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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: cleantone on March 29, 2006, 02:00:41 PM
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Hey!
I have never messed with .ape formats. I just got some Slip that were archived as .ape. The text file makes it look as if it is 24bit 48khz. On my mac I tried xACT 1.56 to decode and got:
Error decoding: Slip02-10-18iipt2.ape:
Error: 1002: invalid input file
any alternative programs to try? Any ideas?
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www.monkeysaudio.com - not sure if it works on a mac.
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Doesn't seem to. I was under the impression xACT used the codec from that software. Maybe these files are bad for some reason.
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it has been my experience, that, in any given fileset, at least one .ape file is bad. i seriously had to trash a few shows because tracks would not decode. sucks because, back before there was a flac, we APEd all our 24/48 shows. could very well be that the source files were bad, or it could be that your copies are just bad...
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maybe the file was encoded with the beta v4 of monkey's audio?
i hate .ape. like cooker, i always got files that wouldn't decode. i'd encode a full show and later find that 2 or 3 wouldn't decode. fun
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Okay. These files were seemingly made in October of 2002. There were 2 folders, one for one show and one for the next night. On a PC I just got the first show to decode to WAV adn then re-encode to FLAC. They are a little bigger than the .ape files. This was with Monkey Audio for XP. On the Mac with xACT 1.56 It gave me that error. I have never used .ape so for the hell of it I decoded a small FLAC to aiff, tried to encode it to .ape and it gave me a shntool error code. Maybe the new xACT has an .ape bug somehow? What do you think Scott?
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if it was 02, then it's definitely not a new version
i think xACT might only encode wav to ape...i forget if i have aiff > ape in there
what version of os x are you on?
i can play around with ape file tonight to see if things are working..but i haven't touched the ape support in a long time
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The WAV only thing dawned on me right after posting. I'm on OSX.3.9.
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just tried flac>wav>ape and got:
Track01.wav: sh: line 1: shninfo: command not found
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i wonder if dbpoweramp would work.
i dunno if it works on mac tho, but i know in the past i've went ape > flac with it in one simple step.
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The WAV only thing dawned on me right after posting. I'm on OSX.3.9.
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just tried flac>wav>ape and got:
Track01.wav: sh: line 1: shninfo: command not found
that's a dumb error on my part for encoding. i forgot i removed the shninfo shortcut from the app. but it doesn't affect decoding at all
as for why those files don't decode, i'm still not sure. do they verify?
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do they verify?
There was no MD5 included. I don't know if .ape has some internal verification. I had never dealt with them before. I can say that I finally put Monkey Audio on the PC and decoded them 100%. So I assume they were fine. The only thing I didn't try was downloading an older version of xACT to try. I found posts online stating that xACT worked but they were older versions. Nothing jumped out at you huh? Thanks yet again for a wonderful audio tool.
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monkey's audio files verify internally. no md5 needed
if the files are from 2002, theywere encoded with monkey's audio 3.97, which should definitely work with xACT. but if it was with a newer version, i can't guarantee xACT would work
since a lot of people seemed to have problems decoding ape files a few years back (i lost a few 24/48 files from a trey show in june 02), i wonder if it was just a bug in monkey's audio that's since been fixed, and that's why the newer windows versions can decode these older files with no problems
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since a lot of people seemed to have problems decoding ape files a few years back (i lost a few 24/48 files from a trey show in june 02), i wonder if it was just a bug in monkey's audio that's since been fixed, and that's why the newer windows versions can decode these older files with no problems
doh! now i wish i would have saved those "bad" filesets. One was 2002 panic one was 2001 biscuits, both 24/48, both only 24 bit sources from that show (that tour?)