Need some application help

phzoinkMKII · 12-28-2007, 05:57 PM

How do I open APE files? I downloaded a bunch music and now I can't open them because nothing in my system can open them due to beind in APE format.

phzoinkMKII · 12-29-2007, 05:34 PM

I found a solution to the problem. After much time spent searching the internet I found a winamp type plug in that decompresses APE files into MP3's. Monkey's Audio - a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor very much a life saver.

TheAmazingDave · 12-30-2007, 03:52 AM

awesome

Ghost Ridah · 01-03-2008, 03:13 PM

That's quite strange. What bitrate were they at after you decompressed them? I haven't seen that format for MP3 files yet.

phzoinkMKII · 01-03-2008, 09:04 PM

Well according to winamp the KBPS are 1411. The tracks themselves are like 43 megs for a 4 min song though. I don't think I like APE files very much. The entire album, titled Ayumi Hamasaki - Cyber Trance Presents Ayu Trance, is about 571 megs which is rather large.

PearlJammzz · 01-04-2008, 01:39 PM

Sounds liek some shotty loseless format, or some format that is used in editing or sumthing...lemme google it:

Looks like it's just another loseless audio codec, which from the sounds of things is inferior to FLAC.

phzoinkMKII · 01-04-2008, 05:49 PM

There really is nothing special about it. Just a pain in the ass when you download them and need to compress them.

Ghost Ridah · 01-09-2008, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PearlJammzz

Sounds liek some shotty loseless format, or some format that is used in editing or sumthing...lemme google it:

Looks like it's just another loseless audio codec, which from the sounds of things is inferior to FLAC.

That was my guess. Good to see I was right. 571 meg for a single album is insane. Not to talk about my other topic in here already, but that album would have been on Oink in a much better format

12-28-2007, 05:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
phzoinkMKII Fight to the last Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: I need a change Posts: 1,244 Thanks: 4 Thanked 35 Times in 30 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	Need some application help How do I open APE files? I downloaded a bunch music and now I can't open them because nothing in my system can open them due to beind in APE format.

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12-29-2007, 05:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
phzoinkMKII Fight to the last Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: I need a change Posts: 1,244 Thanks: 4 Thanked 35 Times in 30 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	I found a solution to the problem. After much time spent searching the internet I found a winamp type plug in that decompresses APE files into MP3's. Monkey's Audio - a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor very much a life saver.

12-30-2007, 03:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
TheAmazingDave Cage Fighter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,112 Thanks: 14 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (0/0% )	awesome

01-03-2008, 03:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ghost Ridah The Diet Coke of Skills Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 4 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts iTrader Rating: (0/0% )	That's quite strange. What bitrate were they at after you decompressed them? I haven't seen that format for MP3 files yet.

01-03-2008, 09:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
phzoinkMKII Fight to the last Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: I need a change Posts: 1,244 Thanks: 4 Thanked 35 Times in 30 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	Well according to winamp the KBPS are 1411. The tracks themselves are like 43 megs for a 4 min song though. I don't think I like APE files very much. The entire album, titled Ayumi Hamasaki - Cyber Trance Presents Ayu Trance, is about 571 megs which is rather large.

01-04-2008, 01:39 PM	#6 (permalink)
PearlJammzz Cage Fighter Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,154 Thanks: 9 Thanked 72 Times in 67 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (7/100% )	Sounds liek some shotty loseless format, or some format that is used in editing or sumthing...lemme google it: Looks like it's just another loseless audio codec, which from the sounds of things is inferior to FLAC.

01-04-2008, 05:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
phzoinkMKII Fight to the last Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: I need a change Posts: 1,244 Thanks: 4 Thanked 35 Times in 30 Posts My Google Map iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	There really is nothing special about it. Just a pain in the ass when you download them and need to compress them.