Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, steef a écrit : > hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav > under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan. > > imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree > i know of shntool, lame etc.
There is a Free monkeyaudio (= .ape) decoder in libavcodec/ffmpeg. I was about to says that it was twice slower than the proprietary official decoder, but I just re-did a benchmark and found exactly the same decoding time, so either my memory was wrong or its performance has increased. This decoder was merged in libavcodec last September; current Debian version of libavcodec dates back to last March: you will have ti build your own. Which is advisable anyway, since the Debian version lacks a lot of encoders. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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