While ripping CDs, I noticed that abcde did not use CD-Text that was available on the CD - but that is important if the information is missing from Musicbrainz.
I found a bug report that suggested to install the icedax package that brings a fixed cdda2wav binary.
abcde.conf must also be modified to fall back to cdtext instead of using musicbrainz as only source:
CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz,cdtext
Now I also know what to do when I manually want to read cd-text on the linux command line:
$ cdda2wav -J -v titles -D /dev/sr0 Type: ROM, Vendor 'ATAPI ' Model 'iHAS524 A ' Revision 'BL2J' MMC+CDDA 569344 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 55 sectors #icedax version 1.1.11, real time sched., soundcard, libparanoia support CDINDEX discid: TbQEPRnVPidhqKSD.48c1zlPxVY- CDDB discid: 0xfe104621 CD-Text: detected CD-Extra: not detected Album title: '04: Leben der Ritter / Mächtige Burgen' [from ] Track 1: 'Thema 1: Ritter' Track 2: 'Thema 1: Was sind Ritter?' Track 3: 'Thema 1: Das Training der Ritter' Track 4: 'Thema 1: Was ist ein sogenanntes Gestech?' Track 5: 'Thema 1: Die Ausbildung zu einem Ritter' Track 6: 'Thema 1: Lernen von Manieren und Umgangformen' Track 7: 'Thema 1: Die Nachricht vom Boten' Track 8: 'Thema 1: Der Ritterschlag ' Track 9: 'Thema 1: Aus was besteht die Rüstung?' Track 10: 'Thema 1: Wann lebten die Ritter?' Track 11: 'Thema 1: Aussterben der Ritter' Track 12: 'Thema 1: Große Feste ' Track 13: 'Thema 2: Burgen' Track 14: 'Thema 2: Was ist eine Burg?' Track 15: 'Thema 2: Wann gab es die ersten Burgen?' Track 16: 'Thema 2: Alles aus Stein' Track 17: 'Thema 2: Der Bau einer Burg' Track 18: 'Thema 2: Wie lang dauerte der Bau einer Burg?' Track 19: 'Thema 2: Die Gebäude einer Burg' Track 20: 'Thema 2: Wasser ist wichtig' Track 21: 'Thema 2: Viele Krabbeltiere' Track 22: 'Thema 2: Was passiert in den Werkstätten?' Track 23: 'Thema 2: Der Kerker' Track 24: 'Thema 2: Was ist der Palas?' Track 25: 'Thema 2: Die Fenster' Track 26: 'Thema 2: Das Spielzeug in der Ritterzeit' Track 27: 'Thema 2: Was gab es zum Essen?' Track 28: 'Thema 2: Mit den Fingern essen' Track 29: 'Thema 2: Die Wachen in der Burg' Track 30: 'Thema 2: Angriff' Track 31: 'Thema 2: Viele verschiedene Angriffsmöglichkeiten' Track 32: 'Thema 2: Was ist der Bergfried?' Track 33: 'Thema 2: Das Ende der Ritterzeit'