3 * Support added for encoding to MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2)
4 with twolame. Tagging with mid3v2.
5 * Encoding to WavPack with FFmpeg. Some slight changes to WavPack
6 syntax with backward compatibility built in for abcde 2.7.
7 * Encoding to m4a container with FFmpeg or avconv. This allows
8 for alac encoding with FFmpeg's reverse engineered alac encoder.
9 * AAC encoding with fhgaacenc via Wine. Tagging is provided
10 by AtomicParsley which has been added back to abcde :). This
11 allows encoding with HE-AAC v2, unavailable with qaac.
12 * Support added for AAC encoding with qaac via Wine. This
13 also allows for Apple Lossless Audio Coding (alac) using
14 either qaac or refalac. This closes Issue 142, thanks to
15 Bernd Fischer-Krellenberg for the enhancement request.
19 * Rewrite of abcde's mungefilename function. Thanks to
20 Andreas Kusalananda Kahari for this and also thanks
21 to Andrew Willis for the report which triggered the
22 rewrite. Thanks also to shughes for an earlier report.
23 This closes Issues 72 and 135.
24 * TRACKTOTAL now written to flac and ogg files. Thanks to
25 monkth for the notification. This resolves Issue 76.
26 * Support added for the downloading of album art. A huge
27 thank you to Johannes Gernemann who came forward with
28 the technique used and also the original patch. An equally
29 huge thanks to Richard who extended and greatly enhanced
30 the original patch. Detailed documentation added to the
31 abcde FAQ document although the sane defaults in place
32 will guarantee a good experience even for those who do
33 not read documentation! This closes Issue 33.
34 * Support added for ripping with the GNU Compact Disc
35 Input and Control library (libcdio) as requested by
36 both gentoo and NixOS. The utility used is cd-paranoia
37 and can best be called from a conf file as follows:
39 CDROMREADERSYNTAX=libcdio
40 CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia
41 CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40 --verbose"
43 with the CD_PARANOIA variable giving the correct path
44 to cd-paranoia. I believe that cd-paranoia uses the same
45 options as cdparanoia but if I am proven incorrect this
46 will need to be rectified...
47 * Fix for encoding with bladeenc and usepipes.
48 * Fix for broken ripping with dagrab. Closes Issue 140.
49 * Fix for diskutil selecting wrong disk on OS X. Thanks
50 to Richard for this fix which closes Issue 139.
51 * Added some error checking and documentation for
52 the abcde-musicbrainz-tool. Thanks yet again to
53 Matthias Andree for this work! Closes issue 138.
54 * New variables for m4a/aac encoding options to be
55 manipulated in a users ~/.abcde.conf file:
56 1. FAACENCOPTS for faac encoding options
57 2. NEROAACENCOPTS for neroAacEnc options
58 3. FDKAACENCOPTS for fdkaacenc options
59 Note that these options replace the now obsolete AACENCOPTS.
60 * Check added for neroAacTag when encoding with neroAacEnc.
61 * Several additions to usepipes with the following encoders
65 3. mpcenc: Musepack SV8
70 The cd ripper cdda2wav (icedax) has also been added.
71 * Ripping and encoding with 'usepipes' fixed. This fix
73 * Suggested encoding options for mp3enc added to the sample
74 abcde.conf. Last release of mp3enc in 1998 but it still
75 works flawlessly with a modern abcde!
76 * Suggested encoding options for l3enc added to the sample
77 abcde.conf. Congratulations to abcde which in 2015 still
78 works with l3enc which saw its final release in 1997!
79 * Fix for -o option use with options and multiple outputs.
80 This allows for commandline options such as the following:
81 abcde -o 'flac:-8,mp3:-b 320'
82 Thanks to Matthias Andree for yet another quality patch!
83 This closes Issue 136.
84 * Support added for ReplayGain with WavPack encoding.
85 * Fix for MusePack to allow the use of the SV8 ReplayGain
86 application 'mpcgain'.
87 * Monkey's Audio (ape) encoding added. Tagging is with
88 Robert Muth's apetag. Thanks to Shantiq for testing.
89 * Simplify Opus tagging.This closes Issue 133.
90 * Allow 'clean' when OUTPUTTYPE=wav, broken for some time.
91 Thanks to Roger rogerx.oss<at>gmail.com for showing the
92 problem and demonstrating the fix. This closes Issue 94.
93 * Clarification that CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE=y is required for
94 local CDDB search. Thanks to Reuben Thomas for the
95 notification. This partially resolves Issue 121.
96 * AtomicParsley removed from debian/control, WavPack added.
97 * Details of abcde's handling of faac compiled with and
98 without mp4v2 added as a new entry to FAQs.
99 * Fix to allow display of the 'date' meta tag generated
100 by eyeD3 in vlc, Audacious and friends.
101 Thanks to Reuben Thomas. This closes Issue 126.
102 * Fix for flac floating point error. Thanks to rwvtveer
103 for the patch which closes Issue 113.
104 * Formalised 3 methods of mp3 tagging using ID3TAGV:
105 1.id3v2.4 using eyeD3 (set in abcde as the default)
106 2.id3v2.3 using id3v2
108 Thanks to Adriaan for this patch which fixes issue 101.
109 * Support for WavPack added. Closes issue 123.
110 * Fix for mp3 encoding with different versions of eyeD3.
111 Thanks to Matthias Andree for this patch.
112 * Major AAC encoding cleanup, including addition of the fdkaac encoder.
113 Thanks to Doug Mcmahon for assistance with this.
117 * Fix finding $CDROM on OS X. Thanks to niederstrasser for the patch.
119 * USEID3 and USEID3V2 variables are unused now, so remove them. Thanks
120 to vskytta for the patch. Closes issue 73.
121 * Clean up movement to eyeD3, remove id3v2 remnants. Thanks to vskytta
122 for the patch. Closes issue 74.
123 * Fix infinite loop if cddb fails. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
124 patch. Closes: #687038 in Debian
125 * Switch from Musepack SV7 to SV8. Thanks to Andrew Strong for the
127 * Allow aac encoding with neroAacEnc. Thanks to atheren for the patch.
129 * Allow opus encoding with opusenc. Thanks to Tomasz Golinski for the
130 patch. Closes issue 70.
131 * Fix typo: s/CUEWAVEFILE/CUEWAVFILE/ so that abcde.mkcue should now
132 produce working cue files. Closes issue 78.
133 * Remove no-op -q option. Closes issue 106. Thanks to vskytta for the
135 * Fix issue 112: perl encoding pragma deprecation. Thanks to Alex Corrie
137 * Fix option parsing for multiple output formats. Thanks to
138 matthias.andree@gmx.de for the patch. Closes issue 115.
139 * Fix eyeD3 tagging for cddb entries without year. Thanks to vskytta for
140 the patch. Closes issue 107
141 * Add mention of CD-TEXT support in the man page. Closes issue 102.
142 * Make Y/N prompting more consistent. Closes issue 95
143 * Remove the no-op -B option. Closes: #426531 in Debian
144 * Document the need to escape parentheses in tag comments.
