[Flac] FLAC CD Archive

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Chris Hirsch wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> 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.

Pretty much all of my abcde stuff that's ready for anyone else to look
at was submitted to the Debian bug tracking system:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377240

...and is now in the latest version of abcde (along with several other
updates).  You can grab it straight from subversion (and I think *MAYBE*
in the unstable debian abcde package, but I'm not sure):

  https://svn.hispalinux.es/svn/abcde/trunk/abcde

I was planning on integrating TOC file generation via cdrdao to abcde,
followed by cuefile "munging" as appropriate/required (preferably in
shell-script rather than C or something, so it could be made part of
abcde), but "real life" has intervened.

Really, the only thing missing from abcde's current flac ripping
functionality is the ability to rip the entire disc (specify the start
as [00:00:00-0] instead of 1, to get any pre-gap on discs that don't
start at zero), and cuefile generation that takes subcode data into
account (via cdrdao).

The first is easily accounted for in the ripping code, by hard-coding
the start-track (but a more general solution would be to specify either
zero as the start track, or a --whole-disc type switch to abcde), while
I was dealing with the second issue by modifying toc2cue (*NOT* a
particularly desirable solution, IMHO).  Regardless, my just barely
working setup to rip entire CDs to flac breaks with the latest abcde
from subversion, and I haven't yet had time to get it running again. :(

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Charles Steinkuehler
cstein at newtek.com
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