need help with the syntax on an abcde paramater

newbiesforever · 08-22-2020, 04:00 PM

I wanted my abcde to rip in MP3, so I found this in the man page:

Code:

 -o [filetype][:filetypeoptions]
              Select  output  type. Can be "vorbis" (or "ogg"), "mp3", "flac",
              "spx", "mpc",  "m4a",  "wav",  "wv",  "ape",  "opus",  "mka"  or
              "aiff".   Specify  a comma-delimited list of output types to ob‐
              tain all specified  types.   See  the  OUTPUTTYPE  configuration
              variable.  One  can  pass  options to the encoder for a specific
              filetype on the command line separating them with a  colon.  The
              options must be escaped with double-quotes.

Fine, so it looked clear that the command would be:

Code:

abcde -o mp3

...but that only produced this error message:

Code:

[ERROR] abcde: eyeD3 is not in your path.
[INFO] Define the full path to the executable if it exists on your system.
[INFO] Hint: sudo apt-get install

Hmm...I guess I have misjudged the syntax. I also, noting the last line, tried

Code:

abcde -o "mp3"

...but that produced the same message. Some help here?

berndbausch · 08-22-2020, 05:21 PM

This is not a syntax error. To rip to MP3, the tool seems to require another tool named eyeD3, which is either not installed or can't be found.

Perhaps following the suggestion sudo apt-get install eyeD3 helps.

Or search the internet. One result: https://askubuntu.com/questions/7557...sty-and-xenial.

ondoho · 08-23-2020, 02:42 AM

abcde works best with a carefully augmented config file.
If you didn't do that, I guess it defaults to using eyeD3 somewhere.

andrew.46 · 09-03-2020, 11:28 PM

By default to encode to mp3 abcde uses lame for the encoding and eyeD3 for adding metatags...