handling .ape (monkey audio) files

2003-02-18 18:21:03

I dloaded some .ape files, they do not bear tags and are nominated as track1, 2, and so on.

If I decompress the files, and burn them to a cd, EAC recognizes the disk and retrieves track names, while I cannot us wav files on the disk to retrieve track names.

Do you know o any way to retrieve track names starting from a set of wav files which corresponds perfectly to a cd-rom.

A workaround would be to use the demon tools, but I just wonder if someone ever made an application to handle wav files on disk which correspond to the content of a cd without having the cd or a simulation of if.

Thank you for your attention...

PS, another question: can you encode straight from ape to mp3 with LAME?

handling .ape (monkey audio) files

Reply #1 – 2003-02-18 21:48:44

>PS, another question: can you encode straight from ape to mp3 with LAME?

dBpowerAMP Music Converter can with the Monkeys Audio Codec.

handling .ape (monkey audio) files

Reply #2 – 2003-02-19 00:29:05

@ wiren's PS

Yes.  If you use the modified version of mac.exe that supports standard in and standard out; the data can be piped from the ape file into the lame encoder without writing a wav file in between.  Check here to find links to all the tools you'll need:

Speek's Multi frontend:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/multi.htm

handling .ape (monkey audio) files

Reply #3 – 2003-02-19 14:11:55

Wonderful. I have to say I prefer the second one, for I can use lame with --alt preset standard option.

Still, I have no idea about how using a freecddb database to recognize track names without having to burn them to disk. I am triyng the demon tools but writing an image of the disk is slow... How came noone released an utility to use a cddb with a group of tracks corresponding exactly to a cd-rom?

THanks.