[Abcde-users] abcde bug fixes and enhancements available

[josh]

I've added some new features to my development tree:
* Set FLAC ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists" metadata tag for multi-artist CDs
* New munge helper function: munge_simplify_punctuation, to help standardise
  unicode and ascii punctuation like apostrophe's and ellipsis.

The previous set of fixes and features listed below were tested
against more than 300 CDs and the new changes listed above have been
tested with over 100. I've run out of CD's to rip and am very happy
with the results of my dev effort so there are no more changes likely
but I welcome any feedback.

I've tagged this version as 2.10.1-RC1 and my repo is at:

https://github.com/poddmo/abcde

Regards,
poddmo




On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 at 14:02, josh <poddmo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've ripped hundreds of CD's with abcde and before I embark on the next few hundred, I wanted to fix some bugs and have a go at some enhancements. I've been doing this over the last few months and I've posted my changes to github:
>
> https://github.com/poddmo/abcde
>
> The bug fixes come from patches attached to bugzilla or posted to the mailing list. I tried for a while to keep track of what came from where but my github commit log is the best reference for changes: https://github.com/poddmo/abcde/commits/main/
>
> I've now tagged this version as 2.10-RC1 to recognise all the changes. The main new features are:
>
> cddb choices show the year of release
> cddb choice has a help and re-list option. The help also has details about how to diff two releases
> Improved handling of CD sets.
>
> The -W option is expanded to optionally also take the total number of discs in the set. That number is used for a DISCTOTAL FLAC tag
> If DISCNUMBER is greater than 1, default to append playlist rather than erase
>
> Define a local file and directory for album art. If the album artwork download fails or the user chooses to overide the downloaded art, abcde will look for ALBUMARTDIR/ALBUMARTFILE before asking the user to manually enter the filename.
> Created munge helper functions:
>
> munge_fs-safe: remove characters that are not Windows and Linux file-system safe or sane
> munge_Startcase: capitalise the first letter of every word
> munge_unicodetoascii: transliterate Unicode to ASCII
> munge_collapsewhitespace: replace multiple spaces with a single space
>
> Add new mungefilename config example to use munge helper functions
> Create new config option STARTCASEFLACTAGS to use munge_Startcase for FLAC tags artist name, album title and track titles
>
> This helps to prevent artist duplication due to inconsistent capitalisation
>
> I'll now test this version with a few tens of CDs. I'm only converting to FLAC so I would appreciate any feedback if you use other formats. Please report issues to the github page with the command line, your config file and details of the audio CD that you're ripping.