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Sthu Deus

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Aug 7, 2009, 1:10:10 PM8/7/09
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Good day.

I have a mac program that decompresses .ape files. But with a number of .ape
files the program crashes and I see that it is no longer supported as the last
version was of year 2007.

Can You recommend an utility that can decompress .ape files to .wav
or .flac beside the mac one?

Thank You for Your time.


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Gilles Mocellin

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Aug 7, 2009, 1:50:16 PM8/7/09
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:43:03PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I have a mac program that decompresses .ape files. But with a number of .ape
> files the program crashes and I see that it is no longer supported as the last
> version was of year 2007.
>
> Can You recommend an utility that can decompress .ape files to .wav
> or .flac beside the mac one?
>
> Thank You for Your time.

You can decompress Monkey Audio files with maclinux.
You can find informations here :
http://aidanjm.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/using-monkeys-audio-ape-files-in-ubuntu/

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Teemu Likonen

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Aug 7, 2009, 2:00:10 PM8/7/09
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On 2009-08-07 17:43 (+0700), Sthu Deus wrote:

> I have a mac program that decompresses .ape files. But with a number
> of .ape files the program crashes and I see that it is no longer
> supported as the last version was of year 2007.
>
> Can You recommend an utility that can decompress .ape files to .wav or
> .flac beside the mac one?

I have never used this myself but debian-multimedia repository [1] has
monkeys-audio package which should do what you want. Package's
description:

Monkey's Audio is a highly efficient and popular lossless audio
codec.

It is a tuned compressor for audio, like mp3, ogg, etc - but
"lossless" in that it does not completely discard information, and
performs more of a "zipping" that can be reversed at any time and
generate the original source audio file (hence "lossless" vs
"lossy").

Features:
* Efficient (fast and great compression)
* Perfect sound - absolutely no quality loss
* Incorporates redundant CRC's to ensure proper decompression of
data
* Tagging support - extremely flexible APE Tags

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1. http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

Sthu Deus

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Aug 7, 2009, 3:10:09 PM8/7/09
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Thank You for Your time and answer, Teemu:

> I have never used this myself but debian-multimedia repository [1] has
> monkeys-audio package which should do what you want.

mac program - of which I have spoken is of the package.

Sthu Deus

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Aug 7, 2009, 3:20:15 PM8/7/09
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Thank You for Your time and answer, Gilles:

> You can decompress Monkey Audio files with maclinux.
> You can find informations here :
> http://aidanjm.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/using-monkeys-audio-ape-files-in-ubuntu/

Mac is the program from the package. If You did mean that.

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