Hiya everybody !

I use APE to loslessly store my files. So whenever I need to re-encode I decomress to WAV and then encode to MPC. Is there a better way of doing this ? I mean an 'on the fly' conversion of APE to MPC without the intermediate WAV ?

mppenc 1.01i is documented to accept APE files as input, but I have verified that it does not encode 'on the fly' - there's an intermediate WAV generated. Same is the case with Monkey Audio's 'Convert' option.

So is there anything which does this ? Or any plans of such things in the pipeline ?

Regards,
Kartik a.k.a. experttech

I would like to see your verification... mppenc uses pipes and there are no intermediate wave files generated.

When I gave an APE file as input, there was a file - with no extension and just a '-' (hyphen) in its name. Then mppenc exited with an error. The result was a wav file generated - verified by using WMP and checking the decoder statistics.

Now what Im wondering is whether the problem is due to the APE version. Does mppenc handle 'older' APEs in some other way ? :confused: If the problem is due to the version, its my mistake. I'll verify the same with APE v > 3.96

I'll anyways post a screenshot of the same.

You need mac.exe modified by Klemm, official MAC does not support pipes. The version included with mppenc 1.01i or later will work perfectly.

You mean for encoding the wavs ? That means I'll have to re-encode using this MAC version

If MAC.exe only has to 'be there' - it is already there

No, the modified version is only needed for decoding.


You need the mac.exe that comes with mppenc to be in path. You also need to use short names in path (program files -> progra~1) and there can't be quotation marks. When you make these modifications everything should work.

Thanks a lot, Case. I really appreciate your quick response

Regards,
Kartik.