-# System defaults for abcde version 2.1.x
+# 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 "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
# environment variable - wget will use it correctly.
#CDDBURL="http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"
+# The CDDB protocol level.
+# Right now 5 is latin1 output and 6 is UTF8 encoding.
+#CDDBPROTO=6
+
# The CDDB protocol requires hello information, including a valid username
# and hostname. If you feel paranoid about giving away such info, edit this
# line - the format is username@hostname.
# are cached locally in $CDDBLOCALDIR
#CDDBCOPYLOCAL="n"
#CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
+#CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="y"
+
+# If NOSUBMIT is set to y, then abcde will never prompt asking if you
+# wish to submit your edited cddb file.
+#NOSUBMIT=n
+
+# If NOCDDBQUERY is set to y, then abcde will never even try to access
+# the CDDB server; running abcde will automatically drop you into a
+# blank cddb file to edit at your leisure. This is the same as the
+# -n option. NOCDDBQUERY=y implies NOSUBMIT=y.
+#NOCDDBQUERY=n
# Select here if you want to use the locally stored CDDB entries.
-# This is useful if you do a lot of editing to those CDDB entries.
+# This is useful if you do a lot of editing to those CDDB entries.
# Also, other tools like Grip store CDDB entries under $HOME/.cddb,
-# so they can be reused when ripping CDs.
+# so they can be reused when ripping CDs. (If this is set to "y" make
+# sure that CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE is also set to "y".)
#CDDBUSELOCAL="n"
-# Specify the style of encoder to use here -
+# List, separated with a comma, the fields we want the parsing function to
+# output. Defaults to YEAR and GENRE, for a complete list of fields provided by
+# CDDB.
+# The fields are not case sensitive. Actually, "y,g" will work as fine as "Y,G"
+# or "YEAR, GENRE"
+#SHOWCDDBFIELDS=year,genre
+
+# Specify the style of encoder to use here -
# oggenc, vorbize - for OGGENCODERSYNTAX
# lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3enc - for MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
-# flac - the only supported for FLACENCODERSYNTAX at the moment.
-# default is a valid option for oggenc, lame and flac.
-# Currently this affects the default location of the binary, the variable
-# to pick encoder command-line options from, and where the options are
-# given.
-# 'default' will currently choose oggenc or lame depending on OUTPUTTYPE.
+# flac - the only supported for FLACENCODERSYNTAX at the moment
+# speexenc - the only encoder for SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
+# mpcenc - encoder for MPCENCODERSYNTAX
+# wavpack, ffmpeg - encoder for WVENCODERSYNTAX
+# mac - for APENCODERSYNTAX
+# fdkaac, ffmpeg, neroAacEnc, faac, qaac, fhgaacenc - for AACENCODERSYNTAX
+# opusenc - for OPUSENCODERSYNTAX
+# twolame, ffmpeg - for MP2ENCODERSYNTAX
+# tta, ttaenc - for TTAENCODERSYNTAX
+# ffmpeg - for AIFFENCODERSYNTAX
+# default is a valid option for oggenc, lame, flac, speexenc, mpcenc, wavpack,
+# 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
#OGGENCODERSYNTAX=default
#FLACENCODERSYNTAX=default
#SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX=default
-#MPPENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#MKAENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#MPCENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#WVENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#APENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#AACENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#OPUSENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#MP2ENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#TTAENCODERSYNTAX=default
+#AIFFENCODERSYNTAX=default
# Specify the syntax of the normalize binary here - so far only 'normalize'
# is supported.
#NORMALIZERSYNTAX=default
# CD reader program to use - currently recognized options are 'cdparanoia',
-# 'cdda2wav', 'dagrab' and 'cddafs' (Mac OS X only).
+# 'libcdio' (cd-paranoia),'icedax', 'cdda2wav', 'dagrab', 'pird',
+# 'cddafs' (Mac OS X only) and 'flac'.
#CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
+# CUE reader syntax for the CUE reader program to use.
+# abcde supports 2 CUE modes: 'mkcue' and 'abcde.mkcue' so you can set the
+# MKCUE variable accordingly. The 'abcde.mkcue' uses an internal
+# implementation, without the need of an external program.
+#CUEREADERSYNTAX=default
+
+# Specify the program to convert a CUE sheet back to a CD disc ID for CDDB queries.
+# Select between '/path/to/cue2discid' (provided as an example) or
+# 'abcde.cue2discid', implemented internaly.
+#CUE2DISCID=abcde.cue2discid
+
# Keep the wav files after encoding. Set it to "y" and remove "clean" from
# the list of default actions, since we purge the temp directory as default.
#KEEPWAVS=n
# 01.my_song.ext
#PADTRACKS=n
+# Define if you want abcde to be non-interactive.
+# Keep in mind that there is no way to deactivate it right now in the command
+# line, so setting this option makes abcde to be always non-interactive.
