Become a Site Supporter and Never see Ads again!

Author Topic: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac  (Read 2325 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline gormenghast

  • Trade Count: (44)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 833
  • Gender: Male
.ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« on: January 19, 2022, 11:46:32 PM »
I'm going through some of my early 24bit recordings and many are in .ape format.  I don't see the original wavs anywhere.  What is the best way to convert these files to wav or Flac?

Thank you.
A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Offline vanark

  • TDS
  • Site Supporter
  • Trade Count: (29)
  • Needs to get out more...
  • *
  • Posts: 8510
  • If you ain't right, you better get right!
    • The Mudboy Grotto - North Mississippi Allstar fan site
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2022, 07:17:18 AM »
Pretty sure xACT works.

http://xact.scottcbrown.org/
If you have a problem relating to the Live Music Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/etree) please send an e-mail to us admins at LMA(AT)archive(DOT)org or post in the LMA thread here and we'll get on it.

Link to LMA Recordings

Link to Team Dirty South Recordings on the LMA

Mics: Microtech Gefell M21 (with Nbob actives) | Church Audio CA-11 (cards) (with CA UBB)
Pres: babynbox
Recorders: Tascam DR-60D | Tascam DR-40 | Sony PCM-A10 | Edirol R-4

Offline relefunt

  • Trade Count: (10)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 276
  • Gender: Male
  • kindfulness
    • Milwaukee Taper
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2022, 05:02:09 AM »
xAct is the best. So powerful and easy to use.
AKG c414xls, Beyerdynamic MC930, Line Audio CM3 and OM1. Superluxe S502mk2
Sneaky: Church CA11+14, Audiotechnica AT853.
Preamps: Shure FP24, CA9200.
Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6, Roland R05, Sony M10.
my local taping blog: milwaukeetaper.com

Offline gormenghast

  • Trade Count: (44)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 833
  • Gender: Male
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2022, 12:13:00 PM »
When I loaded a whole show of tracked ape files they didn't convert to wav and I had over 15 windows to close. 

I use xact a lot for converting CDs to Flac.
A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Offline relefunt

  • Trade Count: (10)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 276
  • Gender: Male
  • kindfulness
    • Milwaukee Taper
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2022, 04:15:09 PM »
Very strange —

I just checked a minute ago and was able to convert .ape to FLAC using xAct, no issue whatsoever — I am using xAct version 2.50. I didn’t try to convert to WAV first, just straight ape to flac.
AKG c414xls, Beyerdynamic MC930, Line Audio CM3 and OM1. Superluxe S502mk2
Sneaky: Church CA11+14, Audiotechnica AT853.
Preamps: Shure FP24, CA9200.
Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6, Roland R05, Sony M10.
my local taping blog: milwaukeetaper.com

Offline gormenghast

  • Trade Count: (44)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 833
  • Gender: Male
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2022, 11:44:06 AM »
Very strange —

I just checked a minute ago and was able to convert .ape to FLAC using xAct, no issue whatsoever — I am using xAct version 2.50. I didn’t try to convert to WAV first, just straight ape to flac.

Thanks for trying.  I’ll test one file too to flac not wav. 
A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Offline gormenghast

  • Trade Count: (44)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 833
  • Gender: Male
Re: .ape to wav or Flac--What To Use On A Mac
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2022, 12:51:57 PM »
I was able to convert one of my own ape file to Flac but this one from Dan Heend I couldn't:

shntool [conv]: warning: failed to read data from input file using format: [ape]
shntool [conv]:          + you may not have permission to read file: [/Volumes/Ultra 2TB/sci2001-10-31--4v's Heend 24:48-apes/SCI-20011031-Set1-T1.ape]
shntool [conv]:          + arguments may be incorrect for decoder: [mac]
shntool [conv]:          + verify that the decoder is installed and in your PATH
shntool [conv]:          + this file may be unsupported, truncated or corrupt

It wasn't just the one file but the whole folder of Heend's 24bit recording of SCI 10-31-2001.

My ape file is on the same drive in the same folder.

A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

 

RSS | Mobile
Page created in 0.076 seconds with 36 queries.
© 2002-2024 Taperssection.com
Powered by SMF