Freedb is no more, so it would make sense to change the default to freedb (and the submit address to submit@gnudb.org). Upstream is archived, so such a change would have to happen in the port skeleton. Happy to provide a patch, if the maintainer agrees to this change.
audio/ripit has been marked DEPRECATED in PR 248426 and will be removed from the ports tree in the near future. Therefore I don't think there is any need to patch stuff in the port.
Oh sad - I would like to take maintainership and keep it alive, as it still works fine for me. I'm not sure about the note on bug #248426 about missing https causing it to break, I've been using it this morning with CDDBHOST=gnudb.org mirror=gnudb in ~/.ripit/config and it worked just fine.
I was using Musicbrainz for metadata and that failed to fetch, when I tested it. If you want to take maintainership, feel free :) Upstream is gone, the port uses an archived version in my github.
(In reply to tobias.rehbein from comment #3) > the port uses an archived version in my github. Oh, wasn't aware that this was *your* github... I'll try audio/abcde first and see if I'm happy with it. If not, I'll takeover audio/ripit before its expiration date. Thanks for your quick response.
(In reply to tobias.rehbein from comment #3) > Upstream is gone, the port uses an archived version in my github. Actually, upstream still exists under http://www.ripit.pl and provides tarballs for download - but no new development is happening. That said, I finally found some time to play with audio/abcde and I'm happy with the results. So I agree with you that there's no real reason to keep audio/ripit on life support. Therefore I'm closing this PR. By the way, I use the following ~/.abcde.conf to get output similar to what I got with ripit: PADTRACKS=y LAMEOPTS="--preset extreme" OGGENCOPTS="-q 5" EYED3OPTS="--encoding latin1 --non-std-genres" OUTPUTDIR=/music/incoming OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE} - ${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM} ${TRACKFILE}' VAOUTPUTFORMAT='Various - ${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM} ${ARTISTFILE} - ${TRACKFILE}' mungefilename () { echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^\.*//' | tr -d ":><|*/\"'?[:cntrl:]" } It might make sense to add "--non-std-genres" to the sample configuration, otherwise files stay completely untagged in case of no/an unknown genre (see also https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72 ).