Abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to ogg or mp3 format, and tags them, all in one go.
Please note that I no longer maintain abcde. These pages are no longer updated. Please download recent versions of abcde here or read about recent updates here.
Abcde supports:
- CDDA using cdparanoia or cdda2wav
- Ogg Vorbis using oggenc or vorbize
- MP3 using lame, gogo, bladeenc, mp3enc, xingmp3enc, or l3enc
- CDDB using cd-discid, wget, and FreeDB
- Ogg commenting using vorbiscomment
- Tagging using id3 and id3v2
- m3u playlists
- Distributed remote MP3 encoding using distmp3
- Simultaneous reading and encoding
- SMP systems
- Resuming interrupted sessions
- Noninteractivity
- Error logging of background processes
- Various Artists discs of all types
- Custom filename output and munging
- Passing arbitrary options to subprocesses
- Ejecting CD's after reading
- Encoder nicing
- Grabbing arbitrary ranges of tracks
Debian packages:
Debian potato and woody users can just type "apt-get install abcde" as root to install abcde.
Debian 2.x users should add the following line to their /etc/apt/sources.list file first:
deb http://lly.org/~rcw/ abcde/slink/
These packages were compiled in a hamm chroot environment and run on hamm, slink, and potato. id3lib and id3v2 packages will be added later.
Source:
Older versions:
Abcde was formerly known as cdgrab (until I found out that name was taken). You can find versions prior to 0.8.4 here and here.
Development versions:
http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/development/
This is the abcde 1.9.x development tree, which became 2.0 on August 15th, 2001. Coming soon - the abcde 2.1 development tree. The development changelog is available at:
Manual pages:
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