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douwen 2008-11-26 07:20

which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
i have a lot of music file are APE/CUE format, is there a music player could play them?

jabawok 2008-11-26 16:03

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
I would convert the ape to flac format, there is zero quality loss. I use mplayer to play my flacs, admittedly from the command line. I'm assuming there's a gui frontend for mplayer (for audio files) on maemo, I just haven't bothered finding it yet. Mplayer also has a 10-band eq, which can be handy.

Alternatively, you could convert to ogg format with some small quality loss, and use the default media player, with ogg-support installed..

There are also tools for splitting your large audio file into separate tracks using the cue file for split points. Google's your friend...

ace 2008-11-26 16:09

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by douwen (Post 244717)
i have a lot of music file are APE/CUE format, is there a music player could play them?

Not that I know of.

ace 2008-11-26 16:10

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jabawok (Post 244789)
I would convert the ape to flac format, there is zero quality loss...

That's probably the best course of action. The FLAC files will be slightly larger, but they'll take less CPU to decode.

soap 2008-12-02 00:25

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ace (Post 244793)
The FLAC files will be slightly larger, but they'll take less CPU to decode.

And when he says "less" he means as a shot glass holds less than a bucket.
APE is very CPU (and thus (in this instance) battery) hungry.

Thesandlord 2008-12-02 00:36

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
Yeah, APE is not the best for a mobile device. To much compression can be a band thing. FLAC seems to be more of a standard anyway (IMO, as I am not a audiophile).

allnameswereout 2008-12-02 01:07

Re: which music player could play ape/cue format file?
 
Encode them to MP3 VBR or OGG Vorbis -q3. You'll save diskspace and you'll save battery life at the compromise of something which ~90% of the people are not able to distinguish in a blind test (on top notch equipment) as tested by C'T.


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