abcde — A Better CD Encoder, still rocks the audio world

I have always been an audio­phile, not because of the love for tech­nol­o­gy or the chase of puri­ty of sound.

Instead, I love music to the point where it needs to sound nat­ur­al, com­plete and trans­par­ent to the point that you are enjoy­ing the audio work and not wor­ry­ing about “how good” the gear sounds.

While I have gen­er­al­ly pre­ferred to obtain my music in the more tan­gi­ble for­mats such as CD, SACD, and Vinyl I have been work­ing to con­vert my audio to dig­i­tal for­mat for porta­bil­i­ty. I pre­fer FLAC and OGG Vor­bis over MP3 or AAC and ABCDE is the per­fect tool to rip and encode my disks con­sis­tent­ly and efficiently.

I have attached my abcde.conf file for ref­er­ence for those who need a ref­er­ence con­fig­u­ra­tion file for high-qual­i­ty FLAC and OGG, if you un-com­ment the MP3 line, this con­fig­u­ra­tion file will also gen­er­ate MP3 files along side.

If you would like to see the full file with com­ments, its avail­able here abcde.conf with comments