[Abcde-users] Abcde and aiff

[Dry Martini Holding Company 😎]

Mr. Rosen letter,

Greetings and thank you for your reply. Yes, I am running the rune audio server on a raspberry pi 3. 

By fixes, I mean I have read all that I could find regarding encoding and general setup of the abcde script. 

As for utf-8, that is what is required by the rune software, per the developers. As a contrast, I have in the past, used XLD for Mac to encode my music to aiff format, and when transferred to the Pi server, the music files are cataloged and displayed as they should be. 

When they are encoded with Abcde and transferred to the server, the files are only displayed in alpha order. However, they are not cataloged under “album view”, or or album list view. I can access them as is, but this is a bit cumbersome as is. 

I really like Linux and I like the Abcde script for its capabilities, and want to solve this problem. The fact that XLD produces aiff encoded music that displays properly, tells me that the problem is with some particular setup of the Abcde script. 

Sincerely,

Robert Jenkins

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> On Apr 20, 2025, at 20:37, Gabriel Rosenkoetter <gr at eclipsed.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 
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