[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

[josh]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 05:24, Dry Martini Holding Company via
Abcde-users <abcde-users at lists.einval.com> wrote:
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> Today I have been editing the files from abcde with Picard. I can add
> the additional musicbrainz metadata to the files, but this does not help
> solve the problem. In fact, it creates an additional problem. The
> coverart jpeg file in the directory along with the aiff files, but the
> cover art does not show up on the server.
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> Robert

Hi Robert,

I've run out of answers for you but I did want to point out that
perhaps this is a good time to update your technology stack. The AIFF
format hasn't been updated since 1991 [1] and the ID3 standards for
metadata weren't published until 1996 [2]. In your last email there is
an abcde comment tag of ' comment         : abcde version 2.8.2' that
was probably released in 2017. I guess that whatever compatibility you
are getting from rune is more accidental rather than intentional and
well tested. I strongly recommend you switch to flac to get the
metadata support and compatibility that you're wanting and upgrade to
the latest version of abcde, either 2.9.3 [3] or my latest 2.11.1 [4].

Kind regards,
Josh

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3
[3] https://abcde.einval.com/wiki/
[4] https://github.com/poddmo/abcde