Q: no colors in xterm and/or on textconsole
A: check enviromentvariable TERM. Unfortunately ncurses is suboptimal for
   "unusual" terminalenviroment ;-) MP3c works well for me, if TERM=linux.

Q: some keys (often Meta and F-keys) won't work
A: I think this isn't only problem of MP3c, but of ncurses and/or terminal.
   I mapped F-keys to 1-0 and Meta+SHIFT+y to Meta+j. So press "3" instead of
   F3 if you want to encode.

Q: "ripper", "encoder", "mp3-info" childprocess died unexpected
A: it seems that your ripper, encoder, or tag-program does not work as
   expected (this means it aborted with an exitcode != EXIT_SUCCESS). You
   should check the output of the program and try to fix it (in most cases
   just the syntax of the parameters is wrong).

Q: CDDB access doesn't work (Update)
A: you must have a connection to internet to receive CDDB-informations. If
   you don't have this, you should disable remote-looking-up (do this by input
   "0" for CDDB-server in configmenu or by pressing "l").
   MP3c also looks on your local CDDB-base (if you have this). I think that
   you can download big packages of entries from freedb.freedb.org.
   CDDB.com now refuses connects from noregistered clients, so just ignore
   them and switch to "freedb.freedb.org:8880". See http://freedb.org/ for
   more infos.
   I this all does not help (maybe there isn't any entry for your cd), just
   input data manually ;-)

Q: How does CDDB transmit and or save works?
A: You can save your cd data into your local cd database by pressing "m" or
   transmit them to the internet server by pressing "M" (Shift+"m").
   Please note that transmitting an entry does not mean that it is saved into
   your local database (and vice versa), so press "m" and "M" if you want
   both.

Q: Saving and/or transmitting an CDDB entry failes because datas missing
   (artist or album title).
A: To save and/or transmit an entry you have to input at least one albumtitle
   and one artist of any track.

Q: I input so much data and saved it to my CDDB database, but after reloading
   many information like genre and albumname are missing.
A: This is a common problem with the CDDB format. There is only space for one
   album name, one artist and a songtitle for each track. MP3c can save at
   least artist and songtitle for each track (on sampler-cd), any more is not
   possible in this form of CDDB format.
   [cddb.com introduced a new format, but this is restricted and not useable
   unter GPL and Open Source, so it will not be used by MP3c]

Q: CDDB.com refuses my transmissions (update)
A: CDDB.com uses an anti-open-source policy. Please do not use CDDB.com any
   longer and use freedb.org therefore (freedb.org is now the default server
   for MP3c).
   Furthermore CDDB.com refuses search request too now, so you have to use
   freedb.org
   Please change your config like this:
   CDDB-Server: "freedb.freedb.org:8880"
   CDDB-eMail:  "freedb-submit@freedb.org"
   Find more information about freedb.org under http://freedb.org
   
Q: What about the little genre list while saving/transmitting CDDB entries?
A: There are only few genres which can be used with CDDB and some are hard-
   coded in the program. Nevertheless you should use the "update genre list"
   feature (requires CDDB remote access) if you want to get all available
   genres or if you are using save/transmit the first time.
   
Q: While transmitting an CDDB entry I got the message "relaying failed"
A: This is due to a configuration problem. In the moment MP3c does only
   support transmitting via eMail (will change in the next versions), so you
   have to input a proper mailaddress for your relaying SMTP server. The datas
   for your personal mailaddress and your SMTP server are just the same you
   use in your favorit mailprogram (if you set up a local MTA like sendmail,
   it should be possible to use "localhost:smtp" as server and any of your
   mailaddresses - with local MTA you also can transmit entries while offline,
   just flush all mails by typing "sendmail -q" when you are offline, like
   you always do).

Q: I want to rip several cds, before I encode it, and I have much space on my
   harddisk.
A: No problem at all. You have two possibilities for this:
   a) in interactive mode use F6 to rip a complete cd: the ripped tracks will
      go to the right side. You can rip as many cds as you like (watch your
      harddisk space :). To start encoding just change to right side (with
      tabulator key) and start it by pressing F3.
   b) just create several shellscripts in batch-mode (see BATCH.README for
      more details).

Q:  CDparanoia does not work as expected
A1: CDparanoia needs access to your cdrom-device. There are two possibilites to
    archive this: 1) give cdparanoia suid-root rights, or 2) (better in my
    opinion) change the rights of the cdrom-device to allow access by the
    user and/or group.
A2: Never use CDparanoia with the "-B" option, this would cause a wrong tmp-
    filename, and the encoding process wouldn't work.
   
Q: MP3c seems to hang while external programs running (ripper, encoder,
   mp3info) and does not abort even if F10 is pressed.
A: Maybe you configured the external programs false, and it is now waiting
   for any input. Unfortunately MP3c wouldn't get any keystrokes any longer,
   so it cannot abort if F10 is pressed. Try STRG+C instead or just kill the
   external program.

Q: I have a problem with external programs, when the ripper/encoder finished
   his job, MP3c waits for a key.
Q: MP3c displays non-printable characters in the input box, and behaves
   strange.
A: You're using Mandrake? It seems there is a problem in the ncurses-
   version shipped with Mandrake. Try to get a new version, or ask me for
   a static linked binary of MP3c.
   
Q: I have problems with the autoconf/automake stuff on BSD (by Scott Aaron
   Bamford).
A: bmake (BSD's make) clean and distclean do not work, seem automake related.
   Some of autoconf's defines might be wrong, if it's installed by OS's
   package system somewhere.
   
Q: The shellscripts MP3c produces do not work at all.
A: This seems due to a buggy bash-version. Please use Bash 2.00 or newer.
   The style of batch-scripts will change in later release (maybe 0.28).

Q: MP3c aborts with segmentation fault
A: Wooh, that should really not happen. I run a lot of tests with strict
   malloc-check, and it seems that there aren't any memory leaks. But I will
   try to fix it, if you can reproduce the problem. Maybe you can me send
   core-file AND executable, or a little analyse with gdb (just start
   "gdb mp3c core" and type "where").

Q: Where can I find new versions and further information of MP3c?
A: Look on my MP3c webpage at http://mp3c.wspse.de/
   Furthermore I can keep you informed about new version, if you subscribe
   to my announcelist (see http://mailman.wspse.de/ for details)

Q: Is there a public CVS repository of MP3c?
A: Yes (but read-only). Set your CVSROOT enviroment to
   :pserver:cvs@cvs.wspse.de:/public
   The password is "anonymous" and the repository "mp3c"