[linux-audio-user] The dreaded .ape

[Svante Eriksson]

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

I have only used it for decoding (transcoding to FLAC).

/Svante
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