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ganlu

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From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 360

Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

I can't use rhythmbox to play my APE format music, if I missed something? Thanks in advance.

pablored

Member

Registered: 2004-06-26

Posts: 25

Re: Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

Yes it can.

You need the gst-monkeysaudio plugin for gstreamer. 

This is a quick modified version of another plugin's pkgbuild, probably not perfect.  There may be a TUR around already. 

pkgname=gst-monkeysaudio
pkgver=0.8.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GNOME2 Gstreamer Multimedia Framework Plugin"
depends=('gstreamer>=0.8.2' 'lame'  'gnome-vfs'  'libmad' 'libid3tag'  'libdvdnav' 'flac' 'libdv' 'faac' 'faad2' 'hermes' 'libraw1394' 'libsndfile' 'libmikmod' 'mjpegtools' 'perl' 'musicbrainz')
makedepends=('intltool')
url="http://www.gnome.org"
install=gst-plugins.install
groups=('gnome-extra')
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/$pkgname/0.8/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2 
        gst-plugins.install)

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --disable-arts --disable-artsc
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
  rm -rf $startdir/pkg/root/
}

pablored

Member

Registered: 2004-06-26

Posts: 25

Re: Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

Unfortunately there is no cue file support.  And according to the rhythmbox devs there is no need for it

They obviously don't have a 300 cd collection ripped to APE, CUE.

ganlu

Member

From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 360

Re: Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

Yes it can.

Good news.

Unfortunately there is no cue file support. And according to the rhythmbox devs there is no need for it

Bad news, and  I surely have some APE and CUE music. Can I use "mount" command to mount CUE file and listen?

Junzki

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Registered: 2013-09-08

Posts: 1

Re: Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

Package gst-libav can do.

Last edited by Junzki (2017-12-19 16:43:22)

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,684

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Re: Can rhythmbox play APE music files?

13 year necrobump. Amazing.

Don't do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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