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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,
-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.
+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), 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/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
+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.
+
+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. Reffer to that file
+FAQ, which should be distributed along with this package. Refer to that file
for more help.
MAJOR CHANGES
=============
+
+Changes in 2.9
+* 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
+* 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.
+* 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
+
+Changes in 2.5:
+* Added working support for Musicbrainz using a perl helper script.
+
Changes in 2.4:
* Read TOC entries from the CD. The default uses cdrdao. The program mkcue is
also optional.
* Possibility to use CDDBCHOICE1,CDDBCHOICE2 (i.e., 1,3) to get a diff of two
parsed CDDB entries.
-* Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to define wether to show the YEAR and GENRE fields from
+* Added SHOWCDDBFIELDS to define whether to show the YEAR and GENRE fields from
the CDDB output.
* 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).
* Added -z for debug.
* Added -f to force the removal of left files.
* CUE support has changed from a flag (-M) to an action (cue).
-
+
Changes in 2.3:
* Support for mkcue, to create a CUE sheet of the CD structure. It can be used
with "-1" to create a backup, so that later the original CD can be recreated.
corecodecs.org. It is supposed to be Free (not only free), and released under
the GPL...
* New "-t <number>" option for starting the numbering of the output files at a
- given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
+ given starting number. Ideal for albums with more than one CD.
* New "-T <number>" option, similar to "-t" but also modifies the tag entries
on the files themselves.
* New "-w <COMMENT>" to add a comment to the tracks of a given CD rip. Use
system.
* New mungegenre function to switch off (or modify) the default behaviour of
transforming uppercase characters to lowercase.
-* cdparanoia permits performing a query to the CD drive and obtain a list of
+* 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
+* 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
single file with all the tracks from the CD.
-
+
Changes in 2.1.18:
* CDSPEED option defaults to eject. However, since cdparanoia has a built-in
* Initial (still incomplete) MacOSX support is on the works.
* A new tool (curl) has been added for MacOSX compatibility, as HTTPGET
option.
-
+
Options modified from 2.1.8 to 2.1.9:
* KEEPWAVS option now sets the clean to "no".
Options added/modified from 2.0.3 to 2.1.x:
-* -b use batch processing. It uses normalize-audio to adjust the volume of
+* -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.
OUTPUTFORMAT to create different directory structures and playlist names for
each of the output formats selected.
-* DYEAR can be used as DiskYear value in CDDB data. If the data is not supplied
+* DYEAR can be used as DiskYear value in CDDB data. If the data is not supplied
by the CDDB server, it can be added.
Other options that changed from 1.x to 2.x:
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
* An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (MacOSX)
* id3, an id3 tagging program. Available at: http://lly.org/~rcw/id3/
-* id3v2, an id3 version 2.0 tagger. http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/
+* eyeD3, an id3 version 2.0 tagger. http://eyed3.nicfit.net/
* (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://code.google.com/p/abcde/
+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>
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