145 Closes: #256941 in Debian.
146 * Concatenate option steps on -t/-T option. Thanks to Charles
147 Steinkuehler for the patch. Closes: #391294 in Debian
148 * Try to use bsd-mailx where possible to force UTF-8 for cddb-tool mail
149 submissions. If not possible, attempt to force UTF-8 via the
150 environment and fall back to mail instead. Closes: #756289 in Debian,
153 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:17:24 -0700
157 * Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
158 for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
159 * Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
160 for the patch. Closes issue 50.
161 * Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
162 tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)
164 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:11 +0100
168 * Sort options alphabetically (Closes issue 58).
169 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
170 * Add Recommends: mailx in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
171 users. Closes: #607147
172 * Fix encoding call for m4a. (Closes issue 31). Closes: #449045
173 * Fix do_musicbrainz() for the case where there are no matches.
174 * When using Musicbrainz, checksum and only output unique matches for an
175 album. Closes: #669143
176 * Add Recommends: atomicparsley in the Debian packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
178 * Remove documentation of the old "-R" option for recursive searching of
179 local CDDB data, it's now enabled always. (Closes issue 57).
180 * Fix use of awk (sub instead of substr) when generating CRLF line endings.
182 * Make sure that ABCDETEMPDIR is quoted so we can deal with spaces in
183 file and directory names. Closes issue 64. Thanks to
184 richard.security.consultant for the patch, adapted slightly.
185 * Tweak do_cdtext() so it works on OS X too. Closes issue 65.
186 Thanks to richard.security.consultant for the patch.
187 * Change cddb-tool to use bash to make sure that echo -n works.
189 * Fixes for lots of spelling mistakes from vskytta. Closes issue 68.
190 * For safety across different systems, avoid using "sed -i".
193 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:12:11 +0100
198 * Re-fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
199 Thanks to vskytta for pointing out the problem - patch not applied
201 * Quickly re-release as 2.5.2
203 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:17:14 +0100
208 * Several patches for improved Musicbrainz support from Martin Michlmayr:
209 + add musicbrainz support for FLAC files with embedded cue files.
211 + Don't submit to CDDB server when using musicbrainz
213 + Don't tag CDDB string with musicbrainz id
215 * Fix speex tagging. (Closes issue 19).
216 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
217 * Fix aac tagging. (Closes issue 7).
218 Thanks to Andrew Strong for forwarding the patch.
219 * Add ATOMICPARSLEY=AtomicParsley (Closes issue 37).
220 * On OS X, switch from disktool to diskutil. (Closes issue 43).
221 * Updates for CD device detection:
222 + Look for /dev/sr0, in case /dev/cdrom doesn't exist.
224 + Add suggested diskutil code to auto-detect the CD on OS X.
226 * Check that we have $CDDBTOOL before we start. (Closes issue 27).
227 * Change the meaning of EXTRAVERBOSE; previously, it was a y/n option
228 to make things more verbose. Add extra levels of verbosity (0, 1, 2 so
229 far) and a new vvecho() function for callers to use.
230 * With EXTRAVERBOSE==2 or more, make run_command() print out each
231 command as it's run. (Closes issue 39).
232 * If we don't find any CDDB or Musicbrainz information for the CD, try
233 to extract CD-Text information to populate the cddbinfo template.
235 * Try to give more helpful error messages when we can't parse the
236 command line, and exit rather than carry on. (Closes issue 51).
239 * replace deprecated egrep with grep -E (Closes issue 24).
240 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
241 * remove -o 0 options from make install (Closes issue 17).
242 Thanks to vskytta for the patch.
243 * clean up indentation on older changelog entries
244 * remove tarball target from Makefile since dir structure
245 has changed now that we use subversion.
246 * improve presentation of options/defaults when asking a question
249 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:35:00 +0100
254 * Add support for Musicbrainz using a perl helper script.
256 * Tweak man page. Thanks to Mats Erik Andersson for the patch.
258 * Make the -q option work again. Thanks to A Mennucc for the patch.
261 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:29:45 +0100
266 * Fix Cue file always references "dummy.wav" bug
267 patch from Chris Chiappa (Closes: #459928).
268 * Whitespace cleanup, replace single perl instance with sed
269 (Charles Steinkuehler)
270 * Fix leadin/leadout computation for cue files broken bug
271 Patch from Martin Michlmayr (Closes: #582175).
273 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 29 May 2010 09:43:01 +0100
278 * In manpage note a 2nd use for LOWDISK (or '-l' switch)
279 it's faster and better on scratchy disks (Closes: #426343).
280 * Add configurable options for replaygain tools.
281 * Fix syntax error in tagged speex command (Closes: #554406)
282 Ubuntu patch by Michael Helmling.
283 * Fix mp3 tagging fails for single author albums (Closes: #554030)
285 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:09:47 +0000
290 * Corrected REDIR redirection, this time with ifs instead of variable
291 substitution, which did not work (Closes: #527191).
292 * Added TPE2 for Various artists definition (Closes: #521669).
293 * Incorporate syntax error fix patch from Andrew Ruder.
294 * Fix formatting for track number tagging.
295 * Replace dependency on cdda2wav with icedax since the former has
298 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:33:33 +0100
302 * Remove svn Revision tag from version.
303 * Correct homepage URL in README (Closes: #526165).
304 * Fix typos (Closes: #435605, #435606).
305 * Fix misspelling of comma in script and manpage (Closes: #435603).
306 * Fix Writable temp directories not owned/writeable (Closes: #143552).
307 * Fix broken range code, patch from Charles Steinkuehler (Closes: #389981).
308 * Remove unneeded escapes in cddb-tool URLs.
309 Add support for freedb2 (Closes: #391110).
310 another patch from Charles Steinkuehler.
311 * Fix Endless loop possible when mp3gain asks clipping question bug
313 * Update Vcs-Svn: tag in debian/control.
314 * Add a recommends for vorbis-tools (Closes: #392843).
315 * Update standards version to 3.8.2 (no changes required).
316 * Fix debian/preinst not to ignore errors.
318 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:32:30 +0100
324 * The "It took me a long time to get this release out" release.
325 * abcde.1: remove -M in favour of "-a cue" (Closes: #382614, #396505).
326 * Added a check for a DOCUE already set in the command line
328 * Added -q <Q> as a quality option.
329 * PREGAP was not set in some situations (Closes: #390170).
330 * Added -nv to wget for "no verbose" output, to avoid wget complaining it
331 cannot be quiet and verbose at the same time if "verbose = on" is set in
332 ~/.wgetrc (Closes: #388715).
333 * Added XS-Vcs-Svn: field to control file.
334 * Added some hints if we are using Debian for what packages need to be
335 installed if their binaries are not found.
336 * Spelling mistakes corrected (thanks to Ville Skytta).
337 * Unset GREP_OPTIONS to avoid things like printing number in the beginning of
338 the line (Closes: #383771).
339 * Default answer to erase a playlist was not working (thanks to Charles
340 Steinkuehler) (Closes: #395108).
341 * Corrected man page wrapping. Thanks to Edward J. Shornock
343 * Adds DISCNUMBER to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC when using -W.
