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Converting APE to FLAC

Should I be using Monkey's GUI to decompress the APE to WAV, then encode to FLAC?

Or will I get the same result by just using the convert in foobar and going straight from APE to FLAC?

Converting APE to FLAC

Reply #1 –
The results (which can be verified by MD5 sums (or "fingerprints")) are identical.
Go ahead with foobar2000

Converting APE to FLAC

Reply #2 –
Make sure you remember to turn off the DSP and Replaygain from the Diskwriter/Converter preferences if you truly want the results to be the same.

Converting APE to FLAC

Reply #3 –
Will do, thanks guys. 
 

Converting APE to FLAC

Reply #4 –
There was some discussion recently about the official APE decoder and how it may not report invalid checksums properly. I've used a hex editor on APE files to test foobar, and it's decoder works fine so I would recommend it over anything else just to be safe. I've thought about switching away from APE as well mainly because of this, but since I only use foobar and it is 100% reliable with APE files, I decided to stick the format for now. The encoding speed is fast, decoding speed is alright (kind of slow, but faster than most encoders so I don't see it when transcoding), file size at -c3000 is better than FLAC or Wavpack, and CPU usage during playback is generally 3% or less. If I were to switch, I'd probably pick Wavpack since it's pretty close file size-wise, and is better performance-wise. Sorry, just babbling now heh...