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abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that
-grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC or Ogg/Speex
-format, and tags them, all in one go.
+grabs tracks off a CD, 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's are, by default, stored in a subdirectory of
-the current directory (named after the artist) with a filename based on the
+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
encoding - to optimize for disk conservation, use -l.
abcde can also take advantage of SMP systems, just like make. Try
-'abcde -j 2' - it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next
-track.
+'abcde -j 2' - it'll run two encoder jobs while it rips the next track.
abcde now uses FreeDB by default. To use a different FreeDB mirror or
another CDDB service, change the CDDBURL option in your abcde.conf.
MAJOR CHANGES
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+Changes in 2.2-pre2:
+
+* Support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) format. It can be downloaded from
+ corecodecs.org. It is supposed to be Free (not only free), and released
+ under the GPL...
+* New "-s <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at
+ a given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
+* Support for keeping an existing playlist (and not add new entries to it),
+ erase the existing one (overwrite) or append new entries to the existing
+ one.
+* Under ./examples you will find a very basic way to make abcde run in the
+ background and start a non-interactive rip of a CD, if it can find an
+ audio CD in the tray.
+ The abcded script depends on eject and cdparanoia being installed in your
+ system.
+* New mungegenre function to switch off (or modify) the default behaviour of
+ transforming uppercase characters to lowercase.
+
+Changes in 2.2-pre1:
+
+* cdparanoia permits performing a query to the CD drive and obtain a list of
+ valid audio tracks. So, now we perform such query and process the results.
+* Support for "None of the above" has been added with the "0" selection. A
+ template is created, and the selection to edit it is defaulted to "y".
+
New options in 2.1.19:
* ONETRACK mode has been introduced. Setting the flag "-1" will create a
Options added/modified from 2.0.3 to 2.1.x:
-* -b use batch processing. It uses normalize to adjust the volume of the
- songs, and a -g gapless option from lame to remove gaps. Only available
+* -b use batch processing. It uses normalize-audio to adjust the volume of
+ the songs, and a -g gapless option from lame to remove gaps. Only available
for mp3+lame combination.
* a new "normalize" option has been added to -a, to normalize the volume.
* -o works now with a combination of the different outputs: ogg, mp3, flac.
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)
-* normalize for volume normalization.
+* Ogg/Speex encoder (speexenc) or:
+* MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoder (mppenc)
+* normalize-audio for volume normalization.
* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility,
* Or cdda2wav, the audio CD reading utility cdparanoia was born from,
* Or dagrab, another audio CD reading utility.