The default apsaravideo player Rhythmbox in Ubuntu does not support the APE format by default, because the APE format is copyrighted, And the Flac format is open, and it is not worse or better than the APE format. Therefore, in Linux, Flac is the preferred music format. However, due to historical reasons, the downloaded CD songs are often in APE format. The following describes how to convert APE into Flac and record it for future reference. First install APE/Flac support package, google to mac-3.99-u4_b3-1_i386.deb this package can support
The default apsaravideo player Rhythmbox in Ubuntu does not support the APE format by default, because the APE format is copyrighted, And the Flac format is open, and it is not worse or better than the APE format. Therefore, in Linux, Flac is the preferred music format. However, due to historical reasons, the downloaded CD songs are often in APE format. The following describes how to convert APE into Flac and record it for future reference.
First install APE/Flac support package, google to mac-3.99-u4_b3-1_i386.deb this package can support APE, and then install the Conversion Tool shntool
Sudo dpkg-I mac-3.99-u4_b3-1_i386.deb
Sudo apt-get install flac
Sudo apt-get install shntool
Generally, the downloaded APE file is a. ape file that is paired with a. cue file, and the CD audio track information is saved in the cue file. The conversion method is the following command:
Shntool split-f image. cue-t '% n. % t'-o flac image. ape
That is, the music file in flac format is obtained and divided into one file for each song according to the cue file information.