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MonkeyAudio (*.ape) playing and Ape-Tag editing
Any classical music lover uses the lossless APE-format for their digital recordings and it is widespread in use(!)
It's time to integrate MonkeyAudio into Songbird along with the editing of ape-tags (much like mp3tags).
For Winamp, there is a ape-plugin, xplayer and others support ape too, but Songbird not yet. If there would be an add-on or a core feature for playing and editing metadata of ape-files, Songbird would become the best audioplayer around.
It's time to integrate MonkeyAudio into Songbird along with the editing of ape-tags (much like mp3tags).
For Winamp, there is a ape-plugin, xplayer and others support ape too, but Songbird not yet. If there would be an add-on or a core feature for playing and editing metadata of ape-files, Songbird would become the best audioplayer around.
I’m confident that someone will vote for this feature. its needed!!!!
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion Binford 2000, you're on the right track. Feel free to log your idea in Bugzilla to gain more visibility and hopefully VOTES. You can use our Feature Suggestion form.
I’m ape for .ape
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Inappropriate?G'day,
Actually, at this point of time many APE users have migrated to FLAC. Ape has a lot of legal issues (and its closed source I think) which has prevented pretty much everyone supporting them. Whilst lossless media players which support FLAC exist, never seen any portable media players which support APE.
So, any chance you have considered migrating to FLAC? Flac supports 96khz, is much better supported, and uses open standards. So you are actually better off in the future using it.
Andrew
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Inappropriate?found a nice GUI tool on osx for convert ape 2 flac . check Max 0.8.1 http://sbooth.org/Max/#download it's nice and all-in-one tool to let you batch convert ape into flac. -
Inappropriate?By the way, I'm not forcing anyone to change standards.
But just saying that barely anything supports Monkey audio, whilst almost every player now besides itunes supports FLAC. In fact, even the cheap Sansa players (the Sansa Clip for instance) support FLAC.
Since APE files I think use a different tagging system too, there are weird compatibility problems all over. I have never checked, but one would think that the compression ratio for FLAC is similar to APE too.
Monkey audio just simply doesn't seem to have any real benefits over flac.
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Inappropriate?everyone could stay what they like most. It's free to choice for sure. Ape interoperate problem bother me for long time, especially I just want to listen and *enjoy* music but feel frustrate with ape format on different platform. In a addition, there is a ape osx player name "cog" play my ape well.
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