How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

Exitium · 2008-11-24 16:03:32

So how can I play .ape lossless audio with Amarok? Amarok says, that file is unplayable. I can play the file with MPlayer, though.

Last edited by Exitium (2008-11-26 15:45:00)

.:B:. · 2008-11-24 16:42:35

According to this you can't. You'd need gstreamer, and Amarok hasn't been building against gstreamer for quite a while now. I thought Phonon could work with gstreamer though, so maybe you have more luck if you use KDE 4's Amarok (you didn't say what you were using anyway?).

Exitium · 2008-11-24 16:50:03

B wrote:

According to this you can't. You'd need gstreamer, and Amarok hasn't been building against gstreamer for quite a while now. I thought Phonon could work with gstreamer though, so maybe you have more luck if you use KDE 4's Amarok (you didn't say what you were using anyway?).

Sorry, I am using KDE3 version (1.4.10).

But that's a pity. Well, I'll test KDE4 version of Amarok (I have planned to test it for several days) and if it doesn't help, then I try to do something else.

I also tried to convert these files to .flac or .mp3. I tried it with audio-convert (from community-repo), but it says that format is not supported. But description says that .ape files are supported.

Exitium · 2008-11-26 15:35:26

No luck with Amarok 2. Nice new player, though.

So, does anybody know how to convert these .ape files into .flac or .mp3 (or other)? As I said, no luck with audio-convert.

skottish · 2008-11-26 15:39:28

Exitium wrote:

No luck with Amarok 2. Nice new player, though.
So, does anybody know how to convert these .ape files into .flac or .mp3 (or other)? As I said, no luck with audio-convert.

Newer revisions of FFmpeg can decode ape files, and it can use either an external or internal libraries for flac. You can try this for a single file. For the external libraries:

ffmpeg -i <your_ape_file> -acodec libflac <your_output_file>.flac

For the internal libraries:

ffmpeg -i <your_ape_file> -acodec flac <your_output_file>.flac

This won't keep your tags though.

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-26 15:43:39)

Exitium · 2008-11-26 15:44:31

skottish wrote:

Exitium wrote:
No luck with Amarok 2. Nice new player, though.
So, does anybody know how to convert these .ape files into .flac or .mp3 (or other)? As I said, no luck with audio-convert.
Newer revisions of FFmpeg can decode ape files, and it can use either an external or internal libraries for flac. You can try this for a single file. For the external libraries:
ffmpeg -i <your_ape_file> -acodec libflac <your_output_file>.flac
For the internal libraries:
ffmpeg -i <your_ape_file> -acodec flac <your_output_file>.flac
This won't keep your tags though.

Second command did the trick. Thank you very much.

Well, I think the problem is solved.

skottish · 2008-11-26 15:48:02

Exitium wrote:

Second command did the trick. Thank you very much.
Well, I think the problem is solved.

You're welcome. Giving advice on FFmpeg is always tricky because I don't know what the capabilities of the version in the repos are, as well I have no idea what you're set up is like. I'm just glad that it worked.

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-26 15:48:28)

felixhummel · 2012-02-15 14:37:12

Thanks!

This won't keep your tags though.

Actually you can keep your tags with the "-map_meta_data" option. Here's my script "ape2flac":

#!/bin/bash
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=sh :
fname="$1"
base=$(basename "$fname" .ape)
flacname="$base.flac"

set -x
ffmpeg -i "$fname" -map_meta_data "$fname":"$flacname" -acodec flac "$flacname"

And call it like this

./ape2flac foo_bar.flac

Unfortunately it does not work for file names with spaces but I don't mind as I like underscores better anyway.

Arch Linux

#1 2008-11-24 16:03:32

How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#2 2008-11-24 16:42:35

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#3 2008-11-24 16:50:03

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#4 2008-11-26 15:35:26

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#5 2008-11-26 15:39:28

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#6 2008-11-26 15:44:31

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#7 2008-11-26 15:48:02

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

#8 2012-02-15 14:37:12

Re: How to play .ape files with Amarok [SOLVED, converted to flac]

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