1abcde(1)                    General Commands Manual                   abcde(1)
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NAME

6       abcde  -  Grab  an  entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC,
7       Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.
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SYNOPSIS

10       abcde options] [tracks]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding  it,
14       then  tagging or commenting it, is very involved.  abcde is designed to
15       automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert  it  into  a  com‐
16       pressed  audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless
17       Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or M4A (AAC)  for‐
18       mat(s).  With one command, it will:
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20       *      Do  a  CDDB  query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a
21              locally stored CDDB entry
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23       *      Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
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25       *      Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album  as  a
26              single unit)
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28       *      Compress  to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack)
29              and/or M4A format(s), all in one CD read
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31       *      Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
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33       *      Give an intelligible filename
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35       *      Calculate replaygain values for  the  individual  file  (or  the
36              album as a single unit)
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38       *      Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
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40       *      Repeat until finished
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42       Alternatively,  abcde can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC
43       file with an embedded cuesheet which can be user later on as  a  source
44       for other formats, and will be treated as if it was the original CD. In
45       a way, abcde can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
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OPTIONS

48       -1     Encode the whole CD in a single file. The  resulting  file  uses
49              the CD title for tagging. If the resulting format is a flac file
50              with an embedded cuesheet, the file can be used as a source  for
51              creating other formats. Use "-1 -M -o flac" for obtaining such a
52              file.
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54       -a [actions]
55              Comma-delimited list of actions to perform. Can be one  or  more
56              of:  cddb,  cue, read, normalize, encode, tag, move, replaygain,
57              playlist, clean. Normalize and encode imply  read.  Tag  implies
58              cddb,  read,  encode.  Move  implies  cddb,  read,  encode, tag.
59              Replaygain implies cddb, read, encode, tag and  move.   Playlist
60              implies cddb. The default is to do all actions except normalize,
61              replaygain and playlist.
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63       -b     Enable batch mode normalization. See the BATCHNORM configuration
64              variable.
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66       -B     Disable  batch mode replaygain. It processes file by file to add
67              the replaygain information. See the NOBATCHREPLAYGAIN configura‐
68              tion variable.
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70       -c [filename]
71              Specifies  an additional configuration file to parse. Configura‐
72              tion options in this file override those in  /etc/abcde.conf  or
73              $HOME/.abcde.conf.
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75       -C [discid]
76              Allows  you  to  resume  a session for discid when you no longer
77              have the CD available (abcde will automatically  resume  if  you
78              still  have the CD in the drive). You must have already finished
79              at least the "read" action during the previous session.
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81       -d [devicename | filename]
82              CD-ROM block device that  contains  audio  tracks  to  be  read.
83              Alternatively, a single-track flac file with embedded cuesheet.
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85       -D     Capture  debugging  information  (you'll want to redirect this -
86              try 'abcde -D 2>logfile')
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88       -e     Erase information about encoded tracks from the internal  status
89              file, to enable other encodings if the wav files have been kept.
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91       -f     Force  the removal of the temporary ABCDETEMPDIR directory, even
92              when we have not finished. For example, one can read and  encode
93              several formats, including ´.ogg´, and later on execute a ´move´
94              action with only one of the given formats. On a normal situation
95              it  would erase the rest of those encoded formats. In this case,
96              abcde will refuse to execute such command, except if -f is used.
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98       -g     Enable lame's --nogap option.  See the NOGAP variable.  WARNING:
99              lame's  --nogap disables the Xing mp3 tag.  This tag is required
100              for mp3 players to correctly display track lengths when  playing
101              variable-bit-rate mp3 files.
102
103       -h     Get help information.
