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{{about|the software|the given name|Abcde|the acronym relating to first aid|ABC (medical)|the song|Alphabet song|the alphabet|alphabet}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = abcde
| logo = 
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| author = Robert Woodcock (original)
| developer = Steve McIntyre (current), Jesus Climent
| released = 
| latest release version = 2.9.3
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2019|2|5|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|title=FrontPage|url=https://abcde.einval.com/wiki/|access-date=31 August 2018}}</ref>
| operating system = [[Unix-like]]
| platform = 
| language = English
| genre = [[CD ripper]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]
| website = {{url|https://abcde.einval.com/}}
}}
'''ABCDE''' ('''A''' '''B'''etter '''CD''' '''E'''ncoder) is a [[CD ripper]] for [[Linux]] and [[UNIX-like]] operating systems, operated entirely from the [[command line interface|command line]]. The program can be run 'as is' or can run with command line switches or from a config file. It will query either [[FreeDB]] or [[MusicBrainz]] for the CD currently in the drive, display a list of possible matches to choose from, then optionally rip, encode, tag the files. The program can also optionally normalize, add replaygain information and create a playlist. As of version 2.6, ABCDE can rip to [[Vorbis]], [[FLAC]], [[MP3]], [[Wav]], and others.

== Features ==
* Do a CDDB or Musicbrainz query over the Internet to look up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry, or read CD-TEXT from your CD as a fallback for track information
* Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
* Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
* Compress to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A and/or Opus format(s), all in one CD read
* Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
* Give an intelligible filename
* Replaygain - Calculates values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
* Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
* Repeat until finished 

ABCDE version 2.9.3 is the most recent download and was released on February 5th 2019.  with an extensive list of changes <ref>{{cite web|title=[Abcde-users] abcde 2.7 release...|url=http://lists.einval.com/pipermail/abcde-users/2015-June/000162.html|accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref> including automated and semi-automated album art downloading.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git git.einval.com] - latest upstream code
*[http://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abcde-users abcde users mailing list] - abcde help and discussions

{{Media player (application software)|free}}

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[[Category:Linux CD ripping software]]
[[Category:Console CD ripping software]]


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