tracknumber now resets the first track if given a number
590 different than 1 (that is: abcde -T 1 2-10 creates songs 1 to 9).
591 * Modified the FAQ to reflect the changes on Marillat's repo
593 * Should be "space" safe: works properly when the working directory contains
594 a space (Closes: #147493).
595 * Repared the CD query for the discid code. When failing to read a disc,
596 actually report that there might be no disc in the drive.
597 * Right now, walk over the different encoders we Depends: on in Debian and
598 use the one available: if a user has a FLAC encoder, abcde will no install
599 vorbis-tools, so it will fail to run out of the box (Closes: #321216)
600 * Added CUE support. Still experimental...
601 * Added FLAC on Ogg. Still not activated, since we cannot get comments added
602 as a post-process action.
603 * Applied patches from Fedora Core (Credit goes to Nils Philippsen
604 <nphilipp@redhat.com>)
605 * Added a post_read() function to be executed before ejecting the CD.
606 * Typos reported by A Costa corrected (Closes: #311463)
607 * Problem with abcde being run in a directory with files containing only
608 numbers solved (Closes: #313628).
609 * vorbiscomment uses now "-R" (Closes: #303566).
610 * "-t" and "-T" use the first track as a starter for the track list.
612 * Added CDPARANOIACDROMBUS option to define -d in case of using IDE and SCSI
613 in case of using ide-scsi emulation layer (Closes: #290768).
614 * Define metaflac in abcde.conf (Closes: #303555)
615 * Added the default "-f" option to the configuration file, to represent the
616 actual default option.
618 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:47:27 +0300
622 * Double quotation added to solve parsing * as a wildcard (Closes: #302904).
623 Thanks to Christian Grigis for the patch. Also (Closes: #268088).
625 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:18:03 +0000
629 * CDPARANOIAOUTPUT missed some quotes.
630 * Removed some useless lines.
631 * If BATCH is used with ONETRACK, disable BATCH.
632 * Small typos with CDROM comparisons.
633 * Logic for CDROM variable improved.
634 * Version bumped to 2.2.5 and targeted to Sarge.
636 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 2 Apr 2005 21:05:18 +0300
640 * Changed the way we call flac, to adapt to the new times:
641 --import-vc-from= to --import-tags-from.
642 * DOSPLAYLIST was not included in the list of options.
643 * Options passed to the encoder by using <-o ogg:"-b 192"> are now
644 supported. One can modify the way abcde encodes just for the current CD.
645 * Unfortunatelly I forgot to add the starting number for tags in Ogg. For
646 MP3 is a bit more difficult, since it needs changing the X/YY code.
647 * Also, the order of the tags in metaflac is important for the utf8 names.
648 Thanks to Frederik Juul Christiani (Closes: #297482)
649 * Added CDROMID in the .conf file, for reader programs that need it
651 * Added a check for cdparanoia when encountering data-only CDs.
653 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:14:24 +0200
658 - suggest normalize-audio, since it changed its name (Closes: #287674).
659 * Use the default while erasing an existing playlist (Closes: #288835).
660 * Does not destroy track information when a track contains "=" in the name
663 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:35:46 +0200
667 * Quotes missing when evaluating a value (Closes: #284018).
669 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:20:18 +0200
673 * Spotted and solved a problem with the way the data tracks were detected
676 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:47:54 +0200
680 * New release! Let's see if abcde 2.2 gets into Sarge.
681 * Added support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoding. Although I am trying to
682 get 2.2 for Debian Sarge release, mpc seems safe enough to introduce. See
683 corecodec.org for code.
684 * Some POSIX shell corrections (making the code more portable). Thanks to
685 Guillem Jover for pointing the problem out.
686 * CDYEAR is also passed to do_move(), so one can use it for sorting the
688 * Small MacOS X fix, allowing directories with "()" to work. Thanks to Evan
690 - On the MacOS X, I still do not know if abcde works correctly. If does
691 not, please, drop a note. Or else.
692 * DOSPLAYLIST also changes "/" with "\".
693 * DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
694 the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
695 work (at least there is no support for them in abcde)
696 (Closes: #112692, #117412).
697 * New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
698 template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
699 * New options for when the PLAYLIST already exists: erase, append or keep.
700 * Bug fixes along the code:
701 - abcde.1 corrections and additions
702 - abcde corrections and code reorganization. abcde now exits earlier if
703 some of the options are incompatible. Also the actions are set as
704 variables earlier, so we use less calls to external tools.
