abcde: What is an ~/.abcde.conf file to rip to multiple formats?

The 'canonical' abcde conf file section of the website at andrews-corner has been removed, what is a conf file that I can use now to rip my audio cds with abcde to multiple different formats at the same time under Ubuntu?

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The web author of andrews-corner has moved to other areas of interest now but preserved here is an ~/.abcde.conf that will rip to 11 different audio formats at the same time:

# -----------------$HOME/.abcde.conf----------------- # # # A sample configuration file to convert music cds to # MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, AAC, WavPack, Opus, # Monkey's Audio (ape), True Audio, AC3 and mp2, 11 formats # at the same time! Using abcde version 2.7.2 release version. # # Acknowledgements to # -------------------------------------------------- # # Encode tracks immediately after reading. Saves disk space, gives # better reading of 'scratchy' disks and better troubleshooting of # encoding process but slows the operation of abcde quite a bit: LOWDISK=y # Specify the method to use to retrieve the track information, # the alternative is to specify 'musicbrainz': CDDBMETHOD=cddb # With the demise of freedb (thanks for the years of service!) # we move to an alternative: CDDBURL="" # Make a local cache of cddb entries and then volunteer to use # these entries when and if they match the cd: CDDBCOPYLOCAL="y" CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb" CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="y" CDDBUSELOCAL="y" OGGENCODERSYNTAX=oggenc # Specify encoder for Ogg Vorbis MP3ENCODERSYNTAX=lame # Specify encoder for MP3 FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac # Specify encoder for FLAC MPCENCODERSYNTAX=mpcenc # Specify encoder for Musepack AACENCODERSYNTAX=fdkaac # Specify encoder for AAC OPUSENCODERSYNTAX=opusenc # Specify encoder for Opus WVENCODERSYNTAX=wavpack # Specify encoder for Wavpack APENCODERSYNTAX=mac # Specify encoder for Monkey's Audio TTAENCODERSYNTAX=tta # Specify encoder for True Audio MP2ENCODERSYNTAX=twolame # Specify encoder for MP2 MKAENCODERSYNTAX=ffmpeg # Specify encoder for MKA (AC3 via FFmpeg) OGGENC=oggenc # Path to Ogg Vorbis encoder LAME=lame # Path to MP3 encoder FLAC=flac # Path to FLAC encoder MPCENC=mpcenc # Path to Musepack encoder FDKAAC=fdkaac # Path to the AAC encoder OPUSENC=opusenc # Path to Opus encoder WVENC=wavpack # Path to WavPack encoder APENC=mac # Path to Monkey's Audio encoder TTA=tta # Path to True Audio encoder TWOLAME=twolame # Path to MP2 encoder FFMPEG=ffmpeg # Path to FFmpeg (AC3 via FFmpeg) OGGENCOPTS='-q 6' # Options for Ogg Vorbis LAMEOPTS='-V 2' # Options for MP3 FLACOPTS='-s -e -V -8' # Options for FLAC MPCENCOPTS='--extreme' # Options for Musepack FDKAACENCOPTS='-p 2 -m 5 -a 1' # Options for fdkaac OPUSENCOPTS="--vbr --bitrate 128" # Options for Opus WVENCOPTS="-hx3" # Options for WavPack APENCOPTS="-c4000" # Options for Monkey's Audio TTAENCOPTS="" # Options for True Audio TWOLAMENCOPTS="--bitrate 320" # Options for MP2 FFMPEGENCOPTS="-c:a ac3 -b:a 448k" # Options for MKA (AC3 via FFmpeg) OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3,flac,mpc,m4a,opus,wv,ape,tta,mp2,mka" # Encode to 11 formats! # The cd ripping program to use. There are a few choices here: cdda2wav, # dagrab, cddafs (Mac OS X only) and flac. New to abcde 2.7 is 'libcdio'. CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia # Give the location of the ripping program and pass any extra options, # if using libcdio set 'CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia'. CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40" # Give the location of the CD identification program: CDDISCID=cd-discid # Give the base location here for the encoded music files. OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/Music" # The default actions that abcde will take. ACTIONS=cddb,playlist,read,encode,tag,move,clean # Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist', # multi-track encode and also for a multi-track, 'various-artist' encode: OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}' VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}' # Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist', # single-track encode and also for a single-track 'various-artist' encode. # (Create a single-track encode with 'abcde -1' from the commandline.) ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}' VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}' # Create playlists for single and various-artist encodes. I would suggest # commenting these out for single-track encoding. PLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u' VAPLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u' # This function takes out dots preceding the album name, and removes a grab # bag of illegal characters. It allows spaces, if you do not wish spaces add # in -e 's/ /_/g' after the first sed command. mungefilename () { echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^\.*//' | tr -d ":><|*/\"'?[:cntrl:]" } MAXPROCS=2 # Run a few encoders simultaneously PADTRACKS=y # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2 EXTRAVERBOSE=2 # Useful for debugging COMMENT='abcde version 2.7.2' # Place a comment... EJECTCD=y # Please eject cd when finished :-) 

Keep in mind that this ~/.abcde.conf can also be used for a single audio codec rip and encode by using something like the following:

abcde -o mp3 

This will utilise the 'mp3' section of the conf file only... How cool is the command line :)

Take a look here also..

Andrews Corner - Archived

If you want start from a full list of configuration options and defaults, copy /etc/abcde.conf to ~/.abcde.conf and edit it.

Putting only OUTPUTTYPE="ogg,mp3,flac,mpc,m4a,opus,wv,ape,tta,mp2,mka" into that file will provide multiple file type outputs without changing any other configuration options.