[Abcde-users] New release (2.13.1) and other news

[josh]

Hi all,

A very big thanks to everyone that responded to the user poll. I will
post a summary of the results but the main takeaway is that everyone
is using modern linux. I can stop feeling guilty about not testing for
Irix, SunOS, *BSD and OSX. "There can be only one!"

I've just release a new tagged version and a .deb package. This new
version introduces my long desired "Archive mode." For now it just
writes the raw CD table of contents (TOC) data to the output
directory. The CD TOC forms the basis for disc id generation. The CD
TOC is already read from the disk at the beginning of the encoding
process so there are no extra reads - it's costless to save this info.
There is an example of this below*
My future plans for archive mode are:
- create an archive action
- define archive levels
- record cd-text to output directory
- record directory listing of enhanced cds
- an option to save these details into whole disc flacs as comments
("one disc, one file")
- possibly create a disk image of the data portion of enhanced CDs


While final testing for today's release, I noticed that gnudb lookups
were failing. I haven't looked at that side of things much since
that's always worked fine. Troubleshooting today led me to gnudb
server side changes that will cause issues for abcde users:
To maintain free and fair access to the Gnudb service, it is essential
that each user or installation is uniquely identified in requests.
This helps Gnudb manage traffic effectively and prevent abuse or
overuse by anonymous or poorly configured clients.
When multiple users appear as a single generic client (e.g., all using
user at host.com or anonymous at domain.com), they collectively share the
same request quota. Our quota system is designed to ensure reliable
access for legitimate personal use. Proper configuration guarantees
your program stays within acceptable limits and contributes to the
long-term sustainability of the Gnudb project.

At present I can't even connect to port 80 of gnudb.gnudb.org:
nc -v gnudb.gnudb.org 80
nc: connect to gnudb.gnudb.org (78.47.118.0) port 80 (tcp) failed:
Connection refused
nc: connect to gnudb.gnudb.org (2a01:4f8:c17:86f8::1) port 80 (tcp)
failed: Network is unreachable
That seems a bit excessive.

There is a gnudb info page here: https://gnudb.org/why-request-fail.php
I need to get on and get my IP address unblocked and then update abcde
so it can be configured with the necessary information. I suggest in
the meantime that you make sure to enable musicbrainz as a datasource
and if you get the message "This disc is unknown to MusicBrainz.
Submit via http [y/N]? " that you select y and help make musicbrainz
an even better database.

I have created a github issue if you'd like to track the progress:
https://github.com/poddmo/abcde/issues/51

As always, any and all feedback is welcome,
Josh




josh at phenom:~/Music/The Atlantics/Flight Of The Surf Guitar$ ls
'01.Flight Of The Surf Guitar.flac'  '06.Reef Ride.flac'
11.Freakout.flac         '16.The Crusher.flac'
'02.Surfs Up.flac'                   '07.Surfin The Net.flac'
'12.Saturday Night.flac'  '17.Night Star.flac'
'03.Big Swell.flac'                  '08.Dawn Patrol.flac'
'13.Atlantic Echo.flac'    cover.jpg
'04.In The Shadows.flac'             '09.Bondi James.flac'
14.Bombora.flac           cue-f20bba11.txt
'05.Thunder Down Under.flac'          10.Whitewash.flac
'15.Rumble And Run.flac'   toc-f20bba11.txt
josh at phenom:~/Music/The Atlantics/Flight Of The Surf Guitar$ cat
toc-f20bba11.txt
cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

Using cdda library version: 10.2
Using paranoia library version: 10.2
Checking /dev/sr1 for cdrom...
        Testing /dev/sr1 for SCSI/MMC interface
                SG_IO device: /dev/sr1

CDROM model sensed sensed: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-216 1.06

Checking for SCSI emulation...
        Drive is ATAPI (using SG_IO host adaptor emulation)

Checking for MMC style command set...
        Drive is MMC style
        DMA scatter/gather table entries: 1
        table entry size: 131072 bytes
        maximum theoretical transfer: 55 sectors
        Setting default read size to 27 sectors (63504 bytes).

Verifying CDDA command set...
        Expected command set reads OK.

Attempting to set cdrom to full speed...
        drive returned OK.

Table of contents (audio tracks only):
track        length               begin        copy pre ch
===========================================================
  1.    11887 [02:38.37]        0 [00:00.00]    no   no  2
  2.    14493 [03:13.18]    11887 [02:38.37]    no   no  2
  3.    12017 [02:40.17]    26380 [05:51.55]    no   no  2
  4.    13670 [03:02.20]    38397 [08:31.72]    no   no  2
  5.    12968 [02:52.68]    52067 [11:34.17]    no   no  2
  6.    13945 [03:05.70]    65035 [14:27.10]    no   no  2
  7.    10685 [02:22.35]    78980 [17:33.05]    no   no  2
  8.    12910 [02:52.10]    89665 [19:55.40]    no   no  2
  9.    16065 [03:34.15]   102575 [22:47.50]    no   no  2
 10.    10392 [02:18.42]   118640 [26:21.65]    no   no  2
 11.    12358 [02:44.58]   129032 [28:40.32]    no   no  2
 12.    13117 [02:54.67]   141390 [31:25.15]    no   no  2
 13.    16013 [03:33.38]   154507 [34:20.07]    no   no  2
 14.    14105 [03:08.05]   170520 [37:53.45]    no   no  2
 15.    12547 [02:47.22]   184625 [41:01.50]    no   no  2
 16.    13843 [03:04.43]   197172 [43:48.72]    no   no  2
 17.    14177 [03:09.02]   211015 [46:53.40]    no   no  2
TOTAL  225192 [50:02.42]    (audio only)

* example is not representative of my taste in music :)