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Title: .ape>FLAC?
Post by: gormenghast on October 16, 2015, 02:38:56 PM

Any way to convert .ape files to FLAC?  If so, what is the best way?  Finally found my one of a few 24 bit recordings I did back in early 2000.

String Cheese Incident
Gorge Amphitheatre
George, WA.
05-25-02

Recording/Ape'ing Info:

Taping Section--5 feet left of center--Schoeps CMC64>Grace Design Lunatec V2 +35>Benchmark AD2K+ 24bit/48kHz>Digigram VXPocketV2>Sony PCG GR250 ( Windows XPHome )>Sonic Foundry Vegas Audio 2.0h ( Record, Split--Render *.w64 to *.wav )>Monkey's Audio 3.94>*.ape ( 3cds )

Title: Re: .ape>FLAC?
Post by: voltronic on October 16, 2015, 03:12:40 PM

Foobar 2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) with the Monkey's Audio (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_monkey) decoder.

Title: Re: .ape>FLAC?
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on October 16, 2015, 03:25:15 PM

TLH should be able to handle APE files...

Terry

Title: Re: .ape>FLAC?
Post by: gormenghast on October 16, 2015, 08:34:02 PM

Well, it seems I have xAct on my Mac.  I was able to convert the ape file to wav.  The recording sounds great!  hehehe...

If I were to upload the recording after I converted it to flac, are there some file that must be attached to the whole upload? 

I haven't uploaded anything since the shn days--converted a bunch of dats of Zero for Dr Bob back then.

Title: Re: .ape>FLAC?
Post by: H₂O on October 16, 2015, 08:51:32 PM

xACT on the MAC


I wrote a perl script to do this 12 years ago - it would preserve tags thankfully - I still have it somewhere you would need both tag.exe, the monkey's audio exe, and flac.exe (may need to be modded to work with modern versions/equivalents)