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 Just some tiny scripts to work with FLAC files.
 
-To be installed in /usr/local/bin, or wherever it suits you.
+To be installed in /usr/local/bin, or wherever it suits you. It requires
+a few external tools that can be obtained by installing the following Debian 
+packages:
+
+    apt-get install cuetools flac shntool