I know flac is similar to ape in that it's also lossless. Is the
compression any better or the algorithms more efficient? Are there any
other advantages that would make me really love flac? ;-)
Thanks for you bit of code :-)
Regards,
David
Stan Mulder wrote:
At some point I started having trouble with the APE mac binary. It
stopped handling stdout processing for some reason and my piping would
no longer work. In disgust I made it a habit of converting all ape
file to flac and the problem is solved. Flac is open source. Ape sort
of is and sort of isn't. I say go with flac.
The following converts all ape files in the current directory to flac
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.ape
do
mac "$i" "$i.wav" -d
flac -f --delete-input-file "$i.wav"
done
David Bosque wrote:
Hello,
This is my first post here and want to say that I've really loved
gnump3d from the first moment I installed it :-).
My question is regarding the conversion and streaming of ape files.
I'll relate what I've done, and the problem I have found at the very
end.
I've been searching the list and have found something similar done
with flac files. Here are the steps I have taken:
I have added the following line to /etc/mime.types:
audio/x-ape ape
I have also tried using, to no avail:
audio/mpeg mpga mpega mp2 mp3 m4a ape
I have compiled and installed mac-port from sourceforge, found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/
Also there's a small tutorial about it at
http://gimpel.gi.funpic.de/Howtos/convert_ape/
After that, I have added the following lines to gnump3d.conf
downsample_high_ape = /usr/bin/mac $FILENAME - -d | /usr/bin/lame -b
128 -h --silent - -
downsample_medium_ape = /usr/bin/mac $FILENAME - -d | /usr/bin/lame
-b 96 -h --silent - -
downsample_low_ape = /usr/bin/mac $FILENAME - -d | /usr/bin/lame -b
64 -h --silent - -
Of course, downsampling enabled and working.
I have checked that the commands for converting the ape files do work
from a command line, the problem I have now is that gnump3d is not
recognizing my .ape files as audio files and, thus, not showing them
as a choice to be played.
I have been playing with the command "file" and modifying the
/etc/magic file and /usr/share/misc/file/magic.* files so that "file"
would recognize a ".ape" as an audio file (thinking gnump3d was using
it to identify audio files) and, indeed, I got it to work, but gnump3d
still was not showing my .ape files in any directory.
I know I am very, very close to getting it working, so I refuse to
give in. Any brilliant ideas? ;-)
Regards,
David
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