344 * Minor typos (Closes: #458995).
345 * Added AtomicParley for AAC encoding. Thanks to Bill Adams.
346 * Added by Marc Staveley:
348 - track comments if null and present in CDDB.
349 * Corrected copyright information (Closes: #516535).
352 * Added new uploader (Closes: #529695).
353 * Fix Lintian warning for make-clean-error.
354 * Fix FSF address in debian/copyright.
355 * Fix binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep lintian warning.
356 * Add homepage: field to debian/control
357 * Update standards version to 3.8.0
358 * Remove debian/conffiles (it is not needed).
359 * Fix syntax error in abcde (missing fi).
361 -- Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:50:42 +0100
365 * Default to UNICODE (UTF8) tags and comments (Closes: #282332).
366 - Added CDDBPROTO option in config file (Closes: #349951)
367 * Added a missing "INDEX 01" entry for CUE sheet creation.
368 * Avoid completing the encoding of files if we aborted previously.
369 * Embed the CUE sheet if we have a cuesheet file and we have a single FLAC
370 file, even if we are not tagging. This way we can use the file as a source
371 even if it is not tagged/named properly.
372 * Fails to quote filenames properly (Closes: #355296)
373 * Introduced VA/ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT.
374 * Added a missing check for AACENCODER.
375 * Updated config file with some new AAC bits.
376 * Updated FSF address.
377 * Corrected NetBSD options for ftp (Thanks to Marius).
378 * The final 2.4 will have "cuefile" as an action instead of as a flag.
379 * Create the cuefile when extracting from a FLAC file.
380 * Small bugs (Charles Steinkuehler):
381 - Added missing quotes (Closes: #375710)
382 - toolame is included in Debian as default MP3 encoder
383 - Use IFS to preserve spaces when adding metadata to a cuefile
384 * Small documentation changes:
385 - abcde.1 (Closes: #364978)
386 * The following entries have in common that both add an internal cue2discid
387 function. I will evaluate which one is more accurate and decide which one
388 to use. Right now they are not conflicting:
389 - Added internal mkcue and cue2discid functions (Charles Steinkuehler) and
390 add a check for internal abcde.<function> to make sure we are using the
391 correct version (not sure if needed ;)
392 - Added an internal implementation of cue2discid, so there is no need for
393 an external program to do the conversion. Thanks to Michael (sorry, his
394 mail does not have a surname).
395 * cue2discid is now an internal function, so no need for including the
396 python script in the path (Closes: #378407)
397 * cddb-tool.1 typo (Thanks to A. Costa) (Closes: #351775)
398 * abcde.1 typo (Thanks to David L. Anselmi) (Closes: #364978)
399 * Set proper nice values to not separate encoding and reading in the pipes
400 situation, while having a high priority process running in the system.
401 Also, set proper nice values to tagging tasks. Reading should remain as
402 the default higher priority task in the abcde flow (Closes: #359156)
403 * Standards bumped to 3.7.2.1, no changes needed.
405 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:26:56 +0300
409 * Repaired multiple CDDB entries when recursive search is active.
410 * Patch from A. Costa to clean some typos (Closes: #351774).
412 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 07 Feb 2006 23:48:00 +0200
416 * Repaired multiple output encoding (Closes: #351362).
417 * Added missing space on a [] test statement.
418 * Added "default" action, so that one can add things on top of what we do
419 regularly, without having to list everything: "-a default,playlist" works.
420 * Restored all the > /dev/null instead of using grep -q, since it is not
422 * Added Solaris OS entry, in case we need to define things for it.
424 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 05 Feb 2006 15:24:00 +0200
428 * The "Mao es nuestro indiscutible lider" release.
429 * Check the CDROMREADER options we have in Debian which we depend on. Thanks
430 to Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo for finding the error.
431 * New recursive option for local CDDB repositories, to cope with other
432 players saving the entries.
433 * Brand new CD backup procedure: rip a CD into a single FLAC trac with an
434 embedded cuesheet using "-1 -M -o flac" and proceed to rip your tracks
435 from the obtained file using "-d file.flac -o <format>". It needs
436 cue2discid script from the examples directory to work. OH! If you manage
437 to get it working with bash, we can get rid of the python dependency...
438 * Initial steps to make abcde working with musicbrainz, although it is not
440 * Added a missing $ in a variable (Closes: #345629).
441 * Added -p to the mkdir's for $ABCDETEMPDIR (Closes: #345630).
442 * Added iconv + converted to utf-8 the charset of a ready-to-send CDDB
443 entry (Closes: #345708).
444 * Added AAC (Mpeg4) support.
445 * Small cd-discid update.
447 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:27:40 +0200
451 * Missing bits in the 2.3.99.1 changelog:
452 - Man page: added information about -z (Debug option).
453 - Corrected config file with the BATCHNORM/NOGAP split
455 - Uses /bin/bash for the time being... We need to get some substitution
456 functions/operations for the bashisms we have: Closes: #337139.
457 * Config bits with corrected typos
458 * Adding musicbrainz support. First bits.
459 * Reworked comparison for numerical answer when selecting a CDDB output.
462 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:46:58 +0200
466 * Both -z and -C unset EJECTCD to avoid ejecting the CD when a) we are
467 debuging and b) we are not using the CD.
468 * If we are not reading the CD, set "loud" to see all the output messages
469 (that is, in most of the cases, the first encoding).
470 * Added -f to force some events that otherwise would erase files from our
471 current run. In the standard configuration ("OUTPUT=vorbis") the following
472 actions will need a "-f" to force the last one:
473 abcde -a read,encode -o ogg,flac
474 abcde -a tag,move,clean
475 During the second run abcde should complain that it is trying to erase the
476 working directory while the it has not performed any action on the FLAC
477 files, which we encoded previously.
478 * Convert the old cdparanoia-audio-tracks file into a status entry to avoid
479 eating files from previous rounds using an early version (Closes: #341050)
481 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:27:20 +0200
485 * Added diff choice to CDDB entries ("1,4").
486 * Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to allow the user to show YEAR and GENRE in the
488 * Suggests mkcue, and erase old cdgrab info since sarge is out.
489 * Changed cdparanoia-audio-tracks to use the status file to save the data.
490 * Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
491 cuesheet as a source of tracks.
492 * Added -z for easy and quick debug.
493 * BATCH has been split into two options: BATCHNORM which allows, by using
494 -b, to use the -a normalize in all the files at once, and NOGAP, that by
495 using -g, introduces the lame's --nogap extension.
496 * Added replygain using the appropriate tags with Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC.
497 * Replaygain is an action, not a flag, since it can be performed individually
498 in the chain of events.
499 * debian/{rules,control}:
500 - Changed the target directory from tmp to abcde, to accommodate to compat
502 - Bump standards to 3.6.2.1. No changes needed.
503 * Added "decho" as a DEBUG output for some specific debug variables.
504 * Added USEPIPES file, with information about how to add Unix pipes support.