+#INTERACTIVE=n
+
# Specify 'nice'ness of the encoder, the CD reader and the distmp3 proc.
# This is a relative 'nice'ness (that is, if the parent process is at a
# nice level of 12, and the ENCNICE is set to 3, then the encoder will
#DISTMP3NICE=10
# Paths of programs to use
+
+# Encoders:
#LAME=lame
#GOGO=gogo
#BLADEENC=bladeenc
#OGGENC=oggenc
#FLAC=flac
#SPEEXENC=speexenc
-#MPPENC=mppenc
-
+#MPCENC=mpcenc
+#WVENC=wavpack
+#APENC=mac
+#FAAC=faac
+#NEROAACENC=neroAacEnc
+#FDKAAC=fdkaac
+#OPUSENC=opusenc
+#TWOLAME=twolame
+# Note that if you use avconv rather than FFmpeg give the
+# path to avconv here (e.g. FFMPEG=/usr/bin/avconv):
+# FFMPEG=ffmpeg
+#TTA=tta
+#TTAENC=ttaenc
+
+# The path for qaac, refalac and fhgaacenc can be problematic as abcde
+# cannot cope with the 'standard' Wine location with spaces. For example:
+# "$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/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
+
+# Taggers, rippers, replaygain etc:
#ID3=id3
#ID3V2=id3v2
+#MID3V2=mid3v2
+#EYED3=eyeD3
#CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia
-#CDDA2WAV=cdda2wav
+#CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia
+#CDDA2WAV=icedax
+#PIRD=pird
#CDDAFS=cp
#CDDISCID=cd-discid
#CDDBTOOL=cddb-tool
#MD5SUM=md5sum
#DISTMP3=distmp3
#VORBISCOMMENT=vorbiscomment
-#NORMALIZE=normalize
+#METAFLAC=metaflac
+#NORMALIZE=normalize-audio
#CDSPEED=eject
+#VORBISGAIN=vorbisgain
+#MKCUE=mkcue
+#MKTOC=cdrdao
+#DIFF=diff
+#WVGAIN=wvgain
+#WVTAG=wvtag
+#APETAG=apetag
+#GLYRC=glyrc
+#IDENTIFY=identify
+#CONVERT=convert
+#DISPLAYCMD=display
+#WINE=wine
# Options to call programs with:
-# If HTTPGET is modified, the HTTPGETOPTS options should also be defined
+# If HTTPGET is modified, the HTTPGETOPTS options should also be defined
# accordingly. If HTTPGET is changed, the default options will be set,
# if HTTPGETOPTS is empty or not defined.
#HTTPGET=wget
# for fetch (FreeBSD): HTTPGETOPTS="-q -o -"
-# for wget: HTTPGETOPTS="-q -O -"
+# for wget: HTTPGETOPTS="-q -nv -O -"
# for curl (MacOSX): HTTPGETOPTS="-f -s"
#HTTPGETOPTS="-q -O -"
# MP3:
+# For the best LAME encoder options have a look at:
+# <http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME#Recommended_encoder_settings>
+# A good option is '-V 0' which gives Variable Bitrate Rate (VBR) recording
+# with a target bitrate of ~245 Kbps and a bitrate range of 220...260 Kbps.
#LAMEOPTS=
#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:
#OGGENCOPTS=
# FLAC:
-#FLACOPTS=
-
+# The flac option is a workaround for an error where flac fails
+# 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=
# MPP/MP+ (Musepack):
-#MPPENCOPTS=
-
+# For the encoder options look at 'mpcenc --longhelp', consider
+# setting '--extreme' for a good quality encode.
+#MPCENCOPTS=
+
+# WavPack:
+# Look at 'wavpack --help' for detailed options, consider using '-hx3'
+# for a good quality encode
+#WAVENCOPTS=
+# 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'
+
+#AIFF
+# These options needed by FFmpeg for tagging and selection of id3v2 version:
+# 1. '-write_id3v2 1' allows id3v2 tagging while '-write_id3v2 0' disables tagging
+# 2. '-id3v2_version 4' gives version id3v2.4 while '3' gives id3v2.3
+#AIFFENCOPTS="-write_id3v2 1 -id3v2_version 4"
+
+# M4A/AAC
+# 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. fdkaac: see 'fdkaac --help' and consider using
+# '--profile 2 --bitrate-mode 5 --afterburner 1'
+# for a good quality encode.
+#FDKAACENCOPTS='--bitrate 192k'
+# 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
+#QAACENCOPTS=
+# 6. fhgaacenc: simply run 'wine fhgaacenc.exe' to see all options.
+# consider using '--vbr 4' for a decent quality encode.
