Install abcde on Mac

Install abcde using Brew in easy steps

abcde Package Installation on Mac

About abcde :  A Better CD Encoder!

Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then tagging or commenting it, is very involved. abcde is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A (AAC) or Opus format(s). With one command, it will:

• 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
• Calculate replaygain 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

Alternatively, abcde can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be treated as if it was the original CD. In a way, abcde can take a compressed backup of your CD collection. 

More Information: https://abcde.einval.com

Steps:

1. Launch Terminal by pressing command+space, type terminal and hit Enter key.


2. Install homebrew, if you dont have:
   
   

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null



3. Install abcde
   
   

   brew install abcde

Done!