The 'canonical' abcde conf file section of the website at andrews-corner has been removed; what is a conf file that I can use now to rip my audio cds with abcde to multiple different formats at the same time under Ubuntu?
Disclaimer: This is my web site and I am a former developer of abcde...
Disclaimer: This my web site and I am a former developer of abcde...
The web author of andrews-corner has moved to other areas of interest now but preserved here is an ~/.abcde.conf that will rip to 11 different audio formats at the same time:
# -----------------$HOME/.abcde.conf----------------- #
#
# A sample configuration file to convert music cds to
# MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, AAC, WavPack, Opus,
# Monkey's Audio (ape), True Audio, AC3 and mp2, 11 formats
# at the same time! Using abcde version 2.7.2 release version.
#
# Acknowledgements to http://andrews-corner.org
# -------------------------------------------------- #
Encode tracks immediately after reading. Saves disk space, gives
better reading of 'scratchy' disks and better troubleshooting of
encoding process but slows the operation of abcde quite a bit:
LOWDISK=y
Specify the method to use to retrieve the track information,
the alternative is to specify 'musicbrainz':
CDDBMETHOD=cddb
With the demise of freedb (thanks for the years of service!)
we move to an alternative:
CDDBURL="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"
Make a local cache of cddb entries and then volunteer to use
these entries when and if they match the cd:
CDDBCOPYLOCAL="y"
CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="y"
CDDBUSELOCAL="y"
OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc # Specify encoder for Ogg Vorbis
MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame # Specify encoder for MP3
FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac # Specify encoder for FLAC
MPCENCODERSYNTAX=mpcenc # Specify encoder for Musepack
AACENCODERSYNTAX=fdkaac # Specify encoder for AAC
OPUSENCODERSYNTAX=opusenc # Specify encoder for Opus
WVENCODERSYNTAX=wavpack # Specify encoder for Wavpack
APENCODERSYNTAX=mac # Specify encoder for Monkey's Audio
TTAENCODERSYNTAX=tta # Specify encoder for True Audio
MP2ENCODERSYNTAX=twolame # Specify encoder for MP2
MKAENCODERSYNTAX=ffmpeg # Specify encoder for MKA (AC3 via FFmpeg)
OGGENC=oggenc # Path to Ogg Vorbis encoder
LAME=lame # Path to MP3 encoder
FLAC=flac # Path to FLAC encoder
MPCENC=mpcenc # Path to Musepack encoder
FDKAAC=fdkaac # Path to the AAC encoder
OPUSENC=opusenc # Path to Opus encoder
WVENC=wavpack # Path to WavPack encoder
APENC=mac # Path to Monkey's Audio encoder
TTA=tta # Path to True Audio encoder
TWOLAME=twolame # Path to MP2 encoder
FFMPEG=ffmpeg # Path to FFmpeg (AC3 via FFmpeg)
OGGENCOPTS='-q 6' # Options for Ogg Vorbis
LAMEOPTS='-V 2' # Options for MP3
FLACOPTS='-s -e -V -8' # Options for FLAC
MPCENCOPTS='--extreme' # Options for Musepack
FDKAACENCOPTS='-p 2 -m 5 -a 1' # Options for fdkaac
OPUSENCOPTS="--vbr --bitrate 128" # Options for Opus
WVENCOPTS="-hx3" # Options for WavPack
APENCOPTS="-c4000" # Options for Monkey's Audio
TTAENCOPTS="" # Options for True Audio
TWOLAMENCOPTS="--bitrate 320" # Options for MP2
FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a ac3 -b:a 448k" # Options for MKA (AC3 via FFmpeg)
OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3,flac,mpc,m4a,opus,wv,ape,tta,mp2,mka" # Encode to 11 formats!
The cd ripping program to use. There are a few choices here: cdda2wav,
dagrab, cddafs (Mac OS X only) and flac. New to abcde 2.7 is 'libcdio'.
CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
Give the location of the ripping program and pass any extra options,
if using libcdio set 'CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia'.
CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia
CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40"
Give the location of the CD identification program:
CDDISCID=cd-discid
Give the base location here for the encoded music files.
OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/Music"
The default actions that abcde will take.
ACTIONS=cddb,playlist,read,encode,tag,move,clean
Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist',
multi-track encode and also for a multi-track, 'various-artist' encode:
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist',
single-track encode and also for a single-track 'various-artist' encode.
(Create a single-track encode with 'abcde -1' from the commandline.)
ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
Create playlists for single and various-artist encodes. I would suggest
commenting these out for single-track encoding.
PLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'
VAPLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'
This function takes out dots preceding the album name, and removes a grab
bag of illegal characters. It allows spaces, if you do not wish spaces add
in -e 's/ /_/g' after the first sed command.
mungefilename ()
{
echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^.//' | tr -d ":><|/"'?[:cntrl:]"
}
MAXPROCS=2 # Run a few encoders simultaneously
PADTRACKS=y # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2
EXTRAVERBOSE=2 # Useful for debugging
COMMENT='abcde version 2.7.2' # Place a comment...
EJECTCD=y # Please eject cd when finished :-)
Keep in mind that this ~/.abcde.conf can also be used for a single audio codec rip and encode by using something like the following:
abcde -o mp3
This will utilise the 'mp3' section of the conf file only... How cool is the command line :)
If you want start from a full list of configuration options and defaults, copy /etc/abcde.conf to ~/.abcde.conf and edit it.
Putting only OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3,flac,mpc,m4a,opus,wv,ape,tta,mp2,mka" into that file will provide multiple file type outputs without changing any other configuration options.
