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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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+(see changelog for more details)
+
+Changes in 2.9.4
+* ...
+
+Changes in 2.9.3
+* Small bug fixes
+
+Changes in 2.9.2
+* More fixes to Musicbrainz code
+
+Changes in 2.9.1
+* Fixes in Musicbrainz code
+
+Changes in 2.9
+* Allow for embedding of album art downloaded by the getalbumart fuction
+* Add support for another output encoding: Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
+* Reworked CD lookup code to fully support using all of CDDB,
+ Musicbrainz and CD-Text
+* Correct Musicbrainz ID calculation for discs where PREGAP is non-zero
+* Add initial Irix support
+* Musicbrainz support now depends on WebService::MusicBrainz 1.x to
+ support the v2 MusicBrainz web API
+* Major refactoring and shell quoting fixes
+* Many other bug fixes - see the changelog for a full list
+
+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
* 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).