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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,
+grabs tracks off a CD or a singletrack flac file with an embedded cuesheet,
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.
+Monkey's Audio (ape), MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or AIFF format, and tags
+them, all in one go.
-Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/M4A/Opus,WavPack/Ape/MPP's are, by default,
+Your finished Ogg/MP3/FLAC/Speex/M4A/Opus,WavPack/Ape/MPP/AIFF'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
Our_Lady_Peace/01.Supermans_Dead.ogg. This filename munging is customizable,
edit the mungefilename function in your abcde.conf to change it.
+abcde also has the ability to search for and download suitable album art as
+well as automatically embed the album art into the tracks of some containers.
+
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
for more help.
MAJOR CHANGES
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+Changes in 2.8.1
+* Fix for stupid bug introduced in abcde-musicbrainz-tool in 2.8
+
+Changes in 2.8
+* Add support for using multiple CD lookup services in order
+* Switch from cddb to musicbrainz as the default CD lookup service
+* Lots more bugs fixes - see the changes for more details.
+
+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.
* Added the possibility of embeding a cuesheet on a singletrack flac file. A
single BACKUP flag is most likely needed to use all the needed flags:
"abcde -1 -o flac -a default,cue"
-* Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embeded
+* Added the possibility of using a singletrack flac file with an embedded
cuesheet as a source to extract tracks from (use -X to specify an external
CUE2DISCID implementation; check under examples in the distributed source
code or package).
* (optional) distmp3, a client/server for distributed mp3 encoding.
You can get distmp3 at http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/medlprog.html
-Abcde's new mailing list is abcde-users@lists.einval.com. Visit
+Abcde's 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>