-# System defaults for abcde version 2.8.0
+# System defaults for abcde version 2.8.2
# Nothing in this file is uncommented by default.
#
# If you wish to override these system-wide settings, create your own
# .abcde.conf file in your home directory.
# CDDB options
-# Choose whether you want to use CDDB and/or Musicbrainz. Default is CDDB
-# but both can be specified in a comma delimited list to be tried sequentially
-# in the event of failure of the first search.
-#CDDBMETHOD=cddb
+# Choose whether you want to use "cddb" and/or "musicbrainz". Default
+# is "musicbrainz", but both can be specified in a comma delimited list
+# to be tried sequentially in the event of failure of the first
+# search.
+#CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz
# If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line.
# If you just wanted to use a proxy server, just set your http_proxy
# mpcenc - encoder for MPCENCODERSYNTAX
# wavpack, ffmpeg - encoder for WVENCODERSYNTAX
# mac - for APENCODERSYNTAX
-# faac, neroAacEnc, fdkaac, qaac, fhgaacenc, ffmpeg - for AACENCODERSYNTAX
+# fdkaac, ffmpeg, neroAacEnc, faac, qaac, fhgaacenc - for AACENCODERSYNTAX
# opusenc - for OPUSENCODERSYNTAX
# twolame, ffmpeg - for MP2ENCODERSYNTAX
# tta, ttaenc - for TTAENCODERSYNTAX
# default is a valid option for oggenc, lame, flac, speexenc, mpcenc, wavpack,
-# faac, opus, twolame and tta. Currently this affects the default location of the
+# fdkaac, opus, twolame and tta. Currently this affects the default location of the
# binary, the variable to pick encoder command-line options from, and where
# the options are given.
#MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=default
# "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/qaac/qaac.exe" is problematic. Try instead:
# "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/qaac/qaac.exe"
# Installation instructions for qaac, refalac and fhgaacenc here:
-# http://www.andrews-corner.org/qaac.html
-# http://www.andrews-corner.org/fhgaacenc.html
+# http://www.andrews-corner.org/linux/qaac.html
+# http://www.andrews-corner.org/linux/fhgaacenc.html
# (Hint: Use QAAC=refalac to use the Open Source alac encoder...)
#QAAC=qaac
#FHGAACENC=fhgaacenc
# to encode with error 'floating point exception'. This is flac
# error in get_console_width(), corrected in flac 1.3.1
#FLACOPTS="--silent"
-
+# Options passed to MetaFlac for ReplayGain tags:
+#FLACGAINOPTS="--add-replay-gain"
# Speex:
#SPEEXENCOPTS=
#APENCOPTS='-c4000'
# M4A/AAC
-# There are now 5 AAC encoders available to abcde. (FFmpeg
-# is also available for the m4a container...)
-# Note that the old AACENCOPTS has been rendered obsolete by
+# There are now 6 AAC encoders available to abcde, the default being
+# fdkaacenc. Note that the old AACENCOPTS has been rendered obsolete by
# the following options, new to abcde 2.7:
-# 1. faac: see 'faac --long-help' and consider
-# using '-q 250' for a good quality encode.
-#FAACENCOPTS=
-# 2. neroAacEnc: see 'neroAacEnc -help' and
-# consider using '-q 0.65' for a good quality encode.
-#NEROAACENCOPTS=
-# 3. fdkaac: see 'fdkaac --help' and consider using
+# 1. fdkaac: see 'fdkaac --help' and consider using
# '--profile 2 --bitrate-mode 5 --afterburner 1'
# for a good quality encode.
#FDKAACENCOPTS='--bitrate 192k'
-# 4. qaac: simply run 'wine qaac.exe' to see all options and
+# 2. FFmpeg: Use the following to use the FFmpeg native encoder, adding
+# -strict -2 if you have an older FFmpeg:
+# FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a aac -b:a 192k"
+# 3. neroAacEnc: see 'neroAacEnc -help' and
+# consider using '-q 0.65' for a good quality encode.
+#NEROAACENCOPTS=
+# 4. faac: see 'faac --long-help' and consider
+# using '-q 250' for a good quality encode.
+#FAACENCOPTS=
+# 5. qaac: simply run 'wine qaac.exe' to see all options and
# consider using '--tvbr 100' for a good quality
-# encode or '--alac' for Apple Lossless Audio Codec.
+# encode or '--alac' for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
#QAACENCOPTS=
-# 5. fhgaacenc: simply run 'wine fhgaacenc.exe' to see all options.
+# 6. fhgaacenc: simply run 'wine fhgaacenc.exe' to see all options.
# consider using '--vbr 4' for a decent quality encode.
#FHGAACENCOPTS=
#CDPARANOIAOPTS=
#CDDA2WAVOPTS=
#PIRDOPTS="-p"
+# Options for the CD ripper dagrab can be seen by running 'dagrab -h'.
+# A good option to experiment with is the 'sectors per request' setting
+# which by default is '-n 8'.
+#DAGRABOPTS=
#CDDAFSOPTS="-f"
#CDDBTOOLOPTS=
#EJECTOPTS=