From jason at shakabuku.org  Sat Mar  8 17:03:11 2025
From: jason at shakabuku.org (Bodnar, Jason)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 11:03:11 -0600
Subject: [Abcde-users] Specify artist and album on the command line?
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I'm ripping some CDs for a friend. They belonged to his dad. They're
recordings of a radio show so they're not in Musicbrainz or CDDB. They all
more or less have the same artist and album format so I'd like to be able
to specify those on the command line instead of having to edit the CDDB
template. Is this possible?

-- 
Jason Bodnar
jason at shakabuku.org
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From awkerr at nrao.edu  Sat Mar  8 19:54:18 2025
From: awkerr at nrao.edu (Alan W. Kerr)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 12:54:18 -0700
Subject: [Abcde-users] Specify artist and album on the command line?
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"Is this possible?"

short answer:
no

longer answer:
I've looked at the source code and tried a couple of tests...  I see no 
way to do this nor an easy way to add this.  The "template" **IS** the 
way to do this.

a more useful answer:
abcde is not designed for your "edge case" use.  What you want to do is 
much closer to ripping an audiobook, podcast series, etc.  There are 
other programs that are designed to do what you want (ripping a 
series/collection) but I have no specific suggestions for you. 
Otherwise, "repeated use of the template method" is your only choice 
when using abcde.

Alan W. Kerr          awkerr at nrao.edu          Whee!(tm)


On 3/8/25 10:03, Bodnar, Jason wrote:
> I'm ripping some CDs for a friend. They belonged to his dad. They're 
> recordings of a radio show so they're not in Musicbrainz or CDDB. They 
> all more or less have the same artist and album format so I'd like to be 
> able to specify those on the command line instead of having?to edit the 
> CDDB template. Is this possible?
> 
> -- 
> Jason Bodnar
> jason at shakabuku.org <mailto:jason at shakabuku.org>
> 
> 
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