[linux-audio-user] The dreaded .ape

[S. Massy]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Svante Eriksson <maillists at svante.eriksson.name> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:03:00 +0200, Tim Orford <tim at orford.org> said:
> TO> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:21:38PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> 
> >> Anyone knows whether there is any way to decode .ape files in Linux? I believe
> >> there is an xmms plugin lying around somewhere: any other decoder one might
> >> use?
> 
> TO> i was quite surprised to see that the command-line ape decoder seems to
> TO> run fine under wine. Mac.exe appears to be selfcontained. I had to
> TO> copy this from an MS machine as the Ape installer didnt work.
> 
> TO> i'm using this relatively untested script.
> TO> Maybe others will find it useful....?
> 
> TO> [...]
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Both the APE source code and statically linked Linux binaries
> are available at:
> 
>  http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MPP/index2.html#ape
Hey, thanks! I wonder why this never came up on google...
S.M.
> 
> I have only used it for decoding (transcoding to FLAC).
> 
> /Svante
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