+#FHGAACENCOPTS=
+
+# True Audio
+# This is a lossless format so no options of any note available:
+#TTAENCOPTS=
+
+# OPUS
+# For the encoder options look at: 'opusenc -h'
+#OPUSENCOPTS=
+
+# MP2
+# Currently uses either twolame or ffmpeg, for twolame options look at:
+# 'twolame --help',a highly recommended setting is "--bitrate 320".
+#TWOLAMENCOPTS=
+
+# FFmpeg or avconv can be used for several audio codecs, as well as being
+# the default encoder for the Matroska container mka::
+# 1. Encoding to WavPack (FFmpeg only: avconv does not have a native encoder).
+# Consider setting the following with a compression_level between 0-8:
+# FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a wavpack -compression_level 6"
+# 2. Encoding to ALAC (both FFmpeg and avconv have a native encoder).
+# Consider using the following for either FFmpeg and avconv:
+# FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a alac"
+# 3. Encoding to mp2
+# Consider using the following for either FFmpeg and avconv:
+# FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a mp2 -b:a 320k"
+#FFMPEGENCOPTS=
+
+# mp3 tagging:
+# There are three ways to tag MP3 files:
+# 1. id3v1 (with id3)
+# 2. id3v2.3 (with id3v2)
+# 3. id3v2.4 (with eyeD3) This is the default
+# Use ID3TAGV to select one of the older formats:
+#ID3TAGV=id3v2.4
#ID3OPTS=
#ID3V2OPTS=
+#EYED3OPTS="--set-encoding=utf16-LE"
+
+# Other options:
+# The variable CDPARANOIOPTS is also used by GNU's cd-paranoia,
+# so use this when setting CDROMREADERSYNTX=libcdio.
#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=
#NORMALIZEOPTS=
#CDSPEEDOPTS="-x"
#CDSPEEDVALUE=""
+#MKCUEOPTS=""
+#MKTOCOPTS=""
+#DIFFOPTS=""
+#VORBISCOMMENTOPTS="-R"
+#METAFLACOPTS="--no-utf8-convert"
+# Bear in mind that the AtomicParsley option '--overWrite' is already
+# used in abcde...
+#ATOMICPARSLEYOPTS=
# Actions to take
# Comma-separated list of one or more of the following:
-# cddb,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean
+# cddb,cue,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,replaygain,playlist,getalbumart,embedalbumart,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
-# The default action list is defined in the following comment.
+# embedalbumart implies getalbumart
+# An action can be added to the "default" action by specifying it along with
+# "default", without having to repeat the default ones:
+# ACTIONS=default,playlist
+# The default action list (referenced as "default") is defined in the following
+# comment:
#ACTIONS=cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean
-# CDDB options
-# If NOSUBMIT is set to y, then abcde will never prompt asking if you
-# wish to submit your edited cddb file.
-#NOSUBMIT=n
-# If NOCDDBQUERY is set to y, then abcde will never even try to access
-# the CDDB server; running abcde will automatically drop you into a
-# blank cddb file to edit at your leisure. This is the same as the
-# -n option. NOCDDBQUERY=y implies NOSUBMIT=y.
-#NOCDDBQUERY=n
-
# CD device you want to read from
+# It can be defined as a singletrack flac file, but since it might change from
+# file to file it makes little sense to define it here.
#CDROM=/dev/cdrom
+# If we are using the IDE bus, we need CDPARANOIACDROMBUS defined as "d"
+# If we are using the ide-scsi emulation layer, we need to define a "g"
+#CDPARANOIACDROMBUS="d"
# If you'd like to make a default location that overrides the current
# directory for putting mp3's, uncomment this.
# you can specify that here
#WAVOUTPUTDIR=`pwd`
-# OUTPUTTYPE can be either "ogg", "mp3", "flac" or "spx", or a combination
-# of them separated with ",": "ogg,mp3".
+# 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", "mka", "spx", "vorbis", "wav", "wv", "ape", "aiff"
#OUTPUTTYPE=ogg
# Output filename format - change this to reflect your inner desire to
# organize things differently than everyone else :)
# You have the following variables at your disposal:
-# OUTPUT, GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE, and TRACKNUM.
+# OUTPUT, GENRE, ALBUMFILE, ARTISTFILE, TRACKFILE, TRACKNUM and YEAR.
# Make sure to single-quote this variable. abcde will automatically create
# the directory portion of this filename.
# NOTICE: OUTPUTTYPE has been deprecated in the OUTPUTFORMAT string.
#OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
# Like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs.
-#VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}/${TRACKFILE}'
+#VAOUTPUTFORMAT='Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
+
+# Like OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT but for the ONEFILE rips.
+#ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT=$OUTPUTFORMAT
+#VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT=$VAOUTPUTFORMAT
# Define how many encoders to run at once. This makes for huge speedups
# on SMP systems. Defaults to 1. Equivalent to -j.
# y: No parallelization (rip, encode, rip, encode...)
#LOWDISK=n
+# If set to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves relative
+# volume differences between tracks of an album.
