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?
www.monkeysaudio.com - not sure if it works on a mac.
Doesn't seem to. I was under the impression xACT used the codec from that software. Maybe these files are bad for some reason.
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...
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
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?
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
The WAV only thing dawned on me right after posting. I'm on OSX.3.9.
edit:
just tried flac>wav>ape and got:
Track01.wav: sh: line 1: shninfo: command not found
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.
Quote from: cleantone on March 29, 2006, 03:21:17 PM
The WAV only thing dawned on me right after posting. I'm on OSX.3.9.
edit:
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?
Quotedo 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.
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
Quote from: scott brown on March 30, 2006, 11:59:48 AM
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?)