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jacek_migacz
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: monkey audio (.ape) running and conversion HOW-TO |
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1. installing conversion tool ape2mp3:
go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/ and leech mac
| Code: | tar -xf mac-*-*-*.tar.gz
./configure
make && make install |
and our conversion works!
sample: | Code: | | mac in.ape out.wav -d |
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2. just playing .ape files in xmms player
go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/ and leech xmms-mac
| Code: | tar -xf xmms-mac-*.tar.gz
./configure
make && make install |
restart xmms and feel free to listen to ape crap! ;) |
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carbonti
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the heads up on this. Works very well.
I originally wanted to enable only the xmms-mac-0.3.1 codec for xmms playback but it needed mac-3.99 to complile. So do both. Good stuff. |
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Marctraider
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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thanks, I prefer just FLAC files or good quality mp3 files so i will convert the wav's to flacs  after this is done 
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: |
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There's an ebuild for mac-3.99 btw. You can get it here, thanks to gimpel.
And since I'm an extremely lazy person... and mac doesn't seem to be able to do batch converting... I wrote a (very nasty-but-working) script to convert *.ape to *.mp3. Now... if you people can make the script better, nicer, leaner... then by all means do so. I'd apreciate it if any fixes would be posted here  . If ape files contain tags, then be aware they get lost during the conversion with this script.
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
#My first ever attempt at scripting something. The result is perfect for me.
#I'm NOT the one to blame if this wipes out your hdd or breaks your CPU. You've
#been warned. Other than that... I realise it's not a good script. It needs
#tweaking or even better: a complete rewrite. But as stated before - it works
#for me. It spews out some trivial errors.
#
#Pithy
[ ! -d "$1" ] && echo "usage: ape2mp3 <apedir>" && exit
#Set the OUTDIR to where you want your intermediate wav files to end up
OUTDIR="/home/media/Music/$(basename "$1")"
[ ! -d "$OUTDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
#Set the OUTDIR2 to where you want your final mp3 files to end up
OUTDIR2="/home/media/Music/128/$(basename "$1")"
[ ! -d "$OUTDIR2" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR2"
cd "$1" || exit
echo OUTDIR: $OUTDIR
find -depth -print0 | while read -d $'\0' filename;
do
filename="${filename##*/}"
mac "${filename}" "$OUTDIR/${filename}" -d
done
cd "$OUTDIR"
for e in *.ape
do
mv "$e" "`echo $e | sed 's/\(.*\.\)ape/\1wav/'`"
done
echo OUTDIR2: $OUTDIR2
find -depth -print0 | while read -d $'\0' filename;
do
filename="${filename##*/}"
#Set the lame options to your liking. The optins here will result in
#a decent 128kbps mp3. Good enough for your regular mp3 player.
lame -h "${filename}" "$OUTDIR2/${filename}"
done
cd "$OUTDIR2"
for i in *.wav
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/\(.*\.\)wav/\1mp3/'`"
done
#Uncomment the following line if you want to remove the folder with your wav
#files. I like to keep it. You know... better safe than sorry. And I just might
#decide to burn me an audio CD.
#The script will probably complain about missing folders. Ignore it.
#rm -r "$OUTDIR"
echo "conversion finished"
cd "$OLDPWD" |
P.S. I can't code shit (in any language) so go easy on me.
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Marctraider
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| Pithlit wrote: | There's an ebuild for mac-3.99 btw. You can get it here, thanks to gimpel.
And since I'm an extremely lazy person... and mac doesn't seem to be able to do batch converting... I wrote a (very nasty-but-working) script to convert *.ape to *.mp3. Now... if you people can make the script better, nicer, leaner... then by all means do so. I'd apreciate it if any fixes would be posted here . If ape files contain tags, then be aware they get lost during the conversion with this script.
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
#My first ever attempt at scripting something. The result is perfect for me.
#I'm NOT the one to blame if this wipes out your hdd or breaks your CPU. You've
#been warned. Other than that... I realise it's not a good script. It needs
#tweaking or even better: a complete rewrite. But as stated before - it works
#for me. It spews out some trivial errors.
