<div dir="ltr">I'd be interested to see your automation scripts, I'll try to share some work I've done to automate the process. <div><br></div><div>Wilbur</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:25 PM Dan Hargens <<a href="mailto:dhargens@gmail.com">dhargens@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been using abcde for quite a while, and enjoy using it. Thanks for taking the time to make it in the first place. I've used it to rip 1192 CDs and I'm still going.<br><br>2 concerns: I've been trying to understand something about how abcde uses the cddb files.<br><br>1.<br>A Long Time Ago the filenames used to be long - 28-characters, the same as the "DISCID=" line inside the file. I think maybe it's the MusicBrainz format.<br>More recently, they're now the short form (8 chars), the same as the first field returned from cd-discid.<br><div><br></div>Why is this? Was it related to when freedb dropped?<br><br>2.<br>As part of my process of automating rips, I wrote a script that uses abcde to first only retrieve the disc info (cddb), which it then cleans up and changes smart-quotes to stupid ones, fixes weird album titles and other things, then does the full rip using abcde again (this saves me from having to re-rip it because I don't like the defaults or something). Sometimes the filename is NOT the first field returned from cd-discid, but something else (but still 8 chars long).<br><br>Why is this? How do I know what the 'new' filename is that I need to use? To clean up the file, I assume the cd-discid is right and use that. That doesn't work when the name changes. I suppose I could use the most-recent file in the directory, but that assumes I'm not editing other files for a re-rip (maybe I needed to manually change the title, or some other such reason), but this feels sloppy somehow. Any suggestions on how to handle this?<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Dan</div>
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