abcde config file

[citybird]

Hi all,
I would like to rip to flac and mp3 at the same time with abcde but direct the output to separate directories.

is this possible?

ie:
mp3 files goto /home/user/music/MP3/artist/title/song.mp3
flac files goto /home/user/music/FLAC/artist/title/song.flac

currently both files goto the same dir.

[yabbadabbadont]

I never found a way for it to do that when I was using abcde. What I ended up doing was just ripping to flac and then using a script called flac2mp3 to create a mirrored directory tree with mp3 files. There were two versions of the script that I found. A bash script and a perl script. I don't remember which one I ended up using. For that matter, it shouldn't be too difficult to write a bash script to simply recreate your directory tree and move the existing mp3 files to their new home.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

I have always wondered how to do this myself and I will admit to having spent too much time over the last 2 days trying to figure it out! Good news is I have solved it.

I give the example ~/.abcde.conf file below that encodes to both ogg and mp3 and places them in different directories. I have not used flac in thia example as I know nothing of flac encoding / options etc Just substitute your flac settings for the ogg settings, or even run all 3!!

OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc                 # Specify encoder for ogg
MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame                   # Specify encoder for mp3


CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia            # CD reader program to use

OGGENC=/usr/bin/oggenc                  # Path to ogg encoder
LAME=/usr/bin/lame                      # Path to lame encoder
ID3=/usr/bin/id3                        # Path to id3 editor
ID3V2=/usr/bin/id3v2                    # Path to id3v2 editor
CDPARANOIA=/usr/bin/cdparanoia          # Path to cdparanoia
CDDISCID=/usr/bin/cd-discid             # Path to cd-discid
VORBISCOMMENT=/usr/bin/vorbiscomment    # Path to vorbiscomment

OGGENCOPTS='-q 6'                       # Options for ogg
LAMEOPTS='--preset standard'            # Options for mp3  

OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3"                    # mp3 +/- ogg +/- flac ???
OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/music/"                # Base directory for the music

# This divides the music into 2 folders: 
# mp3 goes to $HOME/music/mp3/ 
# ogg goes to $HOME/music/ogg/
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}--${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}--${TRACKFILE}'

PADTRACKS=y                             # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2
EXTRAVERBOSE=y                          # Useful for debugging
EJECTCD=y                               # Please eject cd when finished :-)

I have tested this comprehensively and it works flawlessly. What are the chances you could post the flac settings that you use for abcde? I have a small walkthrough on abcde:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstron...u_cli.html#mp3

that I was thinking of making a single page and the only missing element is flac about which I know next to nothing

Hope this helps!

Andrew

[yabbadabbadont]

Cool. I didn't know that the OUTPUT variable was set like that. Granted, I didn't spend much time on it as I had the flac2mp3 script that did what I needed. The only special flac setting I used in my .abcde.conf file was

FLACOPTS="-f --best"

I think that the "-f" is probably not needed.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

Originally Posted by yabbadabbadont Cool. I didn't know that the OUTPUT variable was set like that.

Don't worry, I didn't know until today either

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi again,

So here for the record is my ~/.abcde.conf file that encodes to ogg, flac and mp3. Each file type will be placed in a seperate directory, tagged or commented, and I have added in the function to give spaces in filenames:

##################################################################
# Andrew's ~/.abcde.conf file to encode to ogg, flac and mp3 at  #
# the same time. The 3 filetypes will then be tagged or          #
# commented and dispersed to seperate directories.               #
# http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/ubuntu.html              #
##################################################################

# What are the names of the encoding programs?
OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc                 # Specify encoder for ogg
MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame                   # Specify encoder for mp3
FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac                  # Specify encoder for flac

# What program to rip the tracks from CD?
CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia            # CD reader program to use

# Where are the encoding programs?
OGGENC=/usr/bin/oggenc                  # Path to ogg encoder
LAME=/usr/bin/lame                      # Path to lame encoder
FLAC=/usr/bin/flac                      # Path to flac encoder
                 
# Where are the tagging / commenting programs?
ID3=/usr/bin/id3                        # Path to id3 editor
ID3V2=/usr/bin/id3v2                    # Path to id3v2 editor
VORBISCOMMENT=/usr/bin/vorbiscomment    # Path to vorbiscomment
METAFLAC=/usr/bin/metaflac              # Path to metaflac

# Where are the other programs?
CDPARANOIA=/usr/bin/cdparanoia          # Path to cdparanoia
CDDISCID=/usr/bin/cd-discid             # Path to cd-discid

# What options should be used for encoding?
OGGENCOPTS='-q 6'                       # Options for ogg
LAMEOPTS='--preset standard'            # Options for mp3 
FLACOPTS='--best'                       # Options for flac 
OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3,flac"               # mp3 +/- ogg +/- flac

# Where do the encoded tracks go to?
OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/music/"                # Base directory for the music

# This divides the music into 3 folders: 
#  mp3 goes to $HOME/music/mp3/ 
#  ogg goes to $HOME/music/ogg/
# flac goes to $HOME/music/flac/
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}--${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}--${TRACKFILE}'

# Put spaces in the filenames.
mungefilename ()
{
  echo "$@" | sed s,:,-,g | tr / _ | tr -d \'\"\?\[:cntrl:\]
}

# What extra options?
PADTRACKS=y                             # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2
EXTRAVERBOSE=y                          # Useful for debugging
EJECTCD=y                               # Please eject cd when finished :-)

Those flac files sound great but I need a bigger disk before encoding that way all the time

Andrew

[logos34]

Can you override the .conf settings for just, say, a single track (or several)?

abcde [tracks] -o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]

e.g.:

abcde 7 -o mp3:"-b 128" -->rip+encode track 7 only to mp3 only@cbr 128

??

The man pages and other docs I've seen only show how to do the ENTIRE cd.

abcde -o vorbis,flac
abcde -o vorbis:"-b 192"

etc.

EDIT: nevermind--it's 'abcde [options] [tracks]'. (staring at me from the top of the man page.). tracks AFTER options...

[citybird]

I rip to flac for Archiving/Home listening and to MP3 for the portable player. What would you need ogg for? I know some players support it but mine doesn't. so why mp3 and ogg?

[citybird]

SWEET!! thanks for the awesome tip!!

As for flac settings I have not found any.
It is lossless so I guess that there are no settings.

[citybird]

ok next question:

Is it possible to get the year that the album was released to appear next to the album folder?

ie:
/ home / user / music / mp3 / Artist / Album [year] / 01.track.mp3
/ home / user / music / flac / Artist / Album [year] / 01.track.flac


this would be great for me when I need to find something from a particular era