Re: [linux-audio-user] The dreaded .ape

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] The dreaded .ape
From: Tim Orford (tim_AT_orford.org)
Date: Sat Oct 18 2003 - 01:03:00 EEST

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:21:38PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> Anyone knows whether there is any way to decode .ape files in Linux? I believe
> there is an xmms plugin lying around somewhere: any other decoder one might
> use?

i was quite surprised to see that the command-line ape decoder seems to
run fine under wine. Mac.exe appears to be selfcontained. I had to
copy this from an MS machine as the Ape installer didnt work.

i'm using this relatively untested script.
Maybe others will find it useful....?

-----------------start:ape2flac.sh------------------

#!/bin/sh
#
# wrapper script for converting multiple ape files to flac.
#
# author: Tim Orford. date: 031015. license: GPL.
#
# notes:
# -any ape meta tags will be lost!
# -filenames with spaces are converted to use underscores instead.
# -you need to copy Mac.exe to the current directory.
#
# todo:
# -i dont know how you pass arguments to wine when they contain spaces.
# -dont know how wine handles paths. Copy Mac.exe to the current
# directory.

#config:
monkeypath="MAC.exe";

# -z == null
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo "usage: ape2flac.sh <filename(s)>"
        exit;
fi;

echo "encoding "$#" files to flac...";

declare -i idx;
idx=1;

#echo "$idx: filename: $filename";

for filename in "$@";
do
        echo "";
        echo $'\033['"01;33m"$idx: $filename$'\033['"0m";

        #remove spaces in filenames:
        newname=${filename// /_};
        if [ $newname != $filename ]; then mv "$filename" $newname; fi;
        filename=$newname;

        #decode ape to wav:
        wine -- $monkeypath "$filename" tmp.wav -d

        #re-encode to flac:
        if flac --best --no-delete-input-file -V "tmp.wav"\
                         -o ${filename%.*}.flac > temp.log 2>&1; then
                echo "flac OK" > /dev/null; #hack
        else
                echo "ERROR: flac failed. Pls see flac.log";
        fi

        # check the log file and look for "Verify OK":
        # -actually we could just check the last line.
        IFS="
"
        for line in `cat temp.log`;
        do
                #echo line=$line;
                if echo "$line" | grep "Verify OK" >/dev/null; then
                        echo " Verified Ok";
                fi
        done
        cat temp.log >> flac.log;
        rm temp.log;

        idx=$idx+1;
        filename=${!idx};

        #remove temp
        if [ -f "tmp.wav" ]; then rm tmp.wav; fi;

done;

echo "";
echo "ape sucks! flac rocks! :-)"

-----------------end:ape2flac.sh------------------

cheers 

-- 
Tim Orford

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