#
#Pithy
[ ! -d "$1" ] && echo "usage: ape2mp3 <apedir>" && exit
#Set the OUTDIR to where you want your intermediate wav files to end up
OUTDIR="/home/media/Music/$(basename "$1")"
[ ! -d "$OUTDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
#Set the OUTDIR2 to where you want your final mp3 files to end up
OUTDIR2="/home/media/Music/128/$(basename "$1")"
[ ! -d "$OUTDIR2" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR2"
cd "$1" || exit
echo OUTDIR: $OUTDIR
find -depth -print0 | while read -d $'\0' filename;
do
filename="${filename##*/}"
mac "${filename}" "$OUTDIR/${filename}" -d
done
cd "$OUTDIR"
for e in *.ape
do
mv "$e" "`echo $e | sed 's/\(.*\.\)ape/\1wav/'`"
done
echo OUTDIR2: $OUTDIR2
find -depth -print0 | while read -d $'\0' filename;
do
filename="${filename##*/}"
#Set the lame options to your liking. The optins here will result in
#a decent 128kbps mp3. Good enough for your regular mp3 player.
lame -h "${filename}" "$OUTDIR2/${filename}"
done
cd "$OUTDIR2"
for i in *.wav
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/\(.*\.\)wav/\1mp3/'`"
done
#Uncomment the following line if you want to remove the folder with your wav
#files. I like to keep it. You know... better safe than sorry. And I just might
#decide to burn me an audio CD.
#The script will probably complain about missing folders. Ignore it.
#rm -r "$OUTDIR"
echo "conversion finished"
cd "$OLDPWD" |
P.S. I can't code shit (in any language) so go easy on me. |
Boy, everyone has his or her's talents, you are doing a fine job, who cares about how its written
as long as it works!
My work would most probably be even more garbish at the moment 
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gimpel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| Pithlit wrote: | | There's an ebuild for mac-3.99 btw. You can get it here, thanks to gimpel. |
humm, lokal server is off atm. look here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94477
Pithlit: nice script! may i post that on the howto page?
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Sure gimpel. I've been pinging you for the past 2 days on #get-e for that 
Thanks Marctraider.
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boudewijn
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Hi
I cant compile the mac-stuff 
| Code: |
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Console/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Shared/Makefile
config.status: creating src/MACLib/Makefile
config.status: creating src/MACLib/Assembly/Makefile
config.status: creating src/MACLib/Old/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Examples/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Examples/Analyze/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Examples/Analyze/Sample1/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Shared/config.h
config.status: src/Shared/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
Build options:
mac 3.99-u4-b4
enable-backward no
Checking status:
1: No NASM found, you need NASM to compile the asm source in *x86* arch.
nasm: /usr/bin/nasm /usr/X11R6/bin/nasm /usr/bin/X11/nasm /usr/man/man1/nasm.1 /usr/share/man/man1/nasm.1.gz
/usr/bin/:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.4:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/opt/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/
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Nasm has been installed by portage, but configure can't find it.
Also just did manual install but that one can't be found to.
Tried this too:
./configure ac_cv_path_NASM=/usr/bin
Didn't work either.
Anyone knows how to tackle this?
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purevirtual
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I've had the same problem with NASM and think it's related to AMD64.
But
| Code: | linux32 ./configure
linux32 ./make |
worked for me. At least mac compiled without issues.
But whenever I try to decompress or verify an ape file, mac segfaults  |
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boudewijn
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| purevirtual wrote: | I've had the same problem with NASM and think it's related to AMD64.
But
| Code: | linux32 ./configure
linux32 ./make |
worked for me. At least mac compiled without issues.
But whenever I try to decompress or verify an ape file, mac segfaults |
damn
almost all music on the web is flac (which works usually) or ape
ape sucks (nothing illegal by the way: i just download music I already have on vinyl records, and I'm to lazy to record about 1000 records  )
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purevirtual
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll try to compile ape on my 32-bit machine. Maybe we can create some kind of ape-bin package for AMD64. |
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boudewijn
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| purevirtual wrote: | | I'll try to compile ape on my 32-bit machine. Maybe we can create some kind of ape-bin package for AMD64. |
very nice plan.
