.APE files

[Jamon Camisso]

On 13-12-11 01:25 AM, 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.

I stopped trying to play APE files a long time ago and recode them all
to FLAC. The compression savings of APE is not worth the hassle. Most
players will support a .cue along with a .flac and will allow you to
view tags and skip around based on the .cue contents.

Cheers, Jamon

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