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	FLACOPTS='-8'		FLACOPTS='-8'
	PADTRACKS=y		PADTRACKS=y

			# Eject CD after reading is complete
			EJECTCD=y
	</syntaxhighlight>		</syntaxhighlight>

	==== Ripping CD's ====		==== Ripping CD's ====
	After the config file is created <code>abcde</code> can be executed and will automatically start ripping the currently inserted Disk. abcde uses "CD Paranoia" to extract the Music and displaying the progress bar. You can see here: https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#progbar what the different symbols mean.		After the config file is created <code>abcde</code> can be executed and will automatically start ripping the currently inserted Disk. abcde uses "CD Paranoia" to extract the Music and displaying the progress bar. You can see here: https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#progbar what the different symbols mean.

			The <code>-N</code> can be used to make the process non-interactive, abcde will always use the first option for Metadata information.

	==== Moving "cover.jpg" back into the extraction folder ====		==== Moving "cover.jpg" back into the extraction folder ====

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'''abcde''' ('''a''' '''b'''etter '''CD''' '''e'''ncoder) is a Linux terminal program for ripping CD's. It can automagically search for Music Metadata and encode the Music in various different formats.



=== Install (Debian) ===

abcde is available in the official Repository. The <code>--no-install-recommends</code> should be used, because x11 will otherwise be installed.



A package for the target codec should also be installed



* <code>vorbis-tools</code> for OGG. This is the default.

* <code>flac</code> for FLAC files.

* <code>lame</code> for MP3 files.

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">

apt install abcde flac --no-install-recommends

</syntaxhighlight>



=== Usage ===



==== Config ====

The config file for abcde is located under <code>~/.abcde.conf</code>.



Example Config for FLAC. Extracted music will be used under <code>~/Music</code> grouped by Album name.<syntaxhighlight>

OUTPUTTYPE=flac

OUTPUTFORMAT='./Music/${ALBUMFILE}/${ARTISTFILE} - ${TRACKFILE}'

VAOUTPUTFORMAT='./Music/${ALBUMFILE}/${ARTISTFILE} - ${TRACKFILE}'

FLACOPTS='-8'

PADTRACKS=y

</syntaxhighlight>



==== Ripping CD's ====

After the config file is created <code>abcde</code> can be executed and will automatically start ripping the currently inserted Disk. abcde uses "CD Paranoia" to extract the Music and displaying the progress bar. You can see here: https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#progbar what the different symbols mean.



==== Moving "cover.jpg" back into the extraction folder ====

If abcde found a Cover to the CD online, it will apply it to all extracted Tracks and will then create an "albumart_backup" folder inside the target folder. For Jellyfin and other Applications, it is useful to have the cover inside the target folder directly. This can be fixed with a script.<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">

#!/bin/bash



# Set the base directory where your music albums are stored

MUSIC_DIR="./Music"



# Find all albumart_backup directories

find "$MUSIC_DIR" -type d -name "albumart_backup" | while read -r backup_dir; do

    # Get the parent album directory

    album_dir=$(dirname "$backup_dir")

    

    # Check if cover.jpg exists in the backup directory

    if [ -f "$backup_dir/cover.jpg" ]; then

        echo "Moving cover from $backup_dir to $album_dir"

        

        # Move the cover.jpg to the album directory

        mv "$backup_dir/cover.jpg" "$album_dir/"

        

        # Check if the move was successful

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

            echo "Successfully moved cover.jpg to $album_dir"

            

            # Remove the now-empty albumart_backup directory

            rm -rf "$backup_dir"

            echo "Removed $backup_dir"

        else

            echo "Failed to move cover.jpg from $backup_dir to $album_dir"

        fi

    else

        echo "No cover.jpg found in $backup_dir"

        # Remove the directory anyway if it's empty or doesn't have cover.jpg

        rm -rf "$backup_dir"

        echo "Removed $backup_dir"

    fi

    

    echo "-----------------------------------"

done



echo "All album art processing completed."

</syntaxhighlight>{{DEFAULTSORT:abcde}}

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