[Abcde-users] Abcde and aiff

[Gabriel Rosenkoetter]

On 2025-04-19 22:47, Dry Martini Holding Company 😎 wrote:
> I have been using this great script for a while now, and encoding all of my music to aiff format.
> 
> I listen to the files using a RPi running rune audio music server software. However, the encoding (or lack thereof) causes problems for the server software, which requires UTF-8.
> 
> I just discovered abcde 2.11.0, and I am still encountering this problem.
> 
> I have followed all the fixes for this problem. Is there anything else I need to do for this to work properly for aiff encoded files?

I fear that I don't have an immediate answer to your question, but I'm 
amply familiar with how low-traffic this email list tends to be, and I 
didn't want you to think it was a total vacuum.

I'm personally unfamiliar with "a RPi" and with "rune audio music 
server". That doesn't mean they're bad, it just means that I'm ignorant 
of them. I think that you means that you've got a Raspberry Pi running 
https://www.runeaudio.com/ — is that correct?

I'm not sure what you mean by the assertion that that configuration 
"requires UTF-8". Do you mean that it is incapable of displaying track 
information encoded as simple ASCII or do you mean that it fails to play 
tracks whose metadata are encoded in a format other than UTF-8?

In either case, the files produced by abcde that I play routinely 
(mostly through software from Apple) contain metadata that's definitely 
encoded in UTF-8, so I'm not sure how you got to that place with this 
problem.

Could you show us what command line call you're using to encode 
tracks/albums?

Could you point us to error messages that you're seeing?

Could you point us to references to "all the fixes" that you've already 
tried?

I do apologize that I lack any more specific answer, but I just don't 
understand enough about what's going wrong for you yet.

As a footnote: you'll probably forever be in a minority of a minority 
while you choose to store your music files as AIFF. I'm not telling you 
to go re-encode all of your audio collection or anything, I'm just 
asserting that it's a slightly esoteric choice, so you are likely to hit 
encoding & decoding edge cases that relatively few others have.

(I'm kinda on your side on the encoding choice: I was raised by 
classical musicians. I have Opinions about how watery mp3 encoding makes 
orchestral music sound. But that's the format in which my music library 
is digitally stored, because of the lowest-common-denominator: I've 
still got the source physical media for stuff that really matters.)

-- 
Gabriel Rosenkoetter (he/him)
gr at eclipsed.net
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