[abcde] Bug#112674: abcde: Create empty output files at start

[dom@earth.li]

Package: abcde
Version: 2.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Rather trivial point, but...

It would be nice if abcde created empty output files before it starts ripping.
This would enable building playlists in advance, and doing for example
"mpg123 *.mp3" in the destination directory, to be able to start listening to
mp3s in advance of the encode process being complete.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux callisto 2.4.9 #1 Tue Aug 28 18:23:30 BST 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages abcde depends on:
ii  cd-discid      0.7-1          CDDB DiscID utility
ii  cdda2wav       1.9-1          Creates WAV files from audio cd's
ii  cdparanoia     3a9.8-4        An audio extraction tool for sampling CDs.
ii  vorbis-tools   1.0rc1-1       Several Ogg Vorbis Tools
ii  wget           1.6-2          utility to retrieve files from the WWW via H

--- Begin /etc/abcde.conf (modified conffile)
CDDBURL="http://uk.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"
LAMEOPTS='-b 56 -v -h  -V 3'
OUTPUTDIR=/home/dom/mp3
WAVOUTPUTDIR=/tmp/rip/wav
OUTPUTTYPE=mp3
OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}.${OUTPUTTYPE}'
VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE}.${OUTPUTTYPE}'
ID3TAGV=both

--- End /etc/abcde.conf

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