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. Reffer to that file
+FAQ, which should be distributed along with this package. Refer to that file
for more help.
MAJOR CHANGES
=============
+
+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