-# System defaults for abcde version 2.2.x
+# System defaults for abcde version 2.6.1
# Nothing in this file is uncommented by default.
#
# If you wish to override these system-wide settings, create your own
# CDDB options
# Choose whether you want to use CDDB or Musicbrainz. Default is CDDB
+# currently recognized options are 'cddb' and 'musicbrainz'
#CDDBMETHOD=cddb
# If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line.
# flac - the only supported for FLACENCODERSYNTAX at the moment
# speexenc - the only encoder for SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
# mpcenc - encoder for MPCENCODERSYNTAX
-# wavpack - encoder for WVENCODER
-# faac, neroAacEnc, fdkaac - for AACENCODER
-# opusenc - for OPUSENCODER
+# wavpack - encoder for WVENCODERSYNTAX
+# mac - for APENCODERSYNTAX
+# faac, neroAacEnc, fdkaac - for AACENCODERSYNTAX
+# opusenc - for OPUSENCODERSYNTAX
# default is a valid option for oggenc, lame, flac, speexenc, mpcenc, wavpack, faac and opus.
# Currently this affects the default location of the binary, the variable
# to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options are
#SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=default
#MPCENCODERSYNTAX=default
#WVENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#APENCODERSYNTAX=default
#AACENCODERSYNTAX=default
#OPUSENCODERSYNTAX=default
#DISTMP3NICE=10
# Paths of programs to use
+
+# Encoders:
#LAME=lame
#TOOLAME=toolame
#GOGO=gogo
#SPEEXENC=speexenc
#MPCENC=mpcenc
#WVENC=wavpack
-#AACENC=faac
+#APENC=mac
+#FAAC=faac
+#NEROAACENC=neroAacEnc
+#FDKAAC=fdkaac
#OPUSENC=opusenc
+# Taggers, rippers, replaygain etc:
#ID3=id3
#ID3V2=id3v2
#EYED3=eyeD3
#MKCUE=mkcue
#MKTOC=cdrdao
#DIFF=diff
+#WVGAIN=wvgain
+#APETAG=apetag
+#GLYRC=glyrc
# Options to call programs with:
#LAMEOPTS=
#TOOLAMEOPTS=
#GOGOOPTS=
+# Bladeenc still works with abcde in 2015, and the last release of bladeenc
+# was in 2001! Settings that will produce a great encode are: '-br 192'
#BLADEENCOPTS=
+# L3enc still works with abcde in 2015, pretty amazing when you realise
+# that the last release of l3enc was in 1997! Settings that will produce
+# a great encode are: '-br 256000 -hq -crc'
#L3ENCOPTS=
#XINGMP3ENCOPTS=
+# And mp3enc also still works with abcde in 2015 with the last release
+# of mp3enc in 1998! Settings that will produce a great encode, albeit
+# a slow one, are: '-v -br 256000 -qual 9 -no-is -bw 16500'
#MP3ENCOPTS=
# Ogg:
# Look at 'wavpack --help' for detailed options, consider using '-hx3'
# for a good quality encode
#WVENCOPTS=
+# For Wavpack replay gain we set both the default of 'track gain'
+# as well as this option for 'album gain'. Better media players
+# such as vlc can select either or neither.
+#WVGAINOPTS='-a'
+
+# Monkey's Audio (ape)
+# Without this set mac chokes unfortunately. Choices
+# are from 1000 to 5000.
+#APENCOPTS='-c4000'
# M4A/AAC
-# For faac options see 'faac --long-help' and consider
-# using '-q 250' for a good quality encode.
-# For neroAacEnc options see 'neroAacEnc -help' and
-# consider using '-q 0.65' for a good quality encode.
-# For fdkaac options see 'fdkaac --help' and consider using
-# '--profile 2 --bitrate-mode 5 --afterburner 1' for a
-# good quaity encode.
-#AACENCOPTS=
+# Note that the old AACENCOPTS has been rendered obsolete by
+# the following options, new to abcde 2.6.1:
+# 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
+# '--profile 2 --bitrate-mode 5 --afterburner 1'
+# for a good quality encode.
+#FDKAACENCOPTS='192k'
# OPUS
# For the encoder options look at: 'opusenc -h'
#OPUSENCOPTS=
+# mp3 tagging:
# There are three ways to tag MP3 files: id3v1 (with id3), id3v2.3
# (with id3v2) and id3v2.4 (with eyeD3). Use ID3TAGV to select one of
# the older formats
#ID3OPTS=
#ID3V2OPTS=
#EYED3OPTS="--set-encoding=utf16-LE"
+
+# Other options:
#CDPARANOIAOPTS=
#CDDA2WAVOPTS=
#PIRDOPTS="-p"
#DIFFOPTS=""
#VORBISCOMMENTOPTS="-R"
#METAFLACOPTS="--no-utf8-convert"
-#DIFFOPTS=""
# Actions to take
# Comma-separated list of one or more of the following:
-# cddb,cue,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean,default
+# cddb,cue,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,replaygain,playlist,getalbumart,clean,default
# encode implies read
# normalize implies read
# tag implies cddb,read,encode
# move implies cddb,read,encode,tag
+# replaygain implies cddb,read,encode,tag,move
# playlist implies cddb
# An action can be added to the "default" action by specifying it along with
# "default", without having to repeat the default ones:
# OUTPUTTYPE can be any of a number of formats, either a single format
# (e.g. "ogg") or a combination of them separated with ","
# (e.g. "flac,mp3"). Currently recognised and supported are:
-# "flac", "m4a", "mp3, "mpc", "ogg", "opus", "spx", "vorbis", "wav", "wv"
+# "flac", "m4a", "mp3, "mpc", "ogg", "opus", "spx", "vorbis", "wav", "wv", "ape"
#OUTPUTTYPE=ogg
# Output filename format - change this to reflect your inner desire to
#(some hardware players insist on CR-LF line-endings)
#DOSPLAYLIST=n
+# album art download options (see glyrc's help for details with more detailed
+# examples here: https://github.com/sahib/glyr/wiki/Commandline-arguments).
+# These options: '--from <provider>' and '--lang <langcode>' might also be useful
+#GLYRCOPTS="--formats jpg;jpeg"
+#ALBUMARTFILE="cover.jpg"
+
# Custom filename munging:
# By default, abcde will do the following to CDDB data to get a useful
# filename: