I introduction of APE format
APE is a lossless compressed audio format. Huge WAV audio files can be compressed into APE by "slimming" Monkey's audio software. Similarly, APE can also be restored to WAV through monkey's audio, and then burned to CD. Sometimes it is used for network audio file transmission, because the compressed APE file capacity is less than half of the WAV source file, which can save transmission time. More importantly, the WAV file obtained after decompression and restoration of monkey's audio can be exactly the same as the source file before compression. Therefore, APE is called "lossless audio compression format" and Monkey's audio is called "lossless audio compression software". Unlike using professional data compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR to compress audio files, compressed APE audio files can be played directly.
Second, ape players:
1, Foobar2000 (mainly recommended)
Foobar2000 is an audio playback software developed by Peter Pawlowski, the main developer of winamp. Peter Pawlowski left winamp's development team because he was not satisfied with winamp's development direction. Although the Foobar playback interface is simple, it doesn't have many skins like Winamp, which can provide very good sound quality, and it doesn't need an external sound plug-in like DFX like Winamp.
The latest version can be downloaded from official website.
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2、Winamp
Monkey's audio includes Winamp's APE playback plug-in. After loading the monkey's,
In the process of audio, a plug-in "in_APE.dll" will be installed in Winamp, so that Winamp can also play APE files.
3. Windows Media Player
APE can also be played after installing the corresponding plug-in.
Third, format conversion.
1. You can use EAC or other audio acquisition software to convert a CD into a Wav file, and then compress it into an ape through Monkey's audio.
2. You can also directly convert the CD into APE.
3, apes into MP3
APE can be restored to Wav by decompressing the monkey's audio, and then Wav can be directly compressed to Mp3 by the monkey's audio.
Monkey's audio 3.97
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4.APE is directly burned into a CD with a burner.
Download the plug-in named nxMyAPE.dll (below) and copy the file directly to Nero's shared\audioplugins directory, or
C:\ Program File \ General
Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins\, Nero can recognize APE files, and thus can directly burn APE to CD.
Common problems related to apes
1。 How to play audio files in APE format?
Answer: Monkey's audio installation package comes with Winamp's ape plug-in. After installation, you can use Winamp to place Ape.
B with foorbar2000, this recently popular player supports ape format.
2。 Can I choose any music when APEImage is playing?
Yes, but you need a suitable prompt file. Generally speaking, the whole CD is pressed into APE files together with the corresponding cue files.
What is recorded on the surface is information such as the start time of each track of the disc.
You can open this cue file with text editing software, and the content is similar to the following.
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Performer "matthew lien"
Title "Blood Wolf"
File "cdimage.ape" wave
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The following is the corresponding ape file name, which is the same directory by default.
You can add a path, such as "c:\music\cdimage.ape".
You can't make mistakes, otherwise it won't play normally.
Track 0 1 audio
Title "Flying Mouse Creek"
Title "Flying Mouse Creek"
Performer "matthew lien"
Index 0 1 00:00:00
......
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A Foobar can directly import cue files. As long as the information in the prompt is correct, you can select songs and play them.
B. For winamp, I use 2. X, but it seems that you can't import cue directly, but there is a way to solve it. You can do ape.
There is a tool makeapl in the audio of the software monkey (the installer created a shortcut for it in the start menu).
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Cue files can be converted into several corresponding apl files, and each apl corresponds to an audio track, which winamp supports.
Apl, so everything is fine.
C. Install a winamp plug-in named mp3cue to make winamp support cue files.
Note: somehow, I failed to play APEImage with this plug-in. You can try, and it's very successful.
Yes, please tell me the process of X.
3。 How to convert ape into mp3?
In fact, the monkey's audio supports an external codec, which can directly complete ape->; Mp3 conversion
Of course, appropriate settings should be made.
1。 Download lame and copy it to an external directory under the installation directory of monkey (the related links below have foreign rights.
The download address of the lame version recommended by the forum)
2。 Run the monkey's audio and select Convert from the mode menu.
3。 Select external-> In the second button of the toolbar. Crappy-> Configuration, fill in the mp3 to be compressed here.
Parameter, which is recommended.
-alt- preset limit
(The bit rate is 220-270 kilobits/second, and the average bit rate is usually around 256 kilobits/second.)
or
-alt- default standard
(Bit rate180-220kbit/s-usually about192kbit/s on average)
Just a reminder, the compression speed of the first parameter is much slower, and the machine is quite time-consuming because of its poor performance.
4。 Select external-> In the second button of the toolbar. Crappy-> The lame can choose to transfer at this time.
In the ape file, and then click the first button convert, you can realize ape->; This is mp3.
Related links: currently recommended dll binaries
www.hydrogenaudio.org/extra/LAME/lame3.90.2-ICL.zip
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TARGET = _ blank & gt EXE binary currently recommended.
4。 Can the wrong ape file be repaired? Or ignore it?
If the whole CD is pressed into ape, there is a corresponding cue file.
1。 Use make apl (a gadget attached to monkey audio) to convert cue into several apl files.
2。 By adding these apl in Monkey, you can decompress each track into a separate wav, including errors.
Some audio tracks cannot be decompressed normally.
In theory, no matter what kind of ape it is, you can edit the appropriate apl yourself and set the wrong part as a single tone.
Orbit, can maximize the retention of other parts.
5。 How to burn APE to CD?
Answer. Ape-> WAV-& gt； laser record
This is the most commonly used method, which is suitable for both APEImage and multi-file APE, but it is also the most tedious.
B. burn CD with EAC
The recording function of EAC directly supports APE format, which is now ape->; The most convenient way to CD.
Menu tool in EAC-> write cd-r to turn on the recording function of EAC.
1。 If you have a ready-made cue file, it will be easier. Just import the cue file directly.
It should be noted that the path and name of the audio track file in the prompt must be correct and can
Refer to question 2.
2。 If there is no cue file and the downloaded file is the corresponding ape for each track, it is the same as nero.
It's almost the same to carve wav or mp3 files into CDs, and import them one by one. The import command is located under the layout menu (i.e.
It is generally recommended to use the command "Append file for new track (index 1)" to add files, or drag and drop them directly.
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C. using APE plug-ins for Nero
After installing the ape plug-in for nero, you can drag it directly in nero just like carving a wav and mp3 cd.
Just put it.
Plug-in downloads the audio plug-in of Nero burning ROM with address Mauau.
Nero also has other audio plug-ins in all common audio formats.
How to install the plug-in: extract the plug-in DLL to the "... \Ahead\Shared\AudioPlugins" directory.
Nero version requires more than 5.5.9.0.
Note: At present, this Ape plug-in for Nero is not perfect, and there is a major flaw.
If you use Nero to import CUE to burn APEImage-& gt；; CD, it seems that it can be burned normally, the number of tracks and the time.
From now until then, it shows no problem.
However, play the engraved CD-all tracks are the same as the first track! ! !
If there are more than one ape-carved CD, there is no such problem, and everything is normal.
From the ror music world
1. Let Nero burn the ape music file directly.
Click to download nxmyape.zip first.
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4.APE is directly burned into a CD with a burner.
Download the plug-in named nxMyAPE.dll (as shown below), and directly copy the file to the shared \audioplugins directory of the recording software Nero, or C: \ Program files \ Common files \ ahead \ Audio Plugins \, so that Nero can identify the APE file, and thus can directly record the APE to a CD.
NxMyAPE.dll plug-in:
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