abcde user poll - WHAT OS DO YOU USE?

[poddmo]

TL;DR: Please comment below with your operating system name and version

abcde has a very long history. It's becoming necessary to review the user base so we can define a set of minimum versions for our ongoing development of abcde. This effort is to make even more detailed backups of our audio CDs (metadata), improve workflow (automation) and stay operational as dependencies change (eg library updates and deprecated utilities).

As someone that is passionate about music and just moderately competent at bash programming, I'm also interested to know how much music you rip and a bit about your process: I probably rip at least 10 CDs to flac a week and I do it all interactively so I can get the metadata (artist, titles, year, genre and cover) perfect first go, cross-referencing with Discogs and submitting CD TOCs to Musicbrainz when necessary. I have a stack of CDs that I use for testing when developing abcde: 2-track audio cd for quick test, audio cd with cd-text single artist, cd-text various artists, enhanced cd. I've had chats with people that are automation-only and others using a variety of output formats. All your responses will help me gauge the interest in abcde and motivate ongoing work.

Are there non-linux abcde users out there? Please let us know about your system.

For linux users, this one-liner will collect all the necessary info:

cat /etc/os-release ; bash --version ; abcde -v ; cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq ; lsscsi | grep cd

Here are my results. On my main ripping and abcde dev system:

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="26.04"
VERSION="26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)"
VERSION_CODENAME=resolute
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=resolute
LOGO=ubuntu-logo
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.3.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
[4:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  PLDS     DVD-RW DH16AESH  3L32  /dev/sr0
[5:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-216  1.06  /dev/sr1

dpkg -l | grep musicbrainz
ii  libmusicbrainz-discid-perl:amd64           0.06-2                            amd64        Perl interface to the MusicBrainz libdiscid library
ii  libwebservice-musicbrainz-perl             1.0.10-1                            all          XML based Web service API to the MusicBrainz database

My old ripping system is still in use and waiting for update but the OS is still in support:

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.2.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name	: AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G
[5:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  PLDS     DVD-RW DH16AESH  3L32  /dev/sr0
[7:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH82N    KU02  /dev/sr1

dpkg -l | grep musicbrainz
ii  libmusicbrainz-discid-perl                     0.06-1build2                          amd64        Perl interface to the MusicBrainz libdiscid library
ii  libwebservice-musicbrainz-perl            1.0.4-2                                    all          XML based Web service API to the MusicBrainz database

[cweiske]

I rip a CD every couple of weeks. Usually I simply let abcde do its job automatically and then manually edit the tags with kid3-qt when something is off.

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.7
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
GNU bash, Version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Lizenz GPLv3+: GNU GPL Version 3 oder jünger <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

Dies ist freie Software. Sie darf verändert und verteilt werden.
Es wird keine Garantie gewährt, soweit das Gesetz es zulässt.
This is abcde v2.11.1.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name	: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor
[4:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  ATAPI    iHAS524   A      BL2J  /dev/sr0 

[vdubgeek]

I discovered discogs this past spring, so I've been on a tear, ripping a handful of cd's weekly. I upload to Musicbrainz as needed, and I mostly let abcde do it's thing automatically. Here are my details:

NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=44
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f44/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=44
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=44
SUPPORT_END=2027-05-19
VARIANT="KDE Plasma Desktop Edition"
VARIANT_ID=kde
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.2-DEV.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra X7 368H

[jcbodnar]

NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="22.3 (Zena)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 22.3"
VERSION_ID="22.3"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=zena
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.1.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1360P
[2:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVDRAM SP80NB80 RC00 /dev/sr0

[calhariz]

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.5
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.2.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
[5:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.00 /dev/sr0

[l0f4r0]

Hi,

I don't have a regular ripping rate because it depends on my purchases but let's say an average of 1 CD every 6 weeks.

I generate flac files with abcde (for archiving purpose), then I adjust some tags with easytag, and finally I generate the opus files from flac ones with opusenc (for playing purpose).

Below are the requested details:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.7
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

Ceci est un logiciel libre ; vous être libre de le modifier et de le redistribuer.
AUCUNE GARANTIE n'est fournie, dans les limites permises par la loi.
This is abcde v2.9.3.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
[0:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  PIONEER  BD-RW  BDR-XD07U 1.01  /dev/sr0

[DGedye]

I have several large boxes of cds stored in my garage since I ripped them to .ogg in 2016 using ABCDE 2.7.2 . I am now working through them all again ripping to flac. I get through about 3 a night depending on my health issues. Some of them are from New Zealand and pretty obscure so those are very hands on.

`NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="22.3 (Zena)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 22.3"
VERSION_ID="22.3"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=zena
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.2.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Command 'lsscsi' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install lsscsi
`

[DGedye]

after installing lsscsi:

NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="22.3 (Zena)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 22.3"
VERSION_ID="22.3"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=zena
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.2.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd hp HLDS DVDRW GUD1N LD02 /dev/sr0

[stymaster]

I rip CDs as I buy them. FLAC for home (a MoodeAudio player on Raspberry Pi) and phone, and MP3 simultaneously for an SD card in the car, but a couple of years ago I had to re-rip a fair few because I had a disk failure: I used an external CD drive and did 2 CDs simultaneously. This is on a old Thinkpad T430.

I usually run the Metadata through MusicBrainz Picard to verify it, but I use abcde's album art downloader.

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="26.04"
VERSION="26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)"
VERSION_CODENAME=resolute
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=resolute
LOGO=ubuntu-logo
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.12.0.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd PLDS DVD-RW DS8A8SH KU54 /dev/sr0

[gbcox]

NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=44
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f44/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=44
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=44
SUPPORT_END=2027-05-19
VARIANT="KDE Plasma Desktop Edition"
VARIANT_ID=kde
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.9.3.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name : AMD Ryzen 7 8700G w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
[6:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 /dev/sr0

[jasom]

I rip several CDs per year (more if I pass by a store or library selling used CDs that I haven't raided visited yet). I rip the wholdisc to a single FLAC with abcde.mkcue --wholedisc so that I can then later rip to opus/vorbis/aac for listening on other devices (any other mkcue option generates incorrect cues for discs with a lead-in other than 150 frames) .

I don't care too much about the metadata in the FLAC being perfect and I run the lossy-compressed audio through beets to fixup the metadata before transferring to devices for listening.

ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;126;186;228"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues"
BUILD_ID="26.05.20260809.fcb8fcd"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:nixos:nixos:26.05"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME=nixos
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://nixos.org/learn.html"
HOME_URL="https://nixos.org/"
ID=nixos
ID_LIKE=""
IMAGE_ID=""
IMAGE_VERSION=""
LOGO="nix-snowflake"
NAME=NixOS
PRETTY_NAME="NixOS 26.05 (Yarara)"
SUPPORT_END="2026-12-31"
SUPPORT_URL="https://nixos.org/community.html"
VARIANT=""
VARIANT_ID=""
VENDOR_NAME=NixOS
VENDOR_URL="https://nixos.org/"
VERSION="26.05 (Yarara)"
VERSION_CODENAME=yarara
VERSION_ID="26.05"
GNU bash, version 5.3.9(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This is abcde v2.11.2-DEV.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
abcde -h for extra help
model name	: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
[4:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  HL-DT-ST BD-RE  WH16NS60  1.03  /dev/sr0 
[10:0:0:0]   cd/dvd  HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GP65NB60  PF00  /dev/sr1 
[11:0:0:0]   cd/dvd  PIONEER  BD-RW  BDR-XD08U 1.04  /dev/sr2