505 * Added one more checking for PIPES*_* unset variables (which means support
506 is not added to abcde).
507 * Added toolame as an optional MP3 encoder.
509 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:05:32 +0300
513 * Some patches from Tom Spindler <dogcow () babymeat ! com>
514 - Added some quoting to the md5sum checkings, since the variables could be
516 - NetBSD bits to use ftp instead on anything else to fetch stuff.
517 * do_playlist needs to convert the OUTPUT to the CONTAINERS to avoid ending
518 with playlists pointing to .vorbis files (Closes: #326487).
520 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:50:07 +0300
524 * Rips done in a single track were getting tagged as Various. Corrected.
525 * Possibly eliminated some bashisms from using a variable as a variable
526 (Closes: #324399). Thanks to A Costa.
528 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:35 +0300
532 * Too fast... I forgot to make the tarball and change the version strings in
533 several places. Fixed.
535 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:44:37 +0300
539 * The new "I knew there were going to be bugs" upstream release!
540 * MKCUE needs to be passed some $CDROM as an option, or otherwise it will
541 not read the CDROM, in case is not /dev/cdrom.
542 * Also, make the CUEREADER a bit more general, since we might be using other
545 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:44:20 +0300
549 * New upstream release!
550 * Defining the tracknumber now resets the first track if given a number
551 different than 1 (that is: abcde -T 1 2-10 creates songs 1 to 9).
552 * Modified the FAQ to reflect the changes on Marillat's repo
554 * Should be "space" safe: works properly when the working directory contains
555 a space (Closes: #147493).
556 * Repared the CD query for the discid code. When failing to read a disc,
557 actually report that there might be no disc in the drive.
558 * Right now, walk over the different encoders we Depends: on in Debian and
559 use the one available: if a user has a FLAC encoder, abcde will no install
560 vorbis-tools, so it will fail to run out of the box (Closes: #321216)
561 * Added CUE support. Still experimental...
562 * Added FLAC on Ogg. Still not activated, since we cannot get comments added
563 as a post-process action.
564 * Applied patches from Fedora Core (Credit goes to Nils Philippsen
565 <nphilipp@redhat.com>)
566 * Added a post_read() function to be executed before ejecting the CD.
567 * Typos reported by A Costa corrected (Closes: #311463)
568 * Problem with abcde being run in a directory with files containing only
569 numbers solved (Closes: #313628).
570 * vorbiscomment uses now "-R" (Closes: #303566).
571 * "-t" and "-T" use the first track as a starter for the track list.
573 * Added CDPARANOIACDROMBUS option to define -d in case of using IDE and SCSI
574 in case of using ide-scsi emulation layer (Closes: #290768).
575 * Define metaflac in abcde.conf (Closes: #303555)
576 * Added the default "-f" option to the configuration file, to represent the
577 actual default option.
579 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:47:27 +0300
583 * Double quotation added to solve parsing * as a wildcard (Closes: #302904).
584 Thanks to Christian Grigis for the patch. Also (Closes: #268088).
586 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:18:03 +0000
590 * CDPARANOIAOUTPUT missed some quotes.
591 * Removed some useless lines.
592 * If BATCH is used with ONETRACK, disable BATCH.
593 * Small typos with CDROM comparisons.
594 * Logic for CDROM variable improved.
595 * Version bumped to 2.2.5 and targeted to Sarge.
597 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 2 Apr 2005 21:05:18 +0300
601 * Changed the way we call flac, to adapt to the new times:
602 --import-vc-from= to --import-tags-from.
603 * DOSPLAYLIST was not included in the list of options.
604 * Options passed to the encoder by using <-o ogg:"-b 192"> are now
605 supported. One can modify the way abcde encodes just for the current CD.
606 * Unfortunatelly I forgot to add the starting number for tags in Ogg. For
607 MP3 is a bit more difficult, since it needs changing the X/YY code.
608 * Also, the order of the tags in metaflac is important for the utf8 names.
609 Thanks to Frederik Juul Christiani (Closes: #297482)
610 * Added CDROMID in the .conf file, for reader programs that need it
612 * Added a check for cdparanoia when encountering data-only CDs.
614 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:14:24 +0200
619 - suggest normalize-audio, since it changed its name (Closes: #287674).
620 * Use the default while erasing an existing playlist (Closes: #288835).
621 * Does not destroy track information when a track contains "=" in the name
624 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:35:46 +0200
628 * Quotes missing when evaluating a value (Closes: #284018).
630 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:20:18 +0200
634 * Spotted and solved a problem with the way the data tracks were detected
637 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:47:54 +0200
641 * New release! Let's see if abcde 2.2 gets into Sarge.
642 * Added support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoding. Although I am trying to
643 get 2.2 for Debian Sarge release, mpc seems safe enough to introduce. See
644 corecodec.org for code.
645 * Some POSIX shell corrections (making the code more portable). Thanks to
646 Guillem Jover for pointing the problem out.
647 * CDYEAR is also passed to do_move(), so one can use it for sorting the
649 * Small MacOS X fix, allowing directories with "()" to work. Thanks to Evan
651 - On the MacOS X, I still do not know if abcde works correctly. If does
652 not, please, drop a note. Or else.
653 * DOSPLAYLIST also changes "/" with "\".
654 * DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
655 the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
656 work (at least there is no support for them in abcde)
657 (Closes: #112692, #117412).
658 * New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
659 template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
660 * New options for when the PLAYLIST already exists: erase, append or keep.
661 * Bug fixes along the code:
662 - abcde.1 corrections and additions
663 - abcde corrections and code reorganization. abcde now exits earlier if
664 some of the options are incompatible. Also the actions are set as
665 variables earlier, so we use less calls to external tools.
666 - abcde.conf additions
667 * The GENRE is munged now in its own mungegenre function, so that no more
668 upper-to-lowercase is done (forced) except if the default is used.
669 * Examples added to the tarball and /usr/share/doc/abcde/examples with two
670 scripts to make abcde kind-of-a ripper daemon.
671 * Changed to experimental to have an stable 2.1.x version in Sarge.
672 * Add CDDB information to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files (Closes: #265358).
673 * Added INTERACTIVE option. Set it to "n" and there you go, without user
675 * Changes normalize to normalize-audio (Closes: #267053)
676 * Copes with wav files being erased by the ripping tool.
677 * Small patch to support ()'s in the path under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones
678 for noticing and sending the patch.
679 * Added -w for COMMENT seed. Used to give a comment to a given CD.
680 * Option "-t <number>" added to modify the numbering from a starting point
681 (Closes: #95828). Geez! That is low bug number...
682 * Added -T to modify also the tag entries on the songs. Currently available
683 for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
684 * Removes trailing spaces (Closes: #280382).
685 * TRACKNAME now combines multi-lines from long CDDB entries.
687 - s/dh_installmanpages/dh_installman/
689 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 7 Nov 2004 03:11:22 +0200
693 * Changed normalize with normalize-audio (Closes: #267053).
695 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:16:46 +0000
699 * The "Let's have a good abcde in Sarge" release.
700 * The mungefile() function changes * with + by default to avoid creating
701 directories with the start expanded to the files found in the current
702 directory. abcde2.2 will most likelly contain a better workaround.
703 * Correct default OUTPUTFORMAT in man page (Closes: #250649)
705 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:46 +0300
709 * Encoding the whole CD in one file is now possible. Use "-1" as a flag
712 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:04:58 +0000
716 * Do not release in a hurry. The eject program is not needed if CDSPEEDVALUE
717 is not set and no EJECT action is performed (Closes: #242506)
719 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:18:49 +0000
723 * Dud! Those missing quotes are going to kill me. Quotes restored and
726 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:30:31 +0000
730 * New setting for the CD speed. Some drives have a higher failure ratio when
731 spinning at high speed.
732 * Added a pre-read function for preparations. Uses include closing the CD
733 tray (Closes: #137548).
734 * Added COMMENT part in OggFlac metadata.
735 * Documentation update: README, abcde.1
736 * Do not tag GENRE and DATE in Ogg/Vorbis if CDDB does not provide them
738 * Solved bug with batch encoding, thanks to Travis McKay.
739 * When *DATAPREFIX was set, the playlist creation was made without newline.
740 * Added >&2 redirection to visualize the "Erase playlist" question
742 * Added the option "-m" to modify the resulting playlist, to contain CRLF at
743 the end of every line, letting some hardware players which insist with
744 DOS-style files to use them. Also, added DOSPLAYLIST as a config option.
745 * When using a selected, localy cached CDDB entry, we forgot to show the
746 selection when asking the user for editing the choice. Now we show it.
747 * Improved the logic in the order of events when using a local CDDB repo.
749 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 05:29:38 +0000
753 * EDITOR is called now evaluating the variable, so it works with full path
755 * Patch for making md5sum a variable (since some systems use a different
757 * Correction by "huf" <mihi at mail.eol.hu>. The test code in line 376
759 * The PADDING code and some CDDB funcions were *really* messy. Now it looks
760 cleaner, works faster and some not needed network operations are no
761 longer performed when we are working with local CDDB repositories.
762 * Added "-V" for extra verbosity (on slow networks the user might be waiting
763 and wondering is somethins is happening).
764 * Solved a bug with the non-interactive code.
766 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:13:12 +0000
770 * Missing quotes restored (Closes: #228648).
772 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:43:04 +0000
776 * Solved the problem with re-runs of multiple choices not showing all the
777 choices (Closes: #228405) (this was a quick one)
778 * We now show the selected CDDB entry on a second run, instead of all of
779 them (not that one should stop abcde, but just in case). This way
780 consecutive interrupted runs obtain the same results.
782 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:15 +0000
786 * Check if normalizer is found in the PATH (Closes: #228014)
787 * Added (commented) bits to check if the CD being processed is the CD on the
788 tray, so that if differs we do not eject it.
789 * Store locally the CDDB information, under $HOME/.cddb since it is being
790 used by Grip (at least). PATH is user defined (Closes: #88048)
791 * If you are using cdda2wav and SCSI drives, you can set CDROMID for the
792 SCSI drive, since it differs from the cd-discid CDROM parameter
794 * MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
795 ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
796 report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
797 with the reports I have received.
799 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:06:07 +0000
803 * Urgent fixes for the FreeBSD and MacOSX bits. When using cdda2wav, the
804 CDROM variable must be modified depending on the device interface. By now
805 we will not try to be very smart.
806 * Added a test for HTTPGETOPTS since it cannot be empty for the default
808 * Quick release to fix a problem with the CDROM detection code.
810 * Cleaned a bashism. Thanks to Klaus Ethgen (Closes: #226782).
811 * Rewrote some parts of the cdda2wav code. Since I do not have a machine
812 where cdda2wav works, I cannot test the code. The modifications have been
813 done following user reports. If you use cdda2wav and abcde does not work
814 for you, please, contact me and we will try to sort things out. Thanks.
816 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:23 +0000
820 * INLINETAG and STARTTRACKNUMBER flags added.
821 * CDROM checking is now done with a bit more wiselly (Closes: #219768)
822 * HTTPGET is only requested is "cddb" action is performed.
823 * Workout the possibility of cdparanoia erasing our wav files
825 * The default answer for editing CDDB data is now "y" if the disk is
826 unknown. If not, the default is "n". Requested by Ricky Buchanan.
827 * Now we do not erase silently any previous $PLAYLISTFILE left behind by a
828 previous CD ripping (Closes: #220753)
829 * Write info file with cdda2wav (Closes: #187702).
830 I do not use cdda2wav myself (me is cd-paranoid) so if anyone using
831 cdda2wav has a problem with this, please, report.
832 * CDROM comes in 1,0,0 kind of format for cdda2wav ripper. Corrected with a
833 quick patch. Kudos go to Mikhail Manuilov <viper5k at pisem dot net> for
835 * Merged bits to make abcde work under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones.
836 * Merged bits to avoid FreeDB people anger and to cut down the "abcde." part
837 of the discid. Now you can set the "-C" command with the directory name.
838 Kudos go to Bart Samwel.
839 * Added some info bits to the config file about normalize, requested by
841 * Added some testing for the wav file before normalizing, to check that the
842 file is actually there.
844 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:43:59 +0000
848 * The "First snow in Finland" release.
849 * One head was missing a "-n"
850 * Not use relative links when PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX is set (Closes: #165368)
851 * Stupid use of $OUTPUTTYPE in flac tagging (Closes: #218625)
853 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:05:17 +0000
857 * Small typo corrected (Closes: #217149)
858 * KEEPWAVS now sets the "clean" action to "no", so the wavs are kept.
860 * Quick release fixing a couple of bugs introduced by the padding patch
862 * Control: Build-Depends-Indep: moved to Build-Depends:, as per
863 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
866 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:49:01 +0000
870 * The "Engineer" release. Yeah! I graduated!
871 * Patch applied to solve the track submission interface issues. Kudos to
872 Marc HE Brockschmidt, again (Closes: #126289)
873 * Small bug related with DISTMP3NICE solved. Kudos to Wilbert Alberts.
875 * Padding now creates the list with padded numbers. Test patch. This should
876 solve the problem with delayed tagging a single file.
878 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 13 Oct 2003 09:50:09 +0000
882 * Removed a nasty bug where even if the encode failed, the track was marked
883 as successfully encoded (Closes: #208391)
884 * Various Artists has now its own PLAYLIST format (Closes: #137432)
885 * metaflac path corrected (Closes: #206110)
886 * Hopefully this version repairs the comment part for Ogg/Vorbis files.
887 * If nothing breaks, 2.2 will be released as soon as the KNOWNBUG is solved.
888 * Removed all the inline tagging since it breaks the action chain, except
889 in Ogg/Speex. Need to check if "vorbiscomment" can be used for it.
891 * Added DISTMP3NICE variable, to nice the distmp3 program (Closes: #208398)
893 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:53:09 +0000
897 * Small fixes and patches.