705 - abcde.conf additions
706 * The GENRE is munged now in its own mungegenre function, so that no more
707 upper-to-lowercase is done (forced) except if the default is used.
708 * Examples added to the tarball and /usr/share/doc/abcde/examples with two
709 scripts to make abcde kind-of-a ripper daemon.
710 * Changed to experimental to have an stable 2.1.x version in Sarge.
711 * Add CDDB information to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files (Closes: #265358).
712 * Added INTERACTIVE option. Set it to "n" and there you go, without user
714 * Changes normalize to normalize-audio (Closes: #267053)
715 * Copes with wav files being erased by the ripping tool.
716 * Small patch to support ()'s in the path under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones
717 for noticing and sending the patch.
718 * Added -w for COMMENT seed. Used to give a comment to a given CD.
719 * Option "-t <number>" added to modify the numbering from a starting point
720 (Closes: #95828). Geez! That is low bug number...
721 * Added -T to modify also the tag entries on the songs. Currently available
722 for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
723 * Removes trailing spaces (Closes: #280382).
724 * TRACKNAME now combines multi-lines from long CDDB entries.
726 - s/dh_installmanpages/dh_installman/
728 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:11:22 +0200
732 * Changed normalize with normalize-audio (Closes: #267053).
734 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:16:46 +0000
738 * The "Let's have a good abcde in Sarge" release.
739 * The mungefile() function changes * with + by default to avoid creating
740 directories with the start expanded to the files found in the current
741 directory. abcde2.2 will most likelly contain a better workaround.
742 * Correct default OUTPUTFORMAT in man page (Closes: #250649)
744 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:46 +0300
748 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
751 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
755 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
756 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
758 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
762 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
765 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
769 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
770 spinning at high speed.
771 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
772 tray (Closes: #137548).
773 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
774 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
775 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
777 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
778 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
779 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
781 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
782 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
783 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
784 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
785 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
786 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
788 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
792 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
794 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
796 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
798 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
799 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
800 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
801 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
802 and wondering is somethins is happening).
803 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
805 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
809 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
811 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
815 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
816 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
817 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
818 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
819 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
821 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
825 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
826 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
827 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
828 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
829 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
830 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
831 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
833 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
834 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
835 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
836 with the reports I have received.
838 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
842 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
843 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
844 we will not try to be very smart.
845 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
847 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
849 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
850 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
851 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
852 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
853 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
855 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
859 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
860 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
861 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
862 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
864 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
865 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
866 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
867 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
868 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
869 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
870 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
871 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
872 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
874 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
875 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
876 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
877 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
878 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
880 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
881 file is actually there.
883 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
887 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
888 * One head was missing a "-n"
889 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
890 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
892 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
896 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
897 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
899 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
901 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
902 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
905 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
909 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
910 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
911 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
912 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
914 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
915 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
917 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
921 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
922 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
923 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
924 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
925 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
926 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
927 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
928 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
930 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
932 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
936 * Small fixes and patches.
937 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
938 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
939 + small bug with batch encoding
940 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
941 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
942 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
944 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
945 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
946 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
947 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
948 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
949 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
950 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
952 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
957 + COMMENT should work now.
958 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
960 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
961 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
963 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
967 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
968 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
969 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
970 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
972 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
974 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
975 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
977 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
978 missing): Closes: #191475.
980 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
984 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
985 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
986 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
987 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
988 can always split the files once they are created.
989 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
990 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
991 of files (Closes: #111627).
992 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
993 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
994 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
995 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
996 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
997 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
999 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
1005 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
1009 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
1010 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
1012 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
1013 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
1014 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
1016 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
1020 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
1021 * Few more doc update bits.
1022 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
1023 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
1025 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
1026 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
1028 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
1031 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
1032 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
1033 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
1034 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
1035 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
1036 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
1037 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
1039 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
1040 * NetBSD patches applied:
1041 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
1042 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
1043 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
1044 + multiple output and error checking
1045 + multiple lists support
1046 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the beginning.
1049 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
1052 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
1053 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
1054 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
1055 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
1056 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
1057 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
1058 Norris, closes: #126327
1059 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
1060 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
1061 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
1062 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
1064 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
1067 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
1068 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
1070 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
1074 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
1075 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
1076 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
1077 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
1078 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
1079 closes: #111478, #111500
1080 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
1082 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
1084 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
1085 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
1086 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
1087 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
1088 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
1090 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
1091 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
1093 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
1095 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
1099 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
1101 * Minor documentation updates
1103 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
1107 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
1108 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
1109 containing spaces, closes: #89682
1110 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
1111 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
1112 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
1113 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
1114 status checking situations, closes: #93395
1115 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
1116 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
1118 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
1120 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
1121 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
1122 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
1123 with their exit codes before aborting.