+#BATCHNORM=n
+
+# Enables nogap encoding when using the 'lame' encoder.
+#NOGAP=y
+
# Set the playlist file location format. Uses the same variables and format
# as OUTPUTFORMAT. If the playlist is specified to be in a subdirectory, it
# will be created for you and the playlist will reference files from that
#(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).
+# For example use '--formats jpg;jpeg' to only search for JPEG images
+# These options: '--from <provider>' and '--lang <langcode>' might also be useful
+#GLYRCOPTS=
+#ALBUMARTFILE="cover.jpg"
+#ALBUMARTTYPE="JPEG"
+
+# Options for ImageMagick commands used by album art processing when available
+# For example: CONVERTOPTS="-colorspace RGB -resize 600x600>"
+# to make the image RGB and fit inside 600x600 while keeping the aspect ratio
+#IDENTIFYOPTS=
+#CONVERTOPTS=
+#DISPLAYCMDOPTS="-resize 512x512 -title abcde_album_art"
+# By default convert is only called when the image type is different from
+# ALBUMARTTYPE, use ALBUMARTALWAYSCONVERT="y" to always call convert
+#ALBUMARTALWAYSCONVERT="n"
+
# Custom filename munging:
-# By default, abcde will do the following to CDDB data to get a useful
-# filename:
-# * Translate colons to a space and a dash for Windows compatibility
-# * Eat control characters, single quotes, and question marks
-# * Translate spaces and forward slashes to underscores
-# * Translate stars into pluses.
-# To change that, redefine the mungefilename function.
-# mungefilename recieves the CDDB data (artist, track, title, whatever)
-# as $1 and outputs it on stdout.
+# By default, abcde will do the following to CDDB data to get a useful filename:
+# 1. Delete any dots preceding the title (first sed command)
+# 2. Replace all spaces with an underscore (second sed command). Simply remove
+# this if you prefer spaces.
+# 3. Delete a grab bag of characters which variously Windows and Linux do not permit
+# (tr command). Remove any of these from the list if you wish to actually use them.
+#
#mungefilename ()
#{
-# echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ /\* __+ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
+# echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^\.*//' -e 's/ /_/g' | tr -d ":><|*/\"'?[:cntrl:]"
+#}
+#
+# Custom filename munging specific to track names:
+# By default this function will call the mungefilename function.
+#mungetrackname ()
+#{
+# mungefilename $@
+#}
+#
+# Custom filename munging specific to artist names:
+# By default this function will call the mungefilename function.
+#mungeartistname ()
+#{
+# mungefilename $@
+#}
+#
+# Custom filename munging specific to album names:
+# By default this function will call the mungefilename function.
+#mungealbumname ()
+#{
+# mungefilename $@
#}
# Custom genre munging:
# By default we just transform uppercase to lowercase. Not much of a fancy
-# function, with not much use, but one can disable it ot just turn the first
+# function, with not much use, but one can disable it or just turn the first
# Uppercase.
#mungegenre ()
#{
# Custom pre-read function
# By default it does nothing.
-# You can set some things to get abcde funtion in better ways:
-# * Close the CD tray using eject -t (if available in eject and supported by
+# You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
+# * Close the CD tray using eject -t (if available in eject and supported by
# your CD device.
-# * Set the CD speed. You can also use the built-in options, but you can also
+# * Set the CD speed. You can also use the built-in options, but you can also
# set it here. In Debian, eject -x and cdset -x do the job.
# KEEP IN MIND that executables included in pre_read must be in your $PATH or
# you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
+# Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
#pre_read ()
#{
#:
#}
+# Custom post-read function
+# By default it does nothing.
+# You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
+# * Store a copy of the CD TOC.
+# KEEP IN MIND that executables included in post_read must be in your $PATH or
+# you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
+# Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
+#post_read ()
+#{
+#:
+#}
+
+# post_encode
+# By default it does nothing.
+# You can set some things to get abcde function in better ways:
+# * Move the resulting directory over the network
+# * Compare results with a previously made run, for tests
+# KEEP IN MIND that executables included in post_encode must be in your $PATH or
+# you have to define them with full /path/to/binary
+# Uncomment and substitute the ":" with your commands.
+#post_encode ()
+#{
+#:
+#}
+
# If you'd like to have abcde eject the cdrom after all the tracks have been
# read, uncomment the following line.
#EJECTCD=y
# on the local machine (requires distmp3 to be installed on local machine and
# distmp3host to be installed and running on all remote machines - see README)
#REMOTEHOSTS=foo,bar,baz,quux,qiix
+
+# Set to 1,2, etc. to obtain some information about actions happening in the background
+# Useful if you have a slow network or CDDB servers seem unresponsive.
+#EXTRAVERBOSE=0