898 + GENRE can be used for OUTPUTFORMAT and PLAYLISTFORMAT
899 + id3v2 should work now with -c for comments (Closes: #199949)
900 + small bug with batch encoding
901 + Variables are exported before the CDDB functions are called, so they
902 should use the right variables for the HTTPGET command.
903 + Tagging also use TRACKS and CDGENRE for MP3 files (kudos to Dirk
905 + FLAC encoding now uses dismp3 to encode remotelly (kudos to Taylor and
906 Kevin Cramer). HANDLE WITH CARE ;)
907 Also FLAC now uses CDGENRE and CDYEAR for tagging.
908 * tail/head change: -1 has been deprecated. Noted by Stephan Kulow.
909 * Ogg/Speex support added, for speech encoding (Closes #204635)
910 * Documentation update (Closes: #198825)
911 * Patch for "=" in the name applied (Closes: #197199)
913 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:45:29 +0000
918 + COMMENT should work now.
919 + Aesthetic padding on the total amount of tracks.
921 + CDROM is now checked after reading the user defined entries.
922 * Remove trailing args from $EDITOR when checking -x: Closes #179222.
924 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sun, 18 May 2003 18:47:36 +0000
928 * Makefile was missing cddb-tool.1.
929 * Introduced dagrab as CD ripping utility.
930 * cddb-tool seq calls converted to functions. No more distro dependencies.
931 * WGET* variables converted to HTTPGET* variables. FreeBSD can safelly use
933 * More FreeBSD specific bits: CDROM and EJECT changes.
935 * Added CDDBPROTO for specifying the protocol level of the cddb query.
936 * CDDB protocol upgraded to 5. CDYEAR and CDGENRE are now used for CD
938 * COMMENT is now used for inline tagging with oggenc (my mistake it was
939 missing): Closes: #191475.
941 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Sat, 10 May 2003 07:49:22 +0000
945 * Documentation updates: Closes: #186230.
946 * Usual set of bug fixes and corrections.
947 * Default behaviour of VAOUTPUTFORMAT output changed to avoid multiple
948 directories for a same album. I think the format is more logical, and you
949 can always split the files once they are created.
950 * Padding track wavs with 0 so if you want to burn those wavs just cdrecord
951 *.wav will do it. Use "-p" to force it when encoding a small (<9) number
952 of files (Closes: #111627).
953 * Added "KEEPWAVS" as a variable to keep those wavs. Default is "no". Can
954 use also "-k" in the command line. (Closes: #160372).
955 This probably should be changed with an option to move the wav files to
956 another directory instead of just keep de abcde.<cdid> directory.
957 * Added documentation comments about OUTPUTTYPE (Closes: #184963).
958 * abcde.conf cleanup: (Closes: #186230, #187400).
960 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:39:25 +0200
966 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:52:01 +0200
970 * Since abcde does not depend on eject, an execution test ([-x]) was added,
971 but that means abcde needs a test for eject in the patch if -x is passed:
973 * Merged some more bits from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #126289.
974 * A bit of more info in abcde.conf: Closes: #184963.
975 * cddb-tool version updated to 0.4.2
977 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:00:03 +0000
981 * Old version string left behind. Updated.
982 * Few more doc update bits.
983 * Patches from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Closes: #149499.
984 * Small patch from Norbert Preining to support multiple output in the output
986 * cddb-tool parses CDYEAR with the help of awk: Closes: #114848.
987 * cddb-tool does not globe "*" characters anymore: Closes: #157448.
989 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 7 Mar 2003
992 * The infamous "Works for me(TM)" and "Time to release" release.
993 + We preppend track number now: Closes: #128966.
994 + Itegrate flac: Closes: #126311.
995 + Multi-format encode: Closes: #148934.
996 + Gapless lame encoding: Closes: #172696.
997 + CDROM documented: Closes: #182403.
998 * Applied OpenBSD patches to make the script more portable. Thanks to Han
1000 * Documentation fixes: closes: #100844, #136741.
1001 * NetBSD patches applied:
1002 - EXPERIMENTAL Normalize and Batch support.
1003 - EXPERIMENTAL FLAC support.
1004 * EXPERIMENTAL multiple output support:
1005 + multiple output and error checking
1006 + multiple lists support
1007 * Default output file changed to have the $track_number in the beginning.
1010 -- Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> Fri, 28 Feb 2003
1013 * The Fixed-Yet?-How-About-Now?-What-About-Now?-Now? Release
1014 * SMP fixed, mad props to Steve Madsen, closes: #69828, #111806
1015 * Minor code cleanups thanks to Adam Heath
1016 * Multiple inexact match results are generated in a safe manner
1017 thanks to Nick Martin, closes: #126025
1018 * Removed cddb-tool template generation bashism, thanks to Greg
1019 Norris, closes: #126327
1020 * Windows can't handle double quotes in filenames either.
1021 The default mungefilename now removes them, closes: #127643
1022 * Using -C with WAVOUTPUTDIR fixed, closes: #127728
1023 * Resuming various artists discs fixed, closes: #127731
1025 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002
1028 * The One-More-Time-With-Feeling Release
1029 * Bladeenc really works this time. Honest. closes: #121988
1031 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 3 Dec 2001
1035 * The I-Don't-Listen-To-Sssca Release
1036 * Example abcde.conf fixes, closes: #111580
1037 * So much for bladeenc's l3enc compatibility, closes: #110863
1038 * CDDB submit fixes (to enable CDDB submitting, put
1039 UNINTENTIONALLY_ANGER_THE_FREEDB_PEOPLE=y in your abcde.conf),
1040 closes: #111478, #111500
1041 * Minor mungefilename() cleanup
1043 * Works with oggenc when POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined, thanks to Juhapekka
1045 * Quote remote locations when calling distmp3
1046 * Allow remote encoding of oggs
1047 * Only remove wav files if the encoding succeeded
1048 * No-local-encoding via -j 0 fixed, thanks to Hans-Joachim Baader
1049 * CD read errors are trapped/resumed cleanly now thanks to Pete,
1051 * devfs device check fix, thanks to Clint Adams
1052 * Check for seq command - some BSD's have jot instead and abcde can't
1054 * Various Artists playlist generation fixed, thanks to William Lash
1056 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001
1060 * The Psychiatrist-Says-I'm-Stable-Again Release
1062 * Minor documentation updates
1064 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2001
1068 * The Waiter-There's-A-Proof-In-My-Pudding Release
1069 * Fixed some quoting issues preventing abcde from using a temp directory
1070 containing spaces, closes: #89682
1071 * Now purges encodetracklocation notes from the status file when resuming.
1072 * -a playlist now implies -a cddb
1073 * Manpage and default config file updates, closes: #78726, #100841, #100845
1074 * Applied checkstatus patch by Itai Zukerman, fixes certain track number
1075 status checking situations, closes: #93395
1076 * Check to see if things run through run_command return a nonzero error
1077 code and present the command and error code to the user later,
1079 * Devfs fixup - If /dev/cdrom doesn't exist, try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
1081 * If a background process returned an error, log it. If it was an encode
1082 process, abandon that encode location and don't wait for the encode
1083 process to finish. Display the commandlines that resulted in error exits
1084 with their exit codes before aborting.
