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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
Andrew,
Thanks I figured it out after watching the reading and encoding process carefully.
It just wouldn't be Tuesday if I didn't have yet another question. I am using the following formats in my .abcde.conf file.
Code:
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
PLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'
VAPLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various/${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'
The OUTPUTFORMAT and VAOUTPUTFORMAT seem to be honored by abcde, but it seems like the PLAYLISTFORMAT and VAPLAYLISTFORMAT are sticking to the defaults in the bash script. Since, I'm new to understanding abcde and it function, could there be a bug in the script? For example after ripping the CD "Comfort Eagle" by the artist CAKE, I get the following in my music folder.
Code:
bob@Basement:~$ ls -R /home/xbmc/Music/mp3/CAKE*
/home/xbmc/Music/mp3/CAKE:
Comfort Eagle
/home/xbmc/Music/mp3/CAKE/Comfort Eagle:
01.Opera Singer.mp3 07.Comfort Eagle.mp3
02.Meanwhile, Rick James....mp3 08.Long Line Of Cars.mp3
03.Shadow Stabbing.mp3 09.Love You Madly.mp3
04.Short Skirt_Long Jacket.mp3 10.Pretty Pink Ribbon.mp3
05.Commissioning A Symphony In C.mp3 11.World Of Two.mp3
06.Arco Arena (Instrumental).mp3
/home/xbmc/Music/mp3/CAKE-Comfort Eagle:
Comfort Eagle.m3u
Do the constructed playlists really matter? Could I move them into the proper folders myself?
Thanks,
Bob
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
A quick correction to post 23 in this thread, for those wondering how to get vorbisgain to work with abcde:
VorbisGain puts a replay gain tag in the ogg file, so you want to use the replaygain action instead of the normalize action in you abcde.conf.
The following are the minimum settings in abcde.conf which will enable album gain using vorbisgain.
Code:
OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc
OGGENC=oggenc
VORBISGAIN=vorbisgain
VORBISGAINOPTS='-a'
ACTIONS=cddb,playlist,read,encode,replaygain,tag,move,clean
BATCHNORM=y
OUTPUTTYPE=ogg
note, the actions array must contain replaygain after encode.
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
Many thanks for this great guide on abcde!
It helped me to save many hours to search for the right settings. With this guide I learned how to encode in flac and mp3 and to save automatically into different folders. This is very close to perfect!
There is just one thing that I would need to make it perfect.
Is there a way to automatically download cover art?
What tool do you use to add the cover art to the ripped cds?
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
I cannot get abcde to save to a specified directory
I have tried
OUTPUTDIR = ~/Music/
or
OUTPUTDIR = "$HOME/Music/"
and variations with and without trailing/, subdirectory targets and still get something along the lines of :
/home/drknot/.abcde.conf: line 232: /home/drknot/Music/: is a directory
Frustrated!!
Once I can get this to work I'll try having separate directories for ogg v MP3
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
try without a space either side of the = sign
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
I now feel officially daft!
Thank you - the leading space after the OUTPUTDIR= was the problem.
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
This long thread will not be open for much longer so I will necropost a little to let the abcde faithful know that there have been 2 nice changes in abcde just recently:
- Musepack SV8 is now supported, support for SV7 has been discarded.
- Encoding with neroAacEnc is now possible without patching, Tagging with AtomicParsley for the moment.
Details here:
http://code.google.com/p/abcde/source/list
Still exciting times now and in the future for abcde :)
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
And now encoding with opusenc is in place so abcde can rip cds to the new Opus Interactive Audio Codec.
Opus Interactive Audio Codec
http://www.opus-codec.org/
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Re: [HOWTO] abcde
I read earlier in the thread about selecting cd drive to read from. i am trying to read from and external usb drive.
I can see the disc but cannot get abcde to read it instead of my main drive. using -d. I assume i have the wrong path to the drive but being new cannot figure out how to find the path. i bookmarked the drive and got cdda://sr1/ but cannot figure out how to format the path to get abcde to read it i just get the error cannot find cd drive.
any suggestions?