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cuallito

Member

Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 21

Easiest way to play APE sound files

I found a bunch of websites linking to a plugin for xmms, which is what I want, but all links are dead Can I still get the plugin somewhere or do I have to do something else?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Easiest way to play APE sound files

Try this : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=746

EDIT: the xmms-mac plugin is in AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=747
The other PKGBUILD (mac) is a dependency.

Lowe

Member

Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 89

Re: Easiest way to play APE sound files

APE is bad bad bad bad! Flac is a lot better and more widely supported.

Here is a bash script to convert all apes in a folder to flac. Because they're both lossless formats there will be NO loss in quality.

#!/bin/bash
for file in *ape
do
nice --adjustment=5 mac "$file" "$file.wav" -d
done 
rename 's/ape.wav/wav/' *
for file in *wav
do
nice --adjustment=5 flac "$file"
done
mv *.wav *.ape ~/.Trash

Save the above as ape2flac.sh .
Drag this in a folder containg ape files (remember you need flac and mac from aur installed) open a terminal cd to the directory containg the ape2flac script and run ./ape2flac.sh and it will then decompress the apes to wav, then flac will encode them to flac then the script moves all ape and wav files to ~/.Trash.

Speek

Member

Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 36

Re: Easiest way to play APE sound files

Monkey's Audio Codec non-win32 ports:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/