[Abcde-users] Trying to use acbde to rip and preserve my CD collection

[Jose M Calhariz]

Hi,

I have a collection of several hundreds CDs, mostly Pop Rock,
Electronic Dance Music with some classical music or odd balls.
I have been ripping my collection for a long time, changing the
standard as the time pass and the HDD were bigger.

Started with 128Kbps mp3 files, add ogg files at 96Kpbs, later added
256Kpbs mp3 and ogg files.  Now I use flac and VBR mp3 files.

I used an old setup, like grip plus cdparanoia to know when my CDs
have problems and the rip could have errors.  I no longer want to use
grip and last year I tried abcde from Debian.  It worked with some
problems.  Now I think is time to evolve again my standard with the
best from abcde and try to fix the last problems for my use case.

I want to listen my music at home or in the infotainment of my car.
At home I use Debian or Kodi on Windows to listen my music, so I am
free to choose the best file format.  I can play at my car flac or mp3
files.

I think the best standard for me:

  * One archive of all CDs done with "abcde -1" generating one flac
    file per CD.
  * One copy of tracks in flac format and other in VBR mp3.
  * Cover art embeded on the music file and in a extra file or
    directory.  My infotainment system prefer embeded art, some other
    players prefer an extra file or directory with the cover.
  * Capability to play live or mixed CDs wihout gaps between tracks.

I think I can do all of this with abcde version 2.12.0-2 on Debian
trixie v13.


Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz

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