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Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Bajunid on 2007-02-19 14:14:46

Hi,

I stumbled upon foobar about two weeks ago and I never looked back. So thanks.

Okay, back to my real issue.

I have several cue+ape files that I want to transcode or re-encode it to FLAC as I just got a new hardware that support FLAC.

Now I know that I can use the "convert to" option in foobar. My question is that Should I transcode from APE straight to FLAC of do I need to use the Monkey's Audio program to decode the cue+ape file back to wav then use FLAC to encode the Wave file.

Help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Remedial Sound on 2007-02-19 14:50:04

You can (and should) convert directly from .ape to .flac in foobar!

You're probably already aware of these, but if not...

1. foobar doesn't have Monkey's Audio decoding support out of the box, so you need to install the optional component available here (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/index.html).

2. you need to have flac.exe on you system, and configure the Converter to point to this file (along with any other command line options you see fit).

HTH,
RS

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Bajunid on 2007-02-19 14:57:29

Thanks a lot RS,

That saved me a lot of time and effort.

Thanks again.

FYI,

I've already have APE component and I'm downloading the new FLAC 1.1.4.

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: scthom on 2007-02-20 05:02:45

Technically speaking, it's not a direct conversion, in that fb2k still expands the ape to wav and feeds it to the flac encoder. It just never hits the hard drive as wav.

A direct conversion would be feeding the ape directly to flac encoder without wav in between.

You probably knew that, and the result is the same.

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Zane on 2007-02-20 07:17:13

Quote from: Bajunid on 2007-02-19 14:14:46

I have several cue+ape files that I want to transcode or re-encode it to FLAC as I just got a new hardware that support FLAC.

FYI... dBpowerAMP also converts .ape to .flac. Quick and painless.

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Bajunid on 2007-02-20 13:07:22

@ scthom

Thank for the info..Now I can finally uninstall that Monkeys Audio converter....never really liked it...with the monkeys and all...

@Zane

I never tried dbpoweramp....don't really have the 'dough' to spend...

Thank you very much for the info guys.... I'm really learning a lot from this forum...

Thank you.

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: Eli on 2007-02-20 15:19:07

The file converter part of dbpoweramp is free

Title: From APE to FLAC, can I do it directly?
Post by: z-x on 2007-03-17 11:53:47

And what about Easy CD-DA Extractor. Is it the same as in Foobar?

HydrogenAudio

Lossless Audio Compression => FLAC => Topic started by: Bajunid on 2007-02-19 14:14:46