[Flac] FLAC CD Archive

[Chris Hirsch]

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> I've been working on this sort of approach using abcde as a front-end,
> and have run into several issues.  What I finally decided on doing is
> ripping the CD to a single flac file with embedded cue sheet using a
> variety of tools (more details later).  The single flac file is then
> enough to pretty much reconstruct the audio CD should it ever get lost
> or destroyed.  Note that abcde can support ripping ogg files directly
> from a single flac file with an embedded cue sheet.  I believe several
> of the popular audio players have added (or are adding) support for
> single flac files with embedded cue data, so you can seek to the next
> song, see all song titles, etc.
>

I've been looking for frontends to finally get my collection organized
and archived. I've been looking at abcde for my primary front-end and
have been looking to rip and encode to flac, ogg and mp3. I'd love get
access to your changes to abcde. I never even thought about encoding
the entire cd as a flac. That eliminates the cuefile problem and makes
it easy to reconstruct back to an audio cd. I'd be willing to help
hack on abcde since I think it could use some updates anyway and it's
been a while since I contributed anything to it.


Is anybody familiar with a system that will automatically scan an
existing collection for duplicates? Ideally the system I plan on
building is that I have my share of existing mp3's and oggs that I've
encoded over time. I'd like to encode to flac and then have the system
scan for existing mp3s or even oggs that may be of much less quality
and then if those are found re-encode from the newly created flac
file. If somebody can point me to a framework that works like this
already that'll save me some coding. If not...stay tuned ;-)

Chris
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