.APE files

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 06:25:51AM +0000, Bill Henderson wrote:
> Assuming that Audacious and Amarok either hang up or crash out or
> otherwise refuse to perform, is there any alternative to using G
> Mplayer to play .APEs?
> 
> Looking for something that displays the current item name within the
> ape file and GMplayer just keeps scrollinbg the ape filename
> notwithstanding it plays the, in my case operas, just fine.
> 
> It would be nice not to have to keep the text contents file open and
> do the arithmetic based on running trimes to determine what is
> playing if I don't recognize the particular piece.
> 
> Slack 14.0 64 bit

lennartsorensen at lennartsorensen:~/Download$ mplayer luckynight.ape 
MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Cannot open file '/home/lennartsorensen/.mplayer2/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /home/lennartsorensen/.mplayer2/input.conf.
Cannot open file '/etc/mplayer2/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /etc/mplayer2/input.conf.

Playing luckynight.ape.
Detected file format: Monkey's Audio (libavformat)
[lavf] stream 0: audio (ape), -aid 0
Clip info:
 Track: 9
 Year: 1995
 Genre: Soundtrack
 Title: Lucky Night
 Artist: Jody Marie Gnant
 Album: Treasure Quest Soundtrack
 Comment: 1-minute song sample demonstrating Monkey's Audio .ape compression
Load subtitles in .
Selected audio codec: Monkey's Audio [libavcodec]
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->176400)
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  60.4 (01:00.3) of 60.4 (01:00.3)  2.5% 
[ape @ 0xaefcc0]packet size is not a multiple of 4. extra bytes at the end will be skipped.
A:  61.8 (01:01.8) of 60.4 (01:00.3)  2.5% 

So mplayer at least plays the file for me.  So does mplayer2, vlc,
and totem.  I couldn't think of any others to try.

Now as for who handles the special tag info, no idea.  I don't have any
files to test with.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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