abcde CD ripping settings for flac.. no flacs :-(
 

Hiya, I'm new and this is my first question:
I want to use abcde to rip my CDs to .flac format and I am using Ubuntu.
I installed flac and abcde and used this guide http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html#flac for the settings.

I should have all the optional packages needed (cdparanoia, flac) and have placed .abcde.conf in my /home/user directory. Whatever it is doing when I execute the abcde command, it's not leaving me my music.flac because when I use $find -name '*.flac' I cannot find any new files :-(

I'm sure the answer is staring me in the face but I selected a folder for the OUTPUT and nothing other than a folder 'abcde.a609ac0d' with data files in my home directory

What trick am I missing here? Hope someone can help me, this is frustrating. I can post the .abcde.conf file I am using and I'm sure I am keeping it in the right location because the flac disclaimer comes up..

OK, reading your article, if you used the default configuration, your output file should be in /home/$USER/Music.
Do me a favor before we drill deeper into this and check to make sure

1: You have a Music directory in your home directory
2: It doesn't have .flac files in it.

The find command only searches the current working directory tree unless you supply it a different path so "$find -name '*.flac'" isn't a global search.
it's "find / -name <filename>"

If you are calling abcde from the command line, do you get any output from the application or does it fail silently?

Oh, and before I forget, welcome to Linuxquestions (as a poster).

Hi, thanks for getting back to me.
find -name '*.flac' actually does work because when I used it I found all my previous .flac files :-)
I cp /etc/abcde.conf /home/edwooger/.abcde.conf and used andrew's corner for the flacs.

These are the options that I have uncommented. Did I use a comma or speech marks.
CDDBMETHOD=cddb
NOCDDBQUERY=n
SHOWCDDBFIELDS=tracknum,artist,title,year,genre,
FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac
CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia
KEEPWAVS=n
PADTRACKS=y
LAME=lame
OGGENC=oggenc
FLAC=flac
ID3=id3
CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia
CDDISCID=cd-discid
OGGENCOPTS="-q 6"
FLACOPTS="-s -e -V -8"
CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40"
ACTIONS=cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean
OUTPUTDIR=`$HOME/Downloads`
OUTPUTTYPE="flac"
OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/$ALBUMFILE}'
VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'
MACPROCS=2
LOWDISK=y

mungefilename ()
{
echo "$@" | sed s,:,\ -,g | tr \ / __ | tr -d \'"\?\[:cntrl:\]
}

EJECTCD=y


Thanks for your help :-)

OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/Downloads"
I assume that should work.
I see you have backticks, `$HOME/Downloads`, probably that caused the problem.

Also you can try
EXTRAVERBOSE=2
to check what's happening

Genius. Thanks for your help.
Gonna try and label this topic as [SOLVED] :-)

glad to help you
if you really want to say thanks just click on YES

There are multiple ways of running the conf file. You could simply use only the flac information in a single ~/.abcde.conf file and then running the command:

will run only the flac output. Or you could use the so-called combo conf file which has carefully selected settings for 8 different audio formats and call abcde for flac as:

or any of the 7 other formats after the -o option and abcde will produce only the requested audio codec type. Lots of choices!

You may see that I have changed all of the conf files over the last day or so as abcde 2.7 should be out shortly with a big list of improvements :).

Hiya, Andrew :-)

Thanks for the reply. I found your response and now started using the 10 codex config.
I have all the important one working, the ones I know about: flac, mp3, wav and ogg.
I never heard or used the other 4 and they don't seem to work, anyway. I #tagged them out.

I get this error, otherwise:

which: no mpcenc in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/cxoffice/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl: usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
[ERROR] abcde: mpcenc is not in your path.
[INFO] Define the full path to the executable if it exists on your system.

I don't know what it means because I checked my packages and I did have one of them installed and still came up with this message. I'm sure it's something obvious that I am missing and it's not something I will miss not having but for future reference it be nice to know how to fix.

Thanks again for the reply!

I suspect that you are missing mpcenc which is the encoder for Musepack. Nice sound if you get around to installing it btw...