Q. Who created abcde? Who develops it nowadays?
A. It was originally created by Robert Woodcook. He decided to give up
maintaining it at some point in 2002 and Jesus Climent took over. In 2012,
- Colin Tuckley and Steve McIntyre joined in to help. Contact
- jesus.climent@hispalinux.es, colint@debian.org or 93sam@debian.org if you
- have a problem or a suggestion.
+ Colin Tuckley and Steve McIntyre joined in to help. Currently Steve maintains
+ abcde along with Andrew Strong. Contact either with comments or suggestions
+ at the following email addresses:
+ Steve McIntyre <93sam@@debian.org>
+ Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com>
1. INSTALLATION
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Q. Can abcde download album art?
-A. As of abcde 2.6.1 it is possible to download a suitable cover
+A. As of abcde 2.7 it is possible to download a suitable cover
image from within abcde that can be used by applications such
as Audacious and vlc to illustrate playback with an album cover.
Many hardware playback devices such as iPODs will also use this
ARTISTFILE="$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")"
ALBUMFILE="$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")"
- if [ "$OUTPUTTYPE" = "mp3" ] && [ "$TAGGER" = "$EYED3" ] ; then
- vecho "Preparing to embed the album art..." >&2
- else
- vecho "Not embedding album art, you need mp3 output and eyeD3 tagging..." >&2
- return 1
- fi
-
if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ] ; then
FINDPATH="$(eval echo "$VAOUTPUTFORMAT")"
else
FINDPATH="$(eval echo "$OUTPUTFORMAT")"
fi
- TRIMPATH="$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$FINDPATH")"
- cd "$TRIMPATH"
+ FINALDIR="$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$FINDPATH")"
+ cd "$FINALDIR"
+
+ if [ "$OUTPUTTYPE" = "mp3" ] && [ "$TAGGER" = "$EYED3" ] ; then
+ vecho "Preparing to embed the album art..." >&2
+ else
+ vecho "Not embedding album art, you need mp3 output and eyeD3 tagging..." >&2
+ return 1
+ fi
if [ -e "cover.jpg" ] ; then
for i in *.mp3
These streams should correctly have the .aac file extension and some
players (such as Audacious) will not even play mpeg-2/ADTS streams when
they are placed in an .m4a container.
- As of version 2.6.1 abcde tests the version of faac being used for mp4v2
+ As of version 2.7 abcde tests the version of faac being used for mp4v2
support and then appropriately places the audio either in .m4a or .aac.
Note that tagging is not possible with mpeg-2/ADTS streams in .aac.