[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

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I am running the 2.11,0 version of Abcde. That was probably from an older config file that has been edited to fit my needs. 

What puzzles me is that if I rip my music to aiff format with a Mac OS program, the rune server works as advertised, displaying the newly assed music. 

I have even edited the files created by abcde with Picard, by adding the additional musicbrainz metadata, and still not work. 

I will set up a fresh install of rune on another raspberry pi, to see how it behaves, before moving on to different file formats. 


Thanks for your help. 

Robert

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> On Apr 30, 2025, at 21:54, josh via Abcde-users <abcde-users at lists.einval.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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].