17 Oct
2003
17 Oct
'03
8:21 p.m.
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?
i was quite surprised to see that the command-line ape decoder seems to
run fine under wine. Mac.exe appears to be selfcontained. I had to
copy this from an MS machine as the Ape installer didnt work.
i'm using this relatively untested script.
Maybe others will find it useful....?
-----------------start:ape2flac.sh------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# wrapper script for converting multiple ape files to flac.
#
# author: Tim Orford. date: 031015. license: GPL.
#
# notes:
# -any ape meta tags will be lost!
# -filenames with spaces are converted to use underscores instead.
# -you need to copy Mac.exe to the current directory.
#
# todo:
# -i dont know how you pass arguments to wine when they contain spaces.
# -dont know how wine handles paths. Copy Mac.exe to the current
# directory.
#config:
monkeypath="MAC.exe";
# -z == null
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "usage: ape2flac.sh <filename(s)>"
exit;
fi;
echo "encoding "$#" files to flac...";
declare -i idx;
idx=1;
#echo "$idx: filename: $filename";
for filename in "$@";
do
echo "";
echo $'\033['"01;33m"$idx: $filename$'\033['"0m";
#remove spaces in filenames:
newname=${filename// /_};
if [ $newname != $filename ]; then mv "$filename" $newname; fi;
filename=$newname;
#decode ape to wav:
wine -- $monkeypath "$filename" tmp.wav -d
#re-encode to flac:
if flac --best --no-delete-input-file -V "tmp.wav"\
-o ${filename%.*}.flac > temp.log 2>&1; then
echo "flac OK" > /dev/null; #hack
else
echo "ERROR: flac failed. Pls see flac.log";
fi
# check the log file and look for "Verify OK":
# -actually we could just check the last line.
IFS="
"
for line in `cat temp.log`;
do
#echo line=$line;
if echo "$line" | grep "Verify OK" >/dev/null; then
echo " Verified Ok";
fi
done
cat temp.log >> flac.log;
rm temp.log;
idx=$idx+1;
filename=${!idx};
#remove temp
if [ -f "tmp.wav" ]; then rm tmp.wav; fi;
done;
echo "";
echo "ape sucks! flac rocks! :-)"
-----------------end:ape2flac.sh------------------
cheers
--
Tim Orford