I'm newbie on MPC format.
I tried to convert a APE file to MPC format and the screen showed like this:

c:> mppenc --quality 5 --xlevel test.ape test.mpc
c:>……
ERROR: Unable to read or decode:'test.ape'

WAV->MPC works fine for me. Do I need to decompress APE to WAV first?
It seems APE format should be acceptable as the input file.
Did I miss anything?

Thx in advance for ur tip!

I use Musedrop, and it works fine /w mppenc 1.15r. Just drag and drop the apes onto musedrop.

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You have to copy Frank Klemm's MAC.exe into the c:\system\windows32 directory, that it can be found and used by the mppenc.exe . Then it should work. Or just use the MPC-Batch-Encoder from Speek. It also offers this so-called "pipe-encoding", when the mppenc.exe and the MAC.exe is copied in its directory.

ok now, thanks for reply!

Musedrop is really cute!

Hi!
Are APEv2 tags preserved after conversion from APE to MPC (1.15r)?

Yes