converting ape to flac

[nutkicker]

Does converting a .ape file to .flac using dbPoweramp result in any loss in sound quality? and if i have a .ape file that does not separate each track in the album into its own file (say i have a cd image thats in .ape that is 550mb and a .cue file that opens up that file as a playlist in foobar) is there any way to split each track into its own individual file? sorry im new here

 

[JiggaD369]

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Originally Posted by nutkicker Does converting a .ape file to .flac using dbPoweramp result in any loss in sound quality? and if i have a .ape file that does not separate each track in the album into its own file (say i have a cd image thats in .ape that is 550mb and a .cue file that opens up that file as a playlist in foobar) is there any way to split each track into its own individual file? sorry im new here

I was pretty much a newbie to this also about a month ago. It's pretty simple. All the software you need is Exact Audio Copy and Monkey's Audio. Drag and drop the .ape file into Monkey's Audio and hit DECOMPRESS. It will result in a .wav file much bigger than the .ape (duh). Then go to the folder containging the .cue file, right-click on it and open it with NOTEPAD. In line 3, make sure it says .wav after in the filename, if not change in to .wav and close and save it. Then open up EAC and go to TOOLS and select SPLIT WAV BY CUE SHEET. Go to the folder with the .wav and .cue files and select accordingly and make sure your EAC is configured to output .FLAC files. That's it.

EDIT: No it will not result in any quality loss since Flac is lossless.

 

[edb]

APE 3.99 comes with a small application called I remember APL, which can help split the large APE file. It's not included in the newer version.
First make sure in your CUE file the third line you see "some name.wav", you large APE file must have the same name "some name.ape" and stay in the same directory with the CUE.
Then drag the CUE into the APL application, a pop window will tell you how many files are successfully splitted and how many fail, and you will see a bunch of apl files are generated in the same directory.
Then use the APE application to decompress those apl files to get individual wave files.
That's what I did to split ape files.

 

[nutkicker]

oh alright thanks.

 

[nutkicker]

i've tried what jigga told me to do but when i go to "Split WAV by cue sheet" in EAC it says

The selected WAV is no standard WAV
EAC processes only 44.1 kHz uncompressed WAVs

how would i go about fixing this?