Do you have Jabber\ICQ\M$N?
boudewijnector@jabber.xs4all.nl , boudewijnector@hotmail.com
Let's discuss it
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purevirtual
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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Ok, for anybody who wants to build mac on AMD64:
- the NASM warning issued by configure can be ignored
- there's a patch available resolving the segfaults:
http://www.oook.cz/bsd/patch-mac-pointercasting |
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dpetka2001
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| one question...if i use this conversion tool what would be the quality of the .mp3 files?? i mean the bitrate...can i define the bitrate of the conversed mp3 files?? or should i convert them to .wav first and then to .mp3 using lame encoder?? thanks... |
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dpetka2001
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| anyone care to answer to my question?? thanks... |
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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If you are using the Pithlit script you can change the bit rate in the following line:
| Code: | | lame -h "${filename}" "$OUTDIR2/${filename}" |
using the help file from lame:
| Code: | LAME version 3.96.1 (http://lame.sourceforge.net/)
usage: lame [options] <infile> [outfile]
<infile> and/or <outfile> can be "-", which means stdin/stdout.
RECOMMENDED:
lame -h input.wav output.mp3
OPTIONS:
-b bitrate set the bitrate, default 128 kbps
-f fast mode (lower quality)
-h higher quality, but a little slower. Recommended.
-m mode (s)tereo, (j)oint, (m)ono
default is (j) or (s) depending on bitrate
-V n quality setting for VBR. default n=4
--preset type type must be "medium", "standard", "extreme", "insane",
or a value for an average desired bitrate and depending
on the value specified, appropriate quality settings will
be used.
"--preset help" gives more info on these
--longhelp full list of options
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I have a question for Pithlit if he is still about or any one that is good with bash.
I want to convert the whole of my APE collect to mp3 in one command.
The folder/file structure is as
TOP LEVEL ->ARTIST ->Albums
The Pithlit Script will only afsak look at one folder at a time.
Would it be possible to change this script to recusively go through the whole folder structure and convert all ape files with in and replicate the folder structre for the converted mp3's? |
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Would it be possible... yes. But right now I don't have time to learn how (I'm no good at scripting - as said somewhere above  .). AFAIK all it takes is something like "find *.ape && for *.ape convert". As for how... I'm clueless right now. Maybe in a month or so.
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Incabulos
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I want to convert the whole of my APE collect to mp3 in one command.
The folder/file structure is as
TOP LEVEL ->ARTIST ->Albums |
Dont know a nice bashy way of doing it, but if you are familar with using find I would try something along the lines of:
| Code: | find . -type f -name *.ape -print -exec mac {} -d | lame - {}.mp3 -otherencodingopts \;
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Assuming that you want to run mac to convert it to uncompressed PCM audio/wav then feed this to mp3 encoder of choice via STDIN. It will recurse all subdirs and create the .mp3s in the same directory that the .ape files are currently in.
Your output filenames will be a bit broken too - track.ape.mp3 is how the mp3 of track.ape will look. But I'm not pretending to be a coder either
I've just discovered the mac tool today, I'm loving that I can convert this idiot format to .oggs rather than having to use some old and busted xmms plugin to play them in their native format. |
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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I went out and learnt BASH so I could do a full conversion of all of my ape files into mp3 and mirror the directory structure.
Here is my script
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lossless2lossy/
Let me know if you find any bugs or have any requests. |
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gimpel
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Nuisance-Value wrote: | I went out and learnt BASH so I could do a full conversion of all of my ape files into mp3 and mirror the directory structure.
Here is my script
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lossless2lossy/
Let me know if you find any bugs or have any requests. |
cool! linked
support for .ape files with .cue sheets would be cool. If there is .ape & .cue, convert to mp3, and afterwards use mp3splt to split and tag it.
Oh, and of course ogg support
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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OK I'll have a look.
I really want to add reading ape v1 and v2 and then writting them to the idv3 mp3 tag. But as yet I haven't found a way of getting the info of the ape file.
If any one knows of a linux command line app or manual way or reading it let me know.
Adding OGG support would be easy. I'll look into that straight away... |
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Weee... yeah.. ogg is easy, so should be the splitting thing. And after that... we'd need to find someone to write us a nice fancy GUI. 
Ape has tags?
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:08 am Post subject: |
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I was thinking of adding a gui once the script has finished. Something new to learn
I was also thinking about adding flac too, and wavpack.
Yeah ape has tags |
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Nuisance-Value
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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I've all but added ogg support now, I just need to know the usual options for it. I don't use ogg myself...
I've so far add what is equilivilent to VBR with settings running from 0 (low) to 10 (hight)
What else do I need to add? |
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