.TH abcde 1
.SH NAME
abcde \- Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, AAC,
-WavPack, Monkey's Audio (ape) and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
+WavPack, Monkey's Audio (ape), MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or MP2 format.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B abcde
.I [options] [tracks]
tagging or commenting it, is very involved.
.BR abcde
is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into
-a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless
+a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3), Free Lossless
Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A (AAC) wv (WavPack),
-Monkey's Audio (ape) or Opus format(s).
+Monkey's Audio (ape), Opus or MPEG Audio Layer II (MP2) format(s).
With one command, it will:
.TP
.B *
.TP
.B *
Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A, wv (WavPack),
-Monkey's Audio (ape) and/or Opus format(s), all in one CD read
+Monkey's Audio (ape), Opus format(s) and/or MP2, all in one CD read
.TP
.B *
Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
Specifies the style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At this point only
\'flac\' is available for FLAC encoding.
.TP
+.B MP2ENCODERSYNTAX
+Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2) encoder.
+At this point only \'twolame\' is available for MP2 encoding.
+.TP
.B SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this point only
\'speexenc\' is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
.TP
.B AACENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. We support \'faac\'
-as \'default\' as well as higher quality audio with neroAacEnc and fdkaac.
+as \'default\' as well as higher quality audio with neroAacEnc, fdkaac, qaac,fhgaacenc
+and FFmpeg or avconv. If qaac, refalac or FFmpeg / avconv are used it is also possible
+to generate Apple Lossless Audio Codec (alac) files. Note that qaac, refalac and fhgaacenc
+are Windows applications which require Wine to be installed.
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.B WVENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for WavPack. We support \'wavpack\'
-as \'default\'.
+as \'default\' but \'ffmpeg'\ is the other option (Note that this is for
+FFmpeg only as avconv does not have a native WavPack encoder).
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.B APENCODERSYNTAX
Specifies the style of encoder to use for Monkey's Audio (ape). We support \'mac\',
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.B PATHNAMES
The following configuration file options specify the pathnames of their
-respective utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
-VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPCENC, AACENC, WVENC, APENC, OPUSENC, ID3, EYED3,
+respective utilities: LAME, GOGO, BLADEENC, L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC, MP3ENC,
+VORBIZE, OGGENC, FLAC, SPEEXENC, MPCENC, WAVEPACK, APENC, OPUSENC, ID3, EYED3,
METAFLAC, CDPARANOIA, CD_PARANOIA, CDDA2WAV, PIRD, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL,
EJECT, MD5SUM, DISTMP3, VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN,
MPCGAIN, MKCUE, MKTOC, CUE2DISCID (see option "\-X"), DIFF, HTTPGET, GLYRC,
-IDENTIFY, DISPLAYCMD and CONVERT.
+IDENTIFY, DISPLAYCMD, CONVERT, QAAC, WINE, FHGAACENC, ATOMICPARSLEY, FFMPEG,
+TWOLAME and MID3V2.
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.B COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
If you wish to specify command-line options to any of the programs \fBabcde\fR uses,
-set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, TOOLAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
-BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, WVENCOPTS, APENCOPTS,
+set the following configuration file options: LAMEOPTS, GOGOOPTS,
+BLADEENCOPTS, L3ENCOPTS, XINGMP3ENCOPTS, MP3ENCOPTS, VORBIZEOPTS, WAVEPACKENCOPTS, APENCOPTS,
OGGENCOPTS, FLACOPTS, SPEEXENCOPTS, MPCENCOPTS, FAACENCOPTS, NEROAACENCOPTS, FDKAACENCOPTS,
OPUSENCOPTS, ID3OPTS, EYED3OPTS, MP3GAINOPTS, CDPARANOIAOPTS, CDDA2WAVOPTS, PIRDOPTS,
CDDAFSOPTS, CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJECTOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,
VORBISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS, DIFFOPTS, FLACGAINOPTS, VORBISGAINOPTS, HTTPGETOPTS,
-GLYRCOPTS, IDENTIFYOPTS, CONVERTOPTS and DISPLAYCMDOPTS.
+GLYRCOPTS, IDENTIFYOPTS, CONVERTOPTS, DISPLAYCMDOPTS, QAACENCOPTS, FHGAACENCOPTS,
+ATOMICPARSLEYOPTS, FFMPEGENCOPTS and TWOLAMENCOPTS.
.TP
.B CDSPEEDVALUE
Set the value of the CDROM speed. The default is to read the disc as fast as
Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the default extension and
encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are "vorbis" (or "ogg")
(Ogg/Vorbis), "mp3" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "flac" (Free Lossless Audio
-Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)), "m4a" (AAC)),
-"wv" (WavPack", "wav" (Microsoft Waveform) or "opus" (Opus Interactive Audio Codec). Values
-like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. For example
+Codec), "mp2" (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), "spx" (Ogg/Speex), "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack),
+"m4a" (AAC or ALAC),"wv" (WavPack"), "wav" (Microsoft Waveform) or "opus"
+(Opus Interactive Audio Codec). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in both
+Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats. For example:
.br
OUTPUTTYPE=vorbis,flac
.br
For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, \fBabcde\fR expands a different process for encoding,
tagging and moving, so you can use the format placeholder, OUTPUT, to create
different subdirectories to hold the different types. The variable OUTPUT will
-be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a', 'wv', 'ape' and/or 'wav', depending on the
+be 'vorbis', 'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a', mp2, 'wv', 'ape' and/or 'wav', depending on the
OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
.br
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
.B mungefilename
mungefilename() is an \fBabcde\fR shell function that can be overridden via
\fIabcde.conf\fR. It takes CDDB data as $1 and outputs the resulting filename on
-stdout. It defaults to eating control characters, apostrophes and
-question marks, translating spaces and forward slashes to underscores, and
-translating colons to an underscore and a hyphen.
+stdout. It defaults to deleting any preceding dots to filename, replacing spaces
+with an underscore and eating characters which variously Windows and Linux do
+not permit.
.br
If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to keep the forward
slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/' char in it) as well as
101, and will add a comment "CD 1" to the tracks, the second starting with 201
and so on.
.TP
-.B abcde \-d singletrack.flac
-Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embedded cuesheet.
+.B abcde \-d singletrack.flac -o vorbis:"-q 6"
+Will extract the files contained in singletrack FLAC file using the embedded
+cuesheet and then encode the output files to Ogg/Vorbis with a quality setting of 6.
.SH BACKEND TOOLS
\fBabcde\fR requires the following backend tools to work:
.TP
.BR cd-paranoia (1)
.BR icedax (1),
.BR cdda2wav (1),
+.BR twolame (1),
+.BR mid3v2 (1),
.BR pird (1),
.BR dagrab (1),
.BR normalize-audio (1),
.BR oggenc (1),
.BR vorbize (1),
.BR flac (1),
-.BR toolame (1),
.BR speexenc (1),
.BR mpcenc (1),
.BR faac (1),
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>,
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>,
-Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> and contributions from many others.
+Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>,
+Andrew Strong <andrew.david.strong@gmail.com> and contributions from many others.