[Abcde-users] Abcde and aiff

[josh]

On 21/4/25 10:37, Gabriel Rosenkoetter 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?
>
...
>
> 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 would also like to see your config, possibly /etc/abcde.conf or more 
likely .abcde.conf in your home directory. Generally for solving utf8 
issues, it would be good to see the output of the command: locale

A while back when I was having issues with utf8 characters being handled 
inconsistently when using abcde, eg the cddbchoice list would show utf8 
characters correctly but the cddb editor did not. I solved this by 
explicitly defining my locale in my abcde config 
(/home/username/.abcde.conf) with the following line at the top of my 
config:

export LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8

I've just committed an update to my github repo that adds a locale 
example to the default config:

https://github.com/poddmo/abcde/commit/6e7795eb5fe951e9a6b2c32083cecb0c82e423c2

I also started using tmux with the -u switch.

> 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.
>
+1
> (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.)
>
flac all day for lossless and modern encoding and future-proof decoding


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