abcde_2.9.3.orig.tar.gz

abcde interfaces ================ abcde uses a lot of files as it runs in order to keep track of current status and to store the various bits of data it's using, like cddb lookups and results, user choices, encoding etc. Here is (the start of!) a quick guide to what each file is used for. Each file lives in $ABCDETEMPDIR at runtime, which is the per-disc working directory that abcde uses. Once the "clean" operation has happened, they all go away. CD lookups ---------- cddbchoices - concatenation of all the lookups with some status information. Displayed to the user once all the lookups are complete, as the list of results to choose from. cddbread.X - generic-ish results from a disc lookup, for match number X. Based on the format used by *cddb*, but the musicbrainz and cdtext lookup methods have been written to (roughly) output this format as an interface so the rest of the abcde code doesn't need massive adaptation to new formats. Match number 0 is special - it's a blank template file ready for the user to edit in case there's no correct match. datasource.X- text label for the source of the data in cddbread.X, e.g. "cddb" or "Musicbrainz". Generated by the data lookup methods, then used later if we care where the data came from. cddbquery.X - Summary of a single disc lookup result. Based on the complicated format used by *cddb*, but without the result code. Generated by the data lookup methods, then used later to fabricate a composite cddbquery file. cddbquery - result code and summary of a disc lookup. Based on the format used by *cddb*, and faked up by the other lookup methods. A single successful match will look like: 200 $genre $discid $artist / $album Multiple successful matches will show up as 210 Found exact matches, list follows (until terminating `.') $genre1 $discid $artist1 / $album1 $genre2 $discid $artist2 / $album2 . Other response codes are possible, 999 is special and used internally by abcde to denote a local cddb data cache cue-<discid>.txt - cue file generated from the track data on the disc cddbdiscid - raw data showing the cddb discid and the track info numbers used to calculate it mbdiscid - raw data showing a musicbrainz discid and the track info numbers used to calculate it status - log file of all the operations carried out thus far. Format is important - things are looked up here regularly to work out what's happened and what should be done next. See usage of the checkstatus() function to look for things. Files specific to lookups using *cddb*, in the data-cddb subdir: * cddbstat - status from a cddb server, downloaded as a check that the server is working correctly (ish!) Files specific to lookups using *musicbrainz*: * asin.X -\ details about musicbrainz-specific information for * mbid.X -/ match number X. specific to lookups using *cdtext*, in the data-cdtext subdir: * cd-text - the raw CD-Text information as returned by icedax/cdda2wav ... More to follow...?