http://gimpel.gi.funpic.de/Howtos/convert_ape/index.html

Howto: convert ape to wav/mp3/ogg on Linux
Note: for a German version visit http://linwiki.de
Convert ape to wav

.ape is the file extension for Monkey's Audio Files. Monkey's Audio is a pseudo-free lossless audio codec, like flac or mpc.


Installing MAC for Linux

    There is a version of MAC compiled for Linux, available at http://www.monkeysaudio.com/files/MAC_LINUX_396a1.zip. After playing around with that, we realize that damn thing doesn't work... 

 

    So we get the source of mac-port for Linux at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/.
    and compile it:

./configure
make
su -c 'make install'


    Gentoo users can find an ebuild in the Downloads section around here. 


Convert
Now we can convert our ape file with:

mac infile.ape outfile.wav -d

Afterwards we can use lame, oggenc or any other converter and convert our file.
There is also a superb frontend for MAC and lots of other codecs available: gnormalize. Gentoo users can find an ebuild for gnormalize here.

 

 
Split ape with cue
To be able to split up a single ape file with cue file to single tracks, you will first have to decompress it to wav like described above. Then you can use the tool bchunk to split it. no need to change the cue file that came together with the ape:

bchunk -w image.wav image.cue result

    Where :

        image.wav is your large wav file
        image.cue is the cue file
        result is the prefix for your wav songs (which gives you result01.wav, result02.wav...)

    Big thx to nico for that hint! 

If you intend to convert to mp3 anyway, the best is to convert the complete decompressed .wav to mp3 using lame, and then using mp3splt to split it. mp3splt writes the tags! 

Linux/Musik/Formate/ape (last modified 2008-11-04 06:59:56)