1085 * do_tag handles vorbis commenting failures idempotently
1087 * Resumes encoding if all files have ripped, closes: #101843
1088 * do_cddbedit code checks to see if it's already been run
1090 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 1 Aug 2001
1094 * The Not-Quite-Last-In-The-Development-Series Release
1095 * I broke ID3v1 comments in 1.9.8, it's fixed now, thanks to Christian
1096 Beyerlein for noticing this
1098 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001
1102 * The Groundshaking Release
1103 * Now defaults to using FreeDB instead of Gracenote. Pricks.
1104 * New VAOUTPUTFORMAT variable for those who like their various artists
1105 discs named in a different format
1106 * Accommodates the fact that OpenBSD xargs does not eat whitespace, thanks
1107 to Marcus Daniel for discovering this
1108 * New scheduler for distmp3, thanks to David Bergeron
1109 * xingmp3enc support, thanks to Brian Gannon
1110 * Stripped down cddb-tool a little bit so that abcde no longer requires
1112 * New -C option to let people continue where they left off if they no
1113 longer have the CD handy
1114 * ID3COMMENT is now COMMENT
1115 * Ogg commenting is now done separately so resuming doesn't break it
1116 * More documentation updates
1118 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sat, 10 Mar 2001
1122 * The Overcast Partial Eclipse Release
1124 * Various Artists heuristics patch by Kevin Everets
1125 * New -c option to specify an extra configuration file
1126 * Does not try to check if a tagger exists unless OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
1127 * cddb-tool template output fixes
1128 * Yet more documentation updates
1129 * Avoids id3v2's -c option for now
1130 * Adds support for another Various Artists format, "Artist: Title", thanks
1132 * Fixed typo that was breaking remote encoding support
1133 * Hitting control-c while there's nothing in the foreground no longer
1134 causes abcde to delete all its work upon exit
1136 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001
1140 * The Squishy Release
1141 * Updated getopts call to remove obsoleted options
1142 * More documentation fixes, closes: #77957
1143 * Single inexact match spurious question fix
1144 * Fixed encoder trigger timing when using -l, closes: #77854
1146 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000
1150 * The "Run Towards Trick Or Treaters With Scissors" Release
1151 * Some documentation updates
1152 * mungefilename quoting fix
1153 * Implemented -a, which replaces -p, -P, and a number of other things
1155 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 30 Oct 2000
1159 * The "Run With Scissors" Release
1160 * Various Artists support by Kevin Everets
1161 * Specifying track numbers on the command line should work again, bash was
1162 getting a wee bit confuzzled with the way I had things before.
1163 * A couple more error output changes and miscellaneous fixes
1164 * OUTPUTDIR works again
1166 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000
1171 * Brown Paper Bag fix for mp3enc users
1172 * Recreated the rest of the variable environment in do_playlist, fixes
1173 TRACKNUM availability for real this time, closes: #72535
1175 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000
1179 * The "Very Long Changelog Entries Can Become Addicting" Release.
1180 * Switched default output type to ogg, default encoder to oggenc
1181 * Since 1.9.x prompts for CDDB edits by default there is now a -N switch
1182 for non-interactivity.
1183 * Handles cddb entries with random sprinklings of CR's and LF's
1184 * You can now specify niceness for the reader and encoders, thanks to
1185 Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>
1186 * -j 0 will now disable local encoding, thanks to Antonio Fiol
1187 <Antonio.FIOL@enst-bretagne.fr>
1188 * Vorbize should actually work now, thanks to Kevin Everets and James
1190 * Oggenc/Vorbize commenting support
1191 * Made TRACKNUM available for playlist generation
1192 * Fleshed out the TODO list a bit more
1193 * mungefilename() now translates ':' to ' -' by default. Rationale: You
1194 can't put ':' on a FAT filesystem. It also wreaks havoc with Samba.
1196 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2000
1200 * The "Don't Fraun" Release.
1201 * Fixed a half-dozen minor buglets
1202 * A little less debug output, a lot more normal output
1203 * Resuming operation works better now
1204 * Patched up offline usage again
1205 * Broke OUTPUTFORMAT - if you plan on ever using Ogg support, and you've
1206 overridden the OUTPUTFORMAT default, change the ".mp3" to
1208 * Beginnings of Ogg Vorbis support (vorbize and oggenc) - warning:
1211 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000
1216 * Completely redone tmpfile handling, abcde can now continue where you left
1217 off. closes: #42970, #50883, #66668
1218 * Restructured program execution scheduling around central status file
1219 * Moved cddb-tool interactivity to abcde, 'cddb-tool get' no longer exists,
1220 it is now 'cddb-tool query' and 'cddb-tool read'.
1221 * Removed -e, -v, and -V, since abcde will now prompt you if you want to
1222 edit or otherwise muck with the data after you have a chance to see it.
1224 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2000
1228 * The "That wasn't chicken" release.
1229 * Remote distributed encoding had a bad bug in 1.1 - work to be done
1230 remotely was duplicated locally (everything still turned out ok - there
1231 was just no speedup). Fixed that.
1232 * Restructured encode_and_tag function.
1234 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 07 May 2000
1238 * The "We heard Mr. Garrison say them a couple of times" Release.
1239 * New -r and REMOTEHOSTS option to use distmp3 to encode to multiple
1241 * Command-line track range specification (f.e. "abcde 1-12"
1242 (Thanks: Vincent Ho)
1243 * Now displays minutes/seconds for each track while displaying track titles
1246 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2000
1250 * The "Inspected by #17" Release.
1251 * New EJECTCD option to eject the CD after all tracks are read (thanks:
1252 Hrafnkell F Hlodversson)
1254 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 2 Apr 2000
1258 * The "...So we can both watch X-Files..." Release.
1259 * Quoting fix for setups without space->underscore filename munging
1260 * README file URL fixes/updates
1262 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 16 Mar 2000
1266 * CDPARANOIAOPTS and CDDA2WAVOPTS should work now.
1268 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 20 Feb 2000
1272 * The "This Space Intentionally Left Blank" Release
1273 * Support for reverse and dashed Various Artists discs
1274 * More elegant way of passing backtick data
1275 * Replaced all `foo` commands with $(foo)
1276 * Custom filename munging, closes: #38448
1278 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000
1282 * Now eats backticks in CDDB input (thanks to Steve Beattie)
1283 * mp3enc support (thanks to Richard Jelinek and Chris Ruvolo), closes: #56189
1284 * cddb-tool more gracefully handles no net connection for those with
1285 local caching name servers
1286 * Fixed HELLOINFO documentation bug, closes: #56189
1288 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jan 2000
1292 * The "s/ever/ Three Days/" Release
1293 * Now properly handles double-quotes in Artist and Album data
1294 (thanks to Clint Adams), closes: #54888
1296 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000
1300 * The "But a 1.0 is Forever" Release
1301 * Backed out cddb-tool quoting change, closes: #54005
1302 * Now strips carriage returns from CDDB data, closes: #53815
1303 * Added ID3COMMENT config option
1305 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000
1309 * The "Get it Before the World Implodes" Release
1310 * Added -D (debugging option, outputs debugging information to stderr).
