Hi Stan, I think you forgot to send your message to the list again ;-). I'll forward it again as I think it may be interesting to others.
I've made a comparison between ape and flac at it's maximum compression and I got the same results as you (high compression in flac does take much longer and the winning in size is almost negligible). I have around 9gb in ape files now and growing, some day I'll take the time to convert it all to flac, but for now I'll leave as it is, as I am not going to see any difference. Thanks for your interest, anyway. Regards, David Con fecha lunes, 30 de enero de 2006, 16:58:07, escribiste: > David Bosque wrote: >> I know flac is similar to ape in that it's also lossless. > Exactly. >> Is the compression any better or the algorithms more efficient? > APE is a bit better with compression, but flac is faster. Here are some > recent examples I did yesterday converting ape to flac > song 1: > ape: 16meg > flac: 17meg > song 2: > ape: 25meg > flac: 26meg > song3: > ape: 29meg > flac: 30meg > Pretty close! > Flac does have higher compression settings too. I just use the default > setting because it's fast. >> Are there any other advantages that would make me really love flac? ;-) > The program better supports all the main operating systems > (win/mac/linux) and source code is available to compile it for others. > Since its open source there's less a chance of it going away by some big > company buying it up. The 'f' in flac means 'free.' > BTW, I meant to share my original message with you via the gnump3d-users > list because others can benefit, but I forgot to properly address the email. > Regards, > Stan >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gnump3d-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnump3d-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users >> _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users