1124 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
1126 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
1127 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
1129 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
1133 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
1134 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
1135 Beyerlein for noticing this
1137 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
1141 * The Groundshaking Release
1142 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
1143 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
1144 discs named in a different format
1145 * Accommodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
1146 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
1147 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
1148 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
1149 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
1151 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
1152 longer have the CD handy
1153 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
1154 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
1155 * More documentation updates
1157 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
1161 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
1163 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
1164 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
1165 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
1166 * cddb-tool template output fixes
1167 * Yet more documentation updates
1168 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
1169 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
1171 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
1172 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
1173 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
1175 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
1179 * The Squishy Release
1180 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
1181 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
1182 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
1183 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
1185 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
1189 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
1190 * Some documentation updates
1191 * mungefilename quoting fix
1192 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
1194 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
1198 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
1199 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
1200 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
1201 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
1202 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
1203 * OUTPUTDIR works again
1205 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
1210 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
1211 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
1212 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
1214 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
1218 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
1219 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
1220 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
1221 for non-interactivity.
1222 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
1223 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
1224 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
1225 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
1226 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
1227 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
1229 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
1230 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
1231 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
1232 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
1233 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
1235 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
1239 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
1240 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
1241 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
1242 * Resuming operation works better now
1243 * Patched up offline usage again
1244 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
1245 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
1247 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
1250 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
1255 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
1256 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
1257 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
1258 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
1259 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
1260 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
1261 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
1263 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
1267 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
1268 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
1269 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
1270 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
1271 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
1273 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
1277 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
1278 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
1280 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
1281 (Thanks: Vincent Ho)
1282 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
1285 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
1289 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
1290 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
1291 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
1293 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
1297 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
1298 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
1299 * README file URL fixes/updates
1301 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
1305 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
1307 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
1311 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
1312 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
1313 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
1314 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
1315 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
1317 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
1321 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
1322 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
1323 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
1324 local caching name servers
1325 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
1327 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
1331 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
1332 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
1333 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
1335 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
1339 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
1340 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
1341 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
1342 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
1344 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
1348 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
1349 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
1350 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
1351 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
1352 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
1353 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
1354 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
1355 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
1357 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
1358 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
1361 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
1365 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
1366 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
1367 relative paths for playlist files
1368 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
1369 playlist data with things like URL's
1370 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
1371 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
1372 stderr as it should).
1374 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
1378 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
1380 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
1384 * Removed bashisms (again :)
1386 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
1390 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
1393 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
1397 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
1398 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
1399 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
1400 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
1401 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
1403 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
1404 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
1406 The program name is now 'abcde'.
1408 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
1412 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
1413 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
1414 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
1416 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
1420 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
1421 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
1422 * Added cddb-tool manpage
1424 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
1428 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
1430 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
1434 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
1435 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
1436 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
1437 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
1438 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
1439 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
1442 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
1446 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
1447 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
1449 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
1453 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
1454 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
1456 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
1460 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
1461 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
1462 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
1463 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
1464 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
1465 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
1466 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accommodates the recent
1467 cdparanoia package namechange.
1468 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
1469 Norris for tracking this down.
1471 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
1475 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
1476 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
1478 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
1479 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
1480 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
1481 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
1483 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
1484 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
1485 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
1487 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
1489 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
1493 * Fixes wget calling method
1494 * -l/LOWDISK documented
1495 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
1496 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
1498 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
1502 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
1505 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
1509 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
1510 parallelized session.
1511 * MAXPROCS added to config file
1512 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
1513 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
1515 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
1519 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
1520 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
1521 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
1523 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
1525 * Output fix for TOC printing
1526 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
1528 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
1532 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
1534 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
1538 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
1539 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
1541 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
1545 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
1547 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
1548 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
1549 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
1551 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
1555 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
1556 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
1557 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
1559 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
1563 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
1564 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
1565 (I wish mutt did this :)
1566 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
1567 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
1568 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
1569 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
1571 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
1575 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
1576 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
1577 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
1578 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
1579 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
1580 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
1582 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
1588 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999