abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that
grabs tracks off a CD or a singletrack flac file with an embeded cuesheet,
-encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack)
-format, and tags them, all in one go.
-
-Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/MPP's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory
-of the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the
-track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and control
-codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with an underscore and a hyphen. The
-end result usually looks like: Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg This
-filename munging is customizable - edit the mungefilename function in your
-abcde.conf to change it.
+encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, M4A, Opus, WavPack,
+Monkey's Audio (ape) and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format, and tags them, all
+in one go.
+
+Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/M4A/Opus,WavPack/Ape/MPP's are, by default,
+stored in a subdirectory of the current directory (named after the artist)
+with a filename based on the track title. Spaces are replaced by underscores,
+and apostrophes and control codes are filtered out. Colons are replaced with
+an underscore and a hyphen. The end result usually looks like:
+Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg. This filename munging is customizable,
+edit the mungefilename function in your abcde.conf to change it.
Many of the questions related of problems executing abcde have been moved to the
FAQ, which should be distributed along with this package. Refer to that file
MAJOR CHANGES
=============
+
+Changes in 2.7.2
+* Support for output to the Matroska container (mka).
+* Add id3tag mp3 tagger as this is the tagger available to
+ OpenBSD users.
+* Several bug fixes. See the changelog for more details.
+
+Changes in 2.7.1
+* Rewrite and improvement of the abcde Makefile.
+* Support added for True Audio encoding.
+* Support added for encoding to MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2) with either
+ twolame or FFmpeg.
+* Support added for encoding to WavPack with FFmpeg.
+* Support added for encoding to m4a with either FFmpeg or avconv. This
+ allows usage of the FFmpeg / avconv native alac encoder.
+* Support added for AAC encoding with fhgaacenc via Wine.
+* Support added for AAC encoding with qaac via Wine. (Also alac encoding
+ with the open source refalac).
+* Several bug fixes. See the changelog for more details.
+
+Changes in 2.7
+* Rewrite of the mungefilename function.
+* Support added for downloading album art.
+* Support added for ripping with libcdio (cd-paranoia).
+* Some error checking and a small help file added to abcde-musicbrainz-tool.
+* Substantial renovations of m4a encoding with a choice now between encoding
+ with faac, NeroAacEnc and fdkaac.
+* Fixes to USEPIPES with the addition of several new encoders and rippers.
+ Details on USEPIPES now available in the abcde FAQ doc.
+* Support added for encoding with Monkey's Audio (ape), tagging is with
+ Robert Muth's apetag.
+* Support added for encoding with WavPack.
+* mp3 tagging renovated with version sniffing differentiating between eyeD3
+ versions. Tagging formalised with options now for id3, id3v2 and eyeD3.
+* Many, many bug fixes. See the changelog for more details.
+
Changes in 2.6:
* Lots of bugfixes
abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
* An Ogg/Vorbis encoder (oggenc, the default, or vorbize) or:
-* An MP3 encoder (lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, etc). Any MP3 encoder that
- takes two filenames on the command line, one for input, one for output,
- will work.
- You can get lame at: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
- You can get gogo at: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html
- You can get BladeEnc at: http://bladeenc.mp3.no/
- You can get a trial version of mp3enc at:
- http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/ or:
-* FLAC encoder (flac) or:
-* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
-* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc) or:
-* AAC encoder (faac)
+* An MP3 encoder (lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, etc) or:
+* A FLAC encoder (flac) or:
+* An Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
+* An MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mpcenc) or:
+* An AAC encoder (faac, NeroAacEnc, fdkaac) or:
+* An Opus encoder )opusenc) or:
+* A Monkey's Ausio encoder (mac) or:
+* A WavPack encoder (wavpack)
* normalize-audio for volume normalization.
* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility or:
* icedax/cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from or:
+* cd-paranoia, an audio cd reading utility, courtesy of GNU libcdio or:
* dagrab, another audio CD reading utility.
* cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program. Formerly bundled with abcde.
It's available in Debian or http://linukz.org/cd-discid.shtml
Abcde's new mailing list is abcde-users@lists.einval.com. Visit
- http://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abcde-users
+ https://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abcde-users
to subscribe. Posts from non-subscribers are moderated to prevent
spam.
-Abcde's current page is at http://abcde.einval.com/ and the latest
-upstream code is in git at http://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git
+Abcde's current page is at https://abcde.einval.com/ and the latest
+upstream code is in git at https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git
--
-Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
-Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>
Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
+Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com>
abcde was originally created by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>