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105       -j [number]
106              Start  [number]  encoder  processes at once. Useful for SMP sys‐
107              tems. Overrides the MAXPROCS configuration variable. Set  it  to
108              "0" when using distmp3 to avoid local encoding processes.
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110       -k     Keep the wav files after encoding.
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112       -l     Use  the  low-diskspace algorithm. See the LOWDISK configuration
113              variable.
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115       -L     Use a local CDDB repository. See CDDBLOCALDIR variable.
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117       -n     Do not query CDDB database. Create and use a template. Edit  the
118              template to provide song names, artist(s), ...
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120       -N     Non interactive mode. Do not ask anything from the user. Just go
121              ahead.
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123       -m     Create DOS-style  playlists,  modifying  the  resulting  one  by
124              adding CRLF line endings. Some hardware players insist on having
125              those to work.
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127       -o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
128              Select output type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"),  "mp3",  "flac",
129              "spx", "mpc", "m4a" or "wav".  Specify a comma-delimited list of
130              output types to obtain all specified types.  See the  OUTPUTTYPE
131              configuration  variable. One can pass options to the encoder for
132              a specific filetype on the command line separating them  with  a
133              colon. The options must be escaped with double-quotes.
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135       -p     Pads track numbers with 0´s.
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137       -P     Use  Unix PIPES to read and encode in one step. It disables mul‐
138              tiple encodings, since the WAV audio file is never stored in the
139              disc.
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141       -r [hosts...]
142              Remote  encode  on  this  comma-delimited list of machines using
143              distmp3. See the REMOTEHOSTS configuration variable.
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145       -R     When CDDBLOCALDIR and CDDBUSELOCAL are  defined,  search  recur‐
146              sively  under  the  defined  directory  for  matches of the CDDB
147              entry.
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149       -s [fields...]
150              List, separated by comas, the fields to be  shown  in  the  CDDB
151              parsed entries.  Right now it only uses "year" and "genre".
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153       -S [speed]
154              Set the speed of the CD drive. Needs CDSPEED and CDSPEEDOPTS set
155              properly and both the program and device must support the  capa‐
156              bility.
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158       -t [number]
159              Start  the  numbering  of  the tracks at a given number. It only
160              affects the filenames and the playlist. Internal (tag) numbering
161              remains the same.
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163       -T [number]
164              Same  as  -t but changes also the internal (tag) numbering. Keep
165              in mind that the default TRACK tag for MP3 is $T/$TRACKS  so  it
166              is changed to simply $T.
167
168       -U     Set  CDDBPROTO  to  version  5,  so that we retrieve ISO-8859-15
169              encoded CDDB information, and  we  tag  and  add  comments  with
170              Latin1 encoding.
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172       -v     Show the version and exit
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174       -V     Be  a bit more verbose. On slow networks the CDDB requests might
175              give the sensation nothing is happening.
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177       -x     Eject the CD when all tracks have been  read.  See  the  EJECTCD
178              configuration variable.
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180       -X [cue2discid]
181              Use  an alternative "cue2discid" implementation. The name of the
182              binary must be exactly that. abcde comes with an  implementation
183              in  python  under  the  examples  directory. The special keyword
184              "builtin" forces the usage of the internal (default) implementa‐
185              tion in shell script.
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187       -w [comment]
188              Add a comment to the tracks ripped from the CD.
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190       -W [number]
191              Concatenate  CD´s.  It uses the number provided to define a com‐
192              ment "CD #" and to modify the numbering of the tracks,  starting
193              with "#01".
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195       -z     DEBUG mode: it will rip, using cdparanoia, the very first second
196              of each track  and  proceed  with  the  actions  requested  very
197              quickly,  also  providing  some  "hidden" information about what
198              happens on the background. CAUTION: IT WILL ERASE  ANY  EXISTING
199              RIPS WITHOUT WARNING!
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201       [tracks]
202              A list of tracks you want abcde to process. If this isn't speci‐
203              fied, abcde will process the entire CD. Accepts ranges of  track
204              numbers  - "abcde 1-5 7 9" will process tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7,
205              and 9.
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OUTPUT

208       Each track is, by default, placed in a separate file  named  after  the
209       track in a subdirectory named after the artist under the current direc‐
210       tory.  This can be modified using the OUTPUTFORMAT  and  VAOUTPUTFORMAT
211       variables in your abcde.conf. Each file is given an extension identify‐
212       ing its compression  format,  'vorbis'  for  '.ogg',  '.mp3',  '.flac',
213       '.spx', '.mpc', '.aac' or '.wav'.
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CONFIGURATION

216       abcde  sources two configuration files on startup - /etc/abcde.conf and
217       $HOME/.abcde.conf, in that order.
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219       The configuration options stated on those files can  be  overridden  by
220       providing
221              the appropriate flags at runtime.
222
223       The configuration variables have to be set as follows:
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225       VARIABLE=value
226              Except when "value" needs to be quoted or otherwise interpreted.
227              If other variables within "value" are to be expanded upon  read‐
228              ing  the  configuration file, then double quotes should be used.
229              If they are only supposed to be expanded upon use  (for  example
230              OUTPUTFORMAT) then single quotes must be used.
231
232       All sh escaping/quoting rules apply.
233
234       Here is a list of options abcde recognizes:
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236       CDDBMETHOD
237              Specifies the method we want to use to retrieve the track infor‐
238              mation. Two values are recognized: "cddb" and "musicbrainz". The
239              "cddb" value needs the CDDBURL and HELLOINFO variables described
240              below. The "musicbrainz" value uses Python to establish  a  con‐
241              versation with the server for information retrieval.
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243       CDDBURL
244              Specifies a server to use for CDDB lookups.
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246       CDDBPROTO
247              Specifies  the  protocol  version used for the CDDB retrieval of
248              results. Version 6 retrieves CDDB entries in UTF-8 format.
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250       HELLOINFO
251              Specifies the Hello information to send to the CDDB server.  The
252              CDDB protocol requires you to send a valid username and hostname
253              each time you connect. The format of this is username@hostname.
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255       CDDBLOCALDIR
256              Specifies a directory where we store a  local  CDDB  repository.
257              The  entries  must  be  standard CDDB entries, with the filename
258              being the DISCID value. Other CD playing  and  ripping  programs
259              (like  Grip) store the entries under ~/.cddb and we can make use
260              of those entries.
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262       CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE
263              Specifies if the CDDBLOCALDIR has  to  be  searched  recursively
264              trying  to  find a match for the CDDB entry. If a match is found
265              and selected, and CDDBCOPYLOCAL is selected, it will  be  copied
266              to the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR if CDDBLOCALPOLICY is "modified"
267              or "new".
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269       CDDBLOCALPOLICY
270              Defines when a CDDB  entry  should  be  stored  in  the  defined
271              CDDBLOCALDIR.  The possible policies are: "net" for a CDDB entry
272              which has been received from the net (overwriting  any  possible
273              local  CDDB  entry);  "new"  for a CDDB entry which was received
274              from the net, but will request confirmation to overwrite a local
275              CDDB  entry  found  in  the  root of the CDDBLOCALDIR directory;
276              "modified" for a CDDB entry found in the  local  repository  but
277              which  has  been modified by the user; and "always" which forces
278              the CDDB entry to be stored back in the root of the CDDBLOCALDIR
279              no  matter  where it was found, and no matter it was not edited.
280              This last option will always overwrite the one found in the root
281              of the local repository (if any). STILL NOT WORKING!!
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283       CDDBCOPYLOCAL
284              Store  local  copies of the CDDB entries under the $CDDBLOCALDIR
285              directory.
286
287       CDDBUSELOCAL
288              Actually use the stored copies of the CDDB entries. Can be over‐
289              ridden  using  the  "-L" flag (if is CDDBUSELOCAL in "n"). If an
290              entry is found, we always give the choice of retrieving  a  CDDB
291              entry from the internet.
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293       SHOWCDDBFIELDS
294              Coma-separated  list  of fields we want to parse during the CDDB
295              parsing.  Defaults to "year,genre".
296
297       OGGENCODERSYNTAX
298              Specifies the  style  of  encoder  to  use  for  the  Ogg/Vorbis
299              encoder. Valid options are ´oggenc´ (default for Ogg/Vorbis) and
300              ´vorbize´.  This affects the default location of the binary, the
301              variable  to  pick  encoder command-line options from, and where
302              the options are given.
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304       MP3ENCODERSYNTAX
305              Specifies the style of encoder to use for the MP3 encoder. Valid
306              options  are  ´lame´  (default  for  MP3),  ´gogo´,  ´bladeenc´,
307              ´l3enc´ and ´mp3enc´.  Affects the same way as  explained  above
308              for Ogg/Vorbis.
309
310       FLACENCODERSYNTAX
311              Specifies  the  style of encoder to use for the FLAC encoder. At
312              this point only ´flac´ is available for FLAC encoding.
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314       SPEEXENCODERSYNTAX
315              Specifies the style of encoder to use for Speex encoder. At this
316              point only ´speexenc´ is available for Ogg/Speex encoding.
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318       MPPENCODERSYNTAX
319              Specifies  the  style  of  encoder to use for MPP/MP+ (Musepack)
320              encoder. At this point we only  have  ´mppenc´  available,  from
321              corecodecs.org.
322
323       AACENCODERSYNTAX
324              Specifies  the style of encoder to use for M4A (AAC) encoder. At
325              this point we only support ´faac´, so ´default´ points to it.
326
327       NORMALIZERSYNTAX
328              Specifies the style of normalizer to  use.   Valid  options  are
329              ´default´  and  ´normalize' (and both run ´normalize´), since we
330              only support it, ATM.
331
332       CDROMREADERSYNTAX
333              Specifies the style of cdrom reader to use.  Valid  options  are
334              ´cdparanoia´,  ´debug´  and  ´flac´. It is used for querying the
335              CDROM and obtain a list of valid tracks  and  DATA  tracks.  The
336              special  ´flac´  case  is used to "rip" CD tracks from a single-
337              track flac file.
338
339       CUEREADERSYNTAX
340              Specifies the syntax of the program we use to read  the  CD  CUE
341              sheet.  Right  now  we  only  support ´mkcue´, but in the future
342              other readers might be used.
343
344       KEEPWAVS
345              It defaults to no, so if you want to keep those wavs ripped from
346              your  CD, set it to "y". You can use the "-k" switch in the com‐
347              mand line. The default behaviour with KEEPWAVS set  is  to  keep
348              the  temporary  directory  and  the  wav  files  even  you  have
349              requested the "clean" action.
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351       PADTRACKS
352              If set to "y", it adds 0's to the file  numbers  to  complete  a
353              two-number holder. Useful when encoding tracks 1-9.
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355       INTERACTIVE
356              Set  to  "n" if you want to perform automatic rips, without user
357              intervention.
358
359       NICE VALUES
360              Define the values for priorities (nice values) for the different
361              CPU-hungry  processes: encoding (ENCNICE), CDROM read (READNICE)
362              and distributed encoder with distmp3 (DISTMP3NICE).
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364       PATHNAMES
365              The following configuration file options specify  the  pathnames
366              of  their  respective  utilities: LAME, TOOLAME, GOGO, BLADEENC,
367              L3ENC, XINGMP3ENC,  MP3ENC,  VORBIZE,  OGGENC,  FLAC,  SPEEXENC,
368              MPPENC,   AACEND,   ID3,  ID3V2,  EYED3,  METAFLAC,  CDPARANOIA,
369              CDDA2WAV, CDDAFS, CDDISCID, CDDBTOOL,  EJECT,  MD5SUM,  DISTMP3,
370              VORBISCOMMENT, NORMALIZE, CDSPEED, MP3GAIN, VORBISGAIN, MPPGAIN,
371              MKCUE, MKTOC, CUE2DISCID (see option "-X"), DIFF and HTTPGET.
372
373       COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
374              If you wish to specify command-line options to any of  the  pro‐
375              grams  abcde uses, set the following configuration file options:
376              LAMEOPTS,  TOOLAMEOPTS,   GOGOOPTS,   BLADEENCOPTS,   L3ENCOPTS,
377              XINGMP3ENCOPTS,  MP3ENCOPTS,  VORBIZEOPTS, OGGENCOPTS, FLACOPTS,
378              SPEEXENCOPTS,  MPPENCOPTS,   AACENCOPTS,   ID3OPTS,   ID3V2OPTS,
379              CDPARANOIAOPTS,  CDDA2WAVOPTS,  CDDAFSOPTS,  CDDBTOOLOPTS, EJEC‐
380              TOPTS, DISTMP3OPTS, NORMALIZEOPTS, CDSPEEDOPTS, MKCUEOPTS,  VOR‐
381              BISCOMMMENTOPTS, METAFLACOPTS, DIFFOPTS and HTTPGETOPTS.
382
383       CDSPEEDVALUE
384              Set  the  value  of  the CDROM speed. The default is to read the
385              disc as fast as the reading program and the system permits.  The
386              steps are defined as 150kB/s (1x).
387
388       ACTIONS
389              The default actions to be performed when reading a disc.
390
391       CDROM  If  set, it points to the CD-Rom device which has to be used for
392              audio extraction. Abcde tries to guess the right device, but  it
393              may fail. The special ´flac´ option is defined to extract tracks
394              from a single-track flac file.
395
396       CDPARANOIACDROMBUS
397              Defined as "d" when using cdparanoia with an IDE bus and as  "g"
398              when using cdparanoia with the ide-scsi emulation layer.
399
400       OUTPUTDIR
401              Specifies the directory to place completed tracks/playlists in.
402
403       WAVOUTPUTDIR
404              Specifies  the temporary directory to store .wav files in. Abcde
405              may use  up  to  700MB  of  temporary  space  for  each  session
406              (although  it  is  rare to use over 100MB for a machine that can
407              encode music as fast as it can read it).
408
409       OUTPUTTYPE
410              Specifies the encoding format to output, as well as the  default
411              extension  and encoder. Defaults to "vorbis". Valid settings are
412              "vorbis" (or "ogg")  (Ogg/Vorbis),  "mp3"  (MPEG-1  Audio  Layer
413              III),  "flac"  (Free  Lossless  Audio Codec), "spx" (Ogg/Speex),
414              "mpc" (MPP/MP+ (Musepack)), "m4a" (for M4A (AAC)) or "wav"  (Mi‐
415              crosoft Waveform). Values like "vorbis,mp3" encode the tracks in
416              both Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 formats.
417              For each value in OUTPUTTYPE, abcde expands a different  process
418              for  encoding,  tagging  and  moving,  so you can use the format
419              placeholder, OUTPUT, to create different subdirectories to  hold
420              the  different  types.  The  variable  OUTPUT  will be 'vorbis',
421              'mp3', 'flac', 'spx', 'mpc', 'm4a' and/or  'wav',  depending  on
422              the OUTPUTTYPE you define. For example
423              OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACK‐
424              NUM}._${TRACKFILE}'
425
426       OUTPUTFORMAT
427              Specifies  the  format  for  completed  Ogg/Vorbis,  MP3,  FLAC,
428              Ogg/Speex,  MPP/MP+  (Musepack)  or M4A filenames. Variables are
429              included using standard  shell  syntax.  Allowed  variables  are
430              GENRE,  ALBUMFILE,  ARTISTFILE,  TRACKFILE,  TRACKNUM, and YEAR.
431              Default   is    ´${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACK‐
432              FILE}´.   Make  sure  to use single quotes around this variable.
433              TRACKNUM  is  automatically  zero-padded,  when  the  number  of
434              encoded tracks is higher than 9. When lower, you can force with
435
436       VAOUTPUTFORMAT
437              Just  like  OUTPUTFORMAT  but  for  Various  Artists  discs. The
438              default      is      'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTIST‐
439              FILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
440
441       ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
442              Just  like  OUTPUTFORMAT  but  for single-track rips (see option
443              "-1"). The default is '${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
444
445       VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT
446              Just like ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT but for  Various  Artists  discs.
447              The default is 'Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
448
449       MAXPROCS
450              Defines  how  many  encoders to run at once. This makes for huge
451              speedups on SMP systems. You should run one encoder per  CPU  at
452              once  for  maximum  efficiency,  although more doesn't hurt very
453              much. Set it "0" when using mp3dist to  avoid  getting  encoding
454              processes in the local host.
455
456       LOWDISK
457              If set to y, conserves disk space by encoding tracks immediately
458              after reading them. This is  substantially  slower  than  normal
459              operation but requires several hundred MB less space to complete
460              the encoding of an entire CD. Use only if your system is low  on
461              space and cannot encode as quickly as it can read.
462
463       BATCHNORM
464              If  set  to y, enables batch mode normalization, which preserves
465              relative volume differences between tracks  of  an  album.  Also
466              enables nogap encoding when using the ´lame´ encoder.
467
468       NOGAP  Activate  the  lame's --nogap option, that allows files found in
469              CDs with no silence between songs (such as live concerts) to  be
470              encoded  without  noticeable  gaps. WARNING: lame's --nogap dis‐
471              ables the Xing mp3 tag.  This tag is required for mp3 players to
472              correctly  display  track lengths when playing variable-bit-rate
473              mp3 files.
474
475       PLAYLISTFORMAT
476              Specifies the format for  completed  playlist  filenames.  Works
477              like   the   OUTPUTFORMAT  configuration  variable.  Default  is
478              ´${ARTISTFILE}_-_${ALBUMFILE}.m3u´.  Make  sure  to  use  single
479              quotes around this variable.
480
481       PLAYLISTDATAPREFIX
482              Specifies  a  prefix for filenames within a playlist. Useful for
483              http playlists, etc.
484
485       DOSPLAYLIST
486              If set, the resulting playlist will  have  CR-LF  line  endings,
487              needed by some hardware-based players.
488
489       COMMENT
490              Specifies  a comment to embed in the ID3 or Ogg comment field of
491              each finished track. Can be up to 28 characters  long.  Supports
492              the  same  syntax  as  OUTPUTFORMAT.  Does not currently support
493              ID3v2.
494
495       REMOTEHOSTS
496              Specifies a comma-delimited list of systems to  use  for  remote
497              encoding using distmp3. Equivalent to -r.
498
499       mungefilename
500              mungefilename()  is an abcde shell function that can be overrid‐
501              den via abcde.conf. It takes CDDB data as  $1  and  outputs  the
502              resulting  filename  on  stdout.  It  defaults to eating control
503              characters, apostrophes and question marks,  translating  spaces
504              and forward slashes to underscores, and translating colons to an
505              underscore and a hyphen.
506              If you modify this function, it is probably a good idea to  keep
507              the  forward  slash munging (UNIX cannot store a file with a '/'
508              char in it) as well as the control character munging (NULs can't
509              be  in a filename either, and newlines and such in filenames are
510              typically not desirable).
511
512       mungegenre
513              mungegenre () is a shell function  used  to  modify  the  $GENRE
514              variable. As a default action, it takes $GENRE as $1 and outputs
515              the resulting value to stdout converting all  UPPERCASE  charac‐
516              ters to lowercase.
517
518       pre_read
519              pre_read  ()  is  a  shell function which is executed before the
520              CDROM is read for the first time, during abcde execution. It can
521              be  used  to close the CDROM tray, to set its speed (via "setcd"
522              or via "eject", if available) and other preparation actions. The
523              default function is empty.
524
525       post_read
526              post_read  ()  is  a  shell function which is executed after the
527              CDROM is read (and, if applies, before the CDROM is ejected). It
528              can  be used to read a TOC from the CDROM, or to try to read the
529              DATA areas from the CD (if any exist).  The default function  is
530              empty.
531
532       EJECTCD
533              If  set to "y", abcde will call eject(1) to eject the cdrom from
534              the drive after all tracks have been read. It has no effect when
535              CDROM is set to a flac file.
536
537       EXTRAVERBOSE
538              If  set  to  "y", some operations which are usually now shown to
539              the end user are visible, such as CDDB queries. Useful for  ini‐
540              tial debug and if your network/CDDB server is slow.
541

EXAMPLES

543       Possible ways one can call abcde
544
545       abcde  Will work in most systems
546
547       abcde -d /dev/cdrom2
548              If the CDROM you are reading from is not the standard /dev/cdrom
549              (in GNU/Linux systems)
550
551       abcde -o vorbis,flac
552              Will create both Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC files.
553
554       abcde -o vorbis:"-b 192"
555              Will pass "-b 192" to the Ogg/Vorbis encoder, without having  to
556              modify the config file
557
558       abcde -W 1
559              For  double+  CD  settings: will create the 1st CD starting with
560              the track number 101, and will add  a  comment  "CD  1"  to  the
561              tracks, the second starting with 201 and so on.
562
563       abcde -d singletrack.flac
564              Will extract the files contained in singletrack using the embed‐
565              ded cuesheet.
566

BACKEND TOOLS

568       abcde requires the following backend tools to work:
569
570       *      An Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex,  MPP/MP+(Musepack)  or  M4A
571              encoder  (oggenc,  vorbize, lame, gogo, bladeenc, l3enc, mp3enc,
572              flac, speexenc, mppenc, faac)
573
574       *      An audio CD reading utility (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, dagrab)
575
576       *      cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program.
577
578       *      An HTTP retrieval program: wget, fetch (FreeBSD) or curl (Mac OS
579              X,  among  others). Alternatively, musicbrainz-get-tracks (which
580              depends on Python) can be  used  to  retrieve  CDDB  information
581              about the CD.
582
583       *      (for MP3s) id3 or id3v2, id3 v1 and v2 tagging programs.
584
585       *      (optional)  distmp3,  a client/server for distributed mp3 encod‐
586              ing.
587
588       *      (optional) normalize, a WAV file volume normalizer.
589
590       *      (optional)  a  replaygain  file  volume  modifier   (vorbisgain,
591              metaflac, mp3gain, replaygain),
592
593       *      (optional) mkcue, a CD cuesheet extractor.
594

SEE ALSO

596       cdparanoia(1),  cdda2wav(1),  dagrab(1),  normalize(1), oggenc(1), vor‐
597       bize(1), flac(1), toolame(1), speexenc(1), mppenc(1), faac(1),  id3(1),
598       id3v2(1),  wget(1), fetch(1), cd-discid(1), distmp3(1), distmp3host(1),
599       curl(1), mkcue(1), vorbisgain(1), mp3gain(1)
600

AUTHORS

602       Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>, Jesus Climent  <jesus.climent@hispal‐
603       inux.es> and contributions from many others.
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