https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git
Q. When are you going to release a new version?
-A. When it is ready. I keep on having new ideas and adding them to the trunk
- (stored in the URL above), so I dont release until all the ideas are
- finished.
+A. When it is ready. :-) We keep on adding new ideas to the trunk
+ (stored in the URL above) and release periodically when we think
+ it's due.
2. EXECUTION
Q. (Thanks to Amaya) Where are those options and settings defined? Why dont
you include a proper abcde.conf as an example?
-A. I do. It should be installed under /etc/abcde.conf and contains more or
+A. We do. It should be installed under /etc/abcde.conf and contains more or
less all the defaults abcde uses. You can use $(HOME)/.abcde.conf to
override those defaults. More information can be obtained from the man page
which can be consulted using "man abcde".
it.
A. From version 2.2 onwards, abcde includes some checkings with cdparanoia, to
try to get this right.
- (It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. Right now, I can only think
- of getting the track info from CDDB and ask the user for continuing should
- a "data" track name is found. But the solution is far from been optimal.
- For now, if you find a "data" track and you know the number, restart abcde
- specifying the tracks to be encoded, leaving out the data one).
+ (It is not easy to find a data track on a CD. If you find a "data"
+ track and you know the number, restart abcde specifying the tracks
+ to be encoded, leaving out the data one).
Q. I am requested to have "eject" when setting the speed although I do not use
it for anything.
and net broadcasters have to pay license fees), some release engineering
groups and release management teams have decided not to provide MP3 encoding
tools.
- These distributions or operative systems have decided to use Ogg/Vorbis as
+ These distributions or operating systems have decided to use Ogg/Vorbis as
the default encoding format, since it contains no (known) patent claims
and they are (supposed to be) completely Free (released under a BSD-like
license).
support, or by just installing it later from the ports tree.
NetBSD : Available in pkgsrc.
- Others : Please, help me here.
+ Others : Please, help us here.
Q. Huh! Why is MPPENCODER (with MPP) and .mpc the extension?
A. Dunno. You must ask the guys who created and defined the format. The
Q. What happened with normalize?
A. Normalize has changed its name under Debian, which is the GNU/Linux
distribution for developing abcde (well, is The GNU/Linux Distribution
- i only use, at the moment). Now it is called normalize-audio.
+ Steve uses, at the moment). Now it is called normalize-audio.
If you are using some other flavour of OS, you need to change the name
of the executable in your abcde.conf file.