[Abcde-users] Released 2.9

[Steve McIntyre]

Hey folks,

I've just released version 2.9, with a lot of changes since 2.8.1 just
over a year ago. Massive thanks to our army of users, bug reporters
and testers for help! Ready for download now:

  https://abcde.einval.com/download/

or via git:

  https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git;a=summary

Quick summary of changes:

 * Add some documentation for the aged CD ripper dagrab. Thanks to 
   Teika Kazura for the notification and suggested documentation. This 
   closes Issue 50: https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50
 * Work by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> to address the issue
   where abcde fails with accented characters from CD-TEXT. The issue and
   partial fix applied here documented in Issue 53:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53
   and also in the abcde mailing list:
   https://lists.einval.com/pipermail/abcde-users/2017-January/000232.html
 * Allow for embedding of  album art downloaded by the getalbumart fuction. 
   Currently this is available for flac (using metaflac), mp3 (using eyed3),
    m4a (using AtomicParsley) and WavPack aka wv (using wvtag).
    This can be invoked in 3 ways:
     
     1. Use the commandline '-B' option (this will also call getalbumart)
     2. Use the commandline '-a embedalbumart' option to add to list of actions
     3. Use 'embedalbumart' in the 'ACTIONS' list in ~/.abcde.conf
     
   Still needs more development but it is perfectly usable at the moment!
 * Use md5 rather than md5sum under macOS. Thanks to JCount for the bug
   report and also the fix. This solves Issue 59:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59
 * Support added for encoding with Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF). 
   Thanks to Massimo Villa for the feature request. FFmpeg is required
   for the encoding, the container and suffix are 'aiff'.
 * Allow selection of either cddb or musicbrainz from the command line:
 
  -Q   Select CDDBMETHOD from the command line. Choice is cddb or musicbrainz.
  
   Command line letters are fast running out but the 'Q' option quite neatly
   stands for 'Query'!
 * Allow for embedding with do_embedalbumart() for single track encodes when
   OUTPUTFORMAT and ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT are different. Thanks to Ashley Gittins
   for the bug report. This closes Issue 63:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63
 * Experimental support for embedding albumart with ogg files. The slightly
   tortuous technique drawn from 2 sources:

   1. https://github.com/biapy/howto.biapy.com/blob/master/various/mussync-tools
   2. https://github.com/acabal/scripts/blob/master/ogg-cover-art
   
   Testing is strongly encouraged, perhaps the simplest way to test is with:
   
       abcde -o ogg -B
    
    Or the appropriate settings in an ~/.abcde.conf file.
 * Massive rework of CD lookup code so support multiple sources
   better. Thanks to Gabriel Rosenkoetter for his initial idea in this
   area, and to Tomasz Goliński on irc for initial inspiration on how
   this should work better.
   There are now 3 different options for CD lookup: cddb, musicbrainz and
   cdtext. They can all be listed in a comma-separated list for
   CDDBMETHOD and the code will now call all of them in the sequence
   listed. All the results will be combined into one list at the end for
   the user to select, just like would have previously worked for one
   source only. Closes Issue 42:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42
 * Fix Musicbrainz ID calculation in makeids()
   Apply fix suggested by petecollins24 at gmail.com; add PREGAP to
   LEADOUT to correct Musicbrainz ID calculation. Hopefully closes
   Issue 54: https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54
 * Fix abcde.mkcue() when handling the --wholedisk option. Thanks to
   Nino Burini for the patch. Closes Issue 47 and maybe also 45:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45
 * Add more comprehensive examples for filename munging in the example
   config file. Closes Issue 49:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49
 * Add a more better fix for the year lookup problem in abcde-musicbrainz-tool
   Thanks to Tom Samstag for the patch. Closes Issue 57:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57
 * Redirect stderr on "which" calls to clear up error noise on some
   systems. Closes Issue 56:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56
 * Add Irix support, based on a patch by abcde at canavan.de. Closes Issue 29:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29
 * Rework abcde-musicbrainz-tool to work with WebService::MusicBrainz 1.x
   Thanks to Nicolas Guillaumin for the patch. Closes Issue 60:
   https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60
   Also added a specific dependency on version 1.0.4 or newer, so
   abcde-musicbrainz-tool will abort if the version found is too old.
   Since tweaked to deal with multi-artist albums and tracks more
   completely.
 * Add resume support in do_getalbumart()
 * Fix getopts setup for "P". Thanks to Alan W. Kerr for reporting this.
 * Major set of code cleanups to fix up lots of warnings found with
   shellcheck, and a few other style issues:
   + Lots of quoting fixes
   + Use $( instead of `
   + Stop using -o and -a syntax with if [ - use || or && instead
   + Wrap and shorten some very long lines
 * Wrap some output messages so they fit on a standard width console
 * Factor out repeated code and make page() more useful
 * Add version check before resuming from an old ripping run


-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.einval.com/pipermail/abcde-users/attachments/20180308/04c1db58/attachment.sig>