High quality rip audio CD to FLAC with abcde on Mac and Linux

# -----------------$HOME/.abcde.conf----------------- #
#
# A sample configuration file to convert music cds to
#       FLAC using abcde version 2.9.3
#
#         https://andrews-corner.org/abcde/
# -------------------------------------------------- #

# 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="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"

# 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"

# Specify the encoder to use for FLAC. In this case
# flac is the only choice.
FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac

# Specify the path to the selected encoder. In most cases the encoder
# should be in your $PATH as I illustrate below, otherwise you will
# need to specify the full path. For example: /usr/bin/flac
FLAC=flac

# Specify your required encoding options here. Multiple options can
# be selected as '--best --another-option' etc.
# Overall bitrate is about 880 kbs/s with level 8.
FLACOPTS='-s -e -V -8'

# Output type for FLAC.
OUTPUTTYPE="flac"

# 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} ${ARTISTFILE} ${TRACKFILE}'
VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${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:]"
}

# What extra options?
MAXPROCS=2                              # Run a few encoders simultaneously
PADTRACKS=y                             # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2
EXTRAVERBOSE=2                          # Useful for debugging
# COMMENT='abcde version 2.9.3'           # Place a comment, this will write as value of DESCRIPTION tag.
EJECTCD=y                               # Please eject cd when finished :-)

sudo abcde -o flac
Password:
Executing customizable pre-read function... done.
Getting CD track info... Volume Mozart: Arias on disk8 unmounted
Volume Mozart: Arias on disk8 mounted
Grabbing entire CD - tracks:  01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Found 0 matches so far
Trying lookup method cddb
Checking CDDB server status...
Querying the CDDB server...
Obtaining CDDB results...
Retrieved 1 match...
#1 (cddb): ---- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / ... ----
1: Die.. zum Lose
2: Mitridate,..
3: Don Giovanni,...
4: Ch'io mi scordi...
5: Don Giovanni,...
6: Misera,...
7: Die...

Which entry would you like abcde to use (0 for none)? [0-1]: 1
Selected: #1 ...
Year: 1987
Genre: Classical
...
Edit selected CDDB data [y/N]? n
Is the CD multi-artist [y/N]?
Creating playlist...
Grabbing track 01: ...
Encoding track 01 of 07: ...
encodetrack-flac-01 nice -n 10 flac -f -s -e -V -8 -o Music/CD/abcde.6c0d3d07/track01.flac Music/CD/abcde.6c0d3d07/track01.wav
track01.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown chunk 'FVER' (use --keep-foreign-metadata to keep)
encodetrack-01 true
Tagging track 01 of 07: ...
tagtrack-flac-01 nice -n 10 metaflac --no-utf8-convert --import-tags-from=- Music/CD/abcde.6c0d3d07/track01.flac
tagtrack-01 true
movetrack-01 mv Music/CD/abcde.6c0d3d07/track01.flac ...
movetrack-output-flac true
...
...
...
Volume failed to eject
Finished.

$ abcde -o flac
[ERROR] abcde: cd-discid is not in your path.
[INFO] Define the full path to the executable if it exists on your system.

$ brew info cd-discid
==> cd-discid: stable 1.4 (bottled), HEAD
Read CD and get CDDB discid information
https://linukz.org/cd-discid.shtml
Not installed


brew install cd-discid

$ abcde -o flac
Volume Audio CD on disk9 unmounted
cd-discid: /dev/disk9: open: Permission denied
Error: cannot open device `/dev/disk9'
[ERROR] abcde: abcde-musicbrainz-tool failed to run; ABORT

$ sudo abcde -o flac
Password:
Executing customizable pre-read function... done.
Getting CD track info... Volume Audio CD on disk9 unmounted
Volume Audio CD on disk9 mounted
Grabbing entire CD - tracks:  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Found 0 matches so far
Trying lookup method cddb
Checking CDDB server status...
Querying the CDDB server...
Obtaining CDDB results...
Retrieving multiple matches... done.
Retrieved 3 matches...
...

abcde

abcde -o mp3

abcde -o flac

abcde -o vorbis

abcde -d /dev/cdrom -o mp3 -x -N -P -o /path/to/output

abcde -l

abcde -c /path/to/custom_abcde.conf

abcde -o mp3 -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean -x -B -p

$ abcde -h
This is abcde v2.9.3.
Usage: abcde [options] [tracks]
Options:
-1     Encode the whole CD in a single file
-a <action1[,action2]...>
       Actions to perform, comma separated:
       (cddb,read,getalbumart,embedalbumart,normalize,encode,
       tag,move,replaygain,playlist,clean)
-b     Enable batch normalization
-B     Embed albumart (this also activates getalbumart)
-c <file>
       Specify a configuration file (overrides system and user config files)
-C <discid#>
       Specify discid to resume from (only needed if you no longer have the cd)
-d <device>
       Specify CDROM device to grab (flac uses a single-track flac file)
-D     Debugging mode (equivalent to sh -x abcde)
-e     Erase encoded track information from status file
-f     Force operations that otherwise are considered harmful. Read "man abcde"
-g     Use "lame --nogap" for MP3 encoding. Disables low disk and pipes flags
-G     Get album art by using the 'getalbumart' action
-h     This help information
-j <#> Number of encoder processes to run at once (localhost)
-k     Keep the wav tracks for later use
-l     Use low disk space algorithm
-L     Use local CDDB storage directory
-m     Modify playlist to include CRLF endings, to comply with some players
-n     No lookup. Don't query CDDB, just create and use template
-N     Noninteractive. Never prompt for anything
-o <type1[,type2]...>
       Output file type(s), comma separated
       (vorbis,mp3,flac,spx,mpc,wav,m4a,opus,mka,wv,ape,mp2,tta,aiff).
       Defaults to vorbis
-p     Pad track numbers with 0's (if less than 10 tracks)
-P     Use UNIX pipes to read+encode without wav files
-Q     CD lookup method(s), comma separated
       (musicbrainz,cddb,cdtext). Defaults to musicbrainz.
-r <host1[,host2]...>
       Also encode on these remote hosts
-s <field>
       Show fields from the CDDB info (year,genre)
-S <#> Set the CD speed
-t <#> Start the track numbering at a given number
-T <#> Same as -t but modifies tag numbering
-U     Do NOT use UNICODE (UTF8) tags and comments
-v     Show version number and exit
-V     Be a bit more verbose about what is happening behind the scenes
-x     Eject CD after all tracks are read
-w <comment>
       Add a comment to the CD tracks
-W <#> Concatenate CDs: -T #01 -w "CD #"
-z     Use debug CDROMREADERSYNTAX option (needs cdparanoia)

Tracks is a space-delimited list of tracks to grab.
Ranges specified with hyphens are allowed (i.e., 1-5).