HELP from anyone using abcde and cmus!

[tld]

Wow I've spent the entire morning spinning my wheels on this and have googled more crap that you could imagine. This has me beyond confused:

I haven't had an occasion to rip CDs in a while and hadn't used abcde in quite some time. Old things I've ripped from have ID3 version 1 tags which are working correctly in cmus. However anything I rip now with abcde appears to get only ID3 v2.4 tags.

When I add any of those to cmus, the come up with an artist of "<No Name>". So several questions I've yet to figure out:

a) Is cmus supposed to be able to recognize those?, but more importantly:

b) Can abcde be configured to create ID3 version 1 tags?

Stuff just can't be as bad as this seems. Not getting anywhere with this and have been googling and screwing with this seemingly forever.

Thanks in advance
Tom

[tld]

OK. I at least did figure out that I can get ID3 V1 tags by adding this to my ~/.abcde.conf file:

[lars_the_bear]

I don't use MP3 much these days, so I don't have anything with an ID3v2.4 tag. But I don't have any difficulty with cmus reading ID3v2.3 tags. I wouldn't want to have to go back to ID3v1.

BR, Lars.

[tld]

Yea, I don't get it at all. I don't see any USE that would affect that either.

Funny you should mention not using mp3 much, because I actually had been thinking about changing abcde to output as flac. Interestingly those not only work fine in cmus, but they pick up the artist name no problem and, as far as I can tell, don't use ID3 tags of any sort.

So I think I'll just stick with that.

Thanks!
Tom

[lars_the_bear]