1311 Very useful for submitting bug reports, hint hint hint :)
1312 Just do 'abcde -D 2>logfile' and include logfile in your bug report.
1313 * Now uses id3's new -T option to embed track numbers in ID3 tags.
1314 * Fixed cddb-tool output for FreeDB submissions, closes: #51986.
1315 Thanks to Clint Adams for spotting the problem
1316 * New -v switch for Various Artist CD's (thanks to Magenta Hari Nezumi)
1318 * Fixed minor cddb-tool manpage buglet
1319 * Fixed cddb-tool output for shell quoting, thanks to Philipp Meier.
1322 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999
1326 * Added gogo explainations to manpages and example config file
1327 * Added code by Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net> to intelligently use
1328 relative paths for playlist files
1329 * Added PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX config option for those who wish to prefix their
1330 playlist data with things like URL's
1331 * Fixed bug added in 0.8 where the multiple inexact match choice selection
1332 would be hidden to the user (cddb-tool wasn't sending all user output to
1333 stderr as it should).
1335 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999
1339 * Removed parallelization of silent encoder processes
1341 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999
1345 * Removed bashisms (again :)
1347 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999
1351 * Fixed some output issues regarding background encoding that cropped up in
1354 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999
1358 * New name. A Better CD Encoder. cdgrab was already taken - the original
1359 cdgrab name belongs to a CDDA reading program for DOS dating back to
1360 1993. It's still in use and active development, so I'm changing the
1361 name of cdgrab instead. See this URL for a description of the original
1362 cdgrab: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/cdrom/cdgrab.txt
1364 Your old /etc/cdgrab.conf and/or ~/.cdgrab.conf can simply be
1365 renamed to /etc/abcde.conf and ~/.abcde.conf.
1367 The program name is now 'abcde'.
1369 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999
1373 * cdgrab 0.7 through 0.8.2 would leave around cdgrab.xxxxxx
1374 tempfiles with -j. Fixed that.
1375 * Fixed quoting issues regarding spaces in output files
1377 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999
1381 * Supports the 'gogo' mp3 encoder
1382 * cddb-tool escapes double quotes when sourcing its temp files
1383 * Added cddb-tool manpage
1385 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999
1389 * Cleared up some bashisms from the patches merged in 0.8
1391 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999
1395 * Fixed a bug where if multiple tracks (but not the entire CD) was
1396 specificed explicitly, cdgrab would loop forever after the first track
1397 * Now uses Debian's sensible-editor wrapper if available
1398 * Merged in patches from Nathaniel J Smith that puts cddb lookup
1399 functionality in a separate script, cddb-tool
1400 * Adds WAVOUTPUTDIR environment variable for those running out of space in
1403 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999
1407 * Yet another quick fix to finish what 0.7.6 started - cdgrab should now
1408 handle multiple inexact matches as well. (Thanks again to Robert Macaulay)
1410 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 1999
1414 * Another quick bugfix release - hopefully this will handle inexact matches
1415 properly now. (Thank you Robert Macaulay :)
1417 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 1999
1421 * Quick bugfix release - with any luck I can start on 0.8 soon :)
1422 * **** YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT CDGRAB.CONF **** if you use lame as
1423 /usr/bin/lamer. The default program name is now 'lame' as of lame v3.0.
1424 If you don't want to touch your lame installation, put the following in
1425 your cdgrab.conf: "LAME=lamer"
1426 * Omits -w from cdparanoia commands
1427 * Depends on cdparanoia-bin or cdparanoia now - this accommodates the recent
1428 cdparanoia package namechange.
1429 * Fixed a stealth-whitespace typo at line 495. Thanks go to Gregory T.
1430 Norris for tracking this down.
1432 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999
1436 * Now only uses the first match from a CDDB datafile for the track
1437 information, this works around a cddb glitch some of you may have
1439 * Default config file now gets version number from program.
1440 * added 'debug' option to CDROMREADERSYNTAX to get cdparanoia to only rip
1441 the first 5 seconds of a track. This is very useful to those debugging
1442 cdgrab, makes things go much faster. This will also prevent me releasing
1444 * Now puts options last on the encoder command line if you are using
1445 bladeenc or l3enc, this should allow the proper use of these encoders
1446 with additional commandline options (thanks to Justin Hugh Daly for
1448 * m3u PLAYLIST SUPPORT! Check out the new -p and -P options!
1450 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999
1454 * Fixes wget calling method
1455 * -l/LOWDISK documented
1456 * Fixes the lowdisk #2 option so it exits cleanly
1457 * Lets you enter track info for CDs without CDDB matches now
1459 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999
1463 * Woops, left some debugging code in 0.7.1 - if you have truckloads of 80kb
1466 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999
1470 * LOWDISK/-l option added for those who don't have the disk space to run a
1471 parallelized session.
1472 * MAXPROCS added to config file
1473 * CDDB handling revisited - cdgrab should now properly handle CD's with
1474 multiple or inexact CDDB entries.
1476 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 14 May 1999
1480 * Parallelizes ripping and encoding - this may take substantially more disk
1481 space temporarily (up to 500MB or so depending on how fast your CPU is
1482 compared to your cdrom drive) but cdgrab will be done with your CD
1484 * Allows for SMP optimizations (multiple encoders running at once) with the
1486 * Output fix for TOC printing
1487 * cd-discid split off into it's own package
1489 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Fri, 7 May 1999
1493 * Fixes encoder and cdrom reader option-passing bug
1495 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999
1499 * Adds the -H option (don't create .inf files) when calling cdda2wav
1500 * Removed a bashism from the usage function
1502 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999
1506 * Tacks a .wav extension to the wave data temporary file to make bladeenc
1508 * Munges /'s to _'s now instead of eating them
1509 * Adds command-line option configuration options for backend programs
1510 * Properly zero-pads the TRACKNUM variable
1512 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 1999
1516 * Added support for inexact or multiple CDDB matches
1517 * Properly bombs out if CDDB can't come up with a match
1518 (without CDDB, you might as well use cdparanoia -B)
1520 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999
1524 * Added ALBUMFILE, fixed manpage reference to it
1525 * Deletes editor backups from 'cdgrab -e' automagically
1526 (I wish mutt did this :)
1527 * Bombs out if there's no CD in the drive
1528 * Bombs out if any necessary external programs don't exist
1529 * Encourages people to use brackets for OUTPUTFORMAT variables to
1530 handle formats like Artist/TrackName_Number.mp3
1532 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 1999
1536 * Fixed one thinko in user preferences loading and another in the tagger
1537 * New option syntax - if you used to specify a cdrom device through the
1538 command line, use 'cdgrab -d device' now to get the same result.
1539 * Allows you to edit CDDB response data before using it (-e)
1540 * Added support for getting a user-specified selection of tracks
1541 * Added support for user-specified output file formats
1543 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999
1549 -- Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org> Sun, 21 Feb 1999