A simple wrapper around abcde to rip multi-disc audiobooks

This script came out of a personal need and, at this point, is designed entirely around what my workflow looks like. It was not originally designed to be a general purpose tool and might not fit your needs perfectly. If not, please fork and let me know. I'm happy to spend some more time on it.

Here's my use case for the tool. I frequently get audiobooks on CD which I want to rip to MP3 files. I want an automated system for ripping those discs, ending with a directory structure that looks like:

  author
  ├── title-Disc-1
  │   ├── 1.Track_1.mp3
  │   ├── 2.Track_2.mp3
  │   └── 3.Track_3.mp3
  ├── title-Disc-2
  │   ├── 1.Track_1.mp3
  │   ├── 2.Track_2.mp3
  │   └── 3.Track_3.mp3
  └── title-Disc-3
      └── 1.Track_1.mp3
  [etc]

Abcde does quite a lot of this, but getting the multi-disc aspect of it seemed outside the scope of that product. This script is just a bash shell wrapper around abcde to generate that format.

Simply copy the script to a location in your PATH and type

audio-book-cde [abcde conf file]

If you do not specify a conf file for abcde, one will be provided for you. The contents of this conf file are visible in the script itself, but they basically tell abcde to not prompt, to not query cddb and to put the files in the desired directory structure.

Note You must have abcde installed with all of the other applications needed to rip into your desired format.

Note that I wrote and tested this script on linux-mint 17 (Qiana). I make no promises that this will work on other versions of linux.

The most likely issue you will run into will be with the wait_for_cd function which seems like it might not be universal.

The rest of it is fairly vanilla bash.