Supported audio formats (looking for APE)

Submitted by phoenix on Fri, 2006-02-03 23:58

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I was looking in moc for APE (MonkeyAudio) support, but it seems that this format is no supported. If i am wrong please let me know. If this format is not supported, are there any plans to put support for it to mocp ?.

daper

Sat, 2006-02-04 07:55

There are plans, but I don't know when. Maybe someone else do this?

--
Damian Pietras - MOC developer

phoenix

Wed, 2006-02-08 20:10

Maybe you can use mac-port to decompress APE files (i don't know if it is possible on the fly).

EdGeIII crypt # mac help
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 3.99) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Proper Usage: [EXE] [Input File] [Output File] [Mode]

Modes:
Compress (fast): '-c1000'
Compress (normal): '-c2000'
Compress (high): '-c3000'
Compress (extra high): '-c4000'
Compress (insane): '-c5000'
Decompress: '-d'
Verify: '-v'
Convert: '-nXXXX'

Examples:
Compress: mac.exe "Metallica - One.wav" "Metallica - One.ape" -c2000
Decompress: mac.exe "Metallica - One.ape" "Metallica - One.wav" -d
Verify: mac.exe "Metallica - One.ape" -v
(note: int filenames must be put inside of quotations)

daper

Wed, 2006-02-08 20:34

The bigest problem is the lack of my free time, not the lack of a known solution to do that.

--
Damian Pietras - MOC developer

plasticarman

Wed, 2008-08-20 03:22

Is there any chance to make moc to play ape files, that would be a really nice feature, not many players under linux and especially console players are able to play them.

969696

Tue, 2008-12-30 09:27

I can't play ape file but i can play flac, so here is what i do :

cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -o flac sample.ape

this commands splits the ape file and produces flac files

cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -n name -o flac sample.ape

this one does the same but names the flac files

llerites12

Sun, 2010-08-15 12:24

Thanks it helped me ;0

corewavpack

hiben

Tue, 2008-09-09 08:23

I updated my ffmpeg libs and realized that there is now support for playing APE files via ffplay.
It seems that MOCs ffmpeg-decoder can be used to playback APE files by just adding this filetype to its known formats.
This worked on my machine - there is definitely some investigation to do as to find out how to check in MOC's configuration whether the ffmpeg-libs on the machine support APE...

But using ffmpeg seems to way to go...

Just my two cent.

Planner

Thu, 2009-03-05 17:46

here's the patch:
http://pastebin.com/f3e7cc6ae
--- decoder_plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c.old
+++ decoder_plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c
@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@
strcpy (buf, "MP4");
else if (!strcasecmp(ext, "m4a"))
strcpy (buf, "M4A");
+ else if (!strcasecmp(ext, "ape"))
+ strcpy (buf, "APE");
}

static int ffmpeg_our_format_ext (const char *ext)
@@ -353,7 +355,8 @@
|| !strcasecmp(ext, "ra")
|| !strcasecmp(ext, "m4a")
|| !strcasecmp(ext, "mp4")
- || !strcasecmp(ext, "aac");
+ || !strcasecmp(ext, "aac")
+ || !strcasecmp(ext, "ape");
}

static void ffmpeg_get_error (void *prv_data, struct decoder_error *error)

i am auto-patching FreeBSD port by adding this to ~/etc/ports.diff (which is applied after each ports update):
http://pastebin.com/f59e8156d
--- /dev/null 2009-03-05 17:44:41.000000000 +0200
+++ audio/moc/files/patch-decoder_plugins-ffmpeg-ffmpeg.c 2009-03-05 17:43:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- decoder_plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c.old
++++ decoder_plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c
+@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@
+ strcpy (buf, "MP4");
+ else if (!strcasecmp(ext, "m4a"))
+ strcpy (buf, "M4A");
++ else if (!strcasecmp(ext, "ape"))
++ strcpy (buf, "APE");
+ }
+
+ static int ffmpeg_our_format_ext (const char *ext)
+@@ -353,7 +355,8 @@
+ || !strcasecmp(ext, "ra")
+ || !strcasecmp(ext, "m4a")
+ || !strcasecmp(ext, "mp4")
+- || !strcasecmp(ext, "aac");
++ || !strcasecmp(ext, "aac")
++ || !strcasecmp(ext, "ape");
+ }
+
+ static void ffmpeg_get_error (void *prv_data, struct decoder_error *error)

maybe someone should send pr...

Wansfell

Sun, 2009-03-29 16:54

Thanks for the patch.

I edited ffmpeg.c manually since aac is moved to a separate plugin in the latest svn revision.
But it works like a charm :-)

Regards, Wansfell

bkmz

Sat, 2009-10-31 16:32

I mannually added ape strings in the source file, but i can't view the ape files.
2211 revision

jcf

Tue, 2012-02-28 19:36

Resolved by SVN commit r2408.

BroX

Tue, 2015-01-27 14:13

For some reason moc does not recognise my .ape files. The directory shows up empty. I can play the files with e.g. mplayer, so ffmpeg supports ape:
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders<br /> libavcodec version 54.23.100 (internal)<br /> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0-&gt;176400)<br /> Selected audio codec: [ffape] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Monkey's Audio)

When I try to play the track directly from the command line with moc, it gives the following message:

<br /> Note: No relevant classes found. No output generated.<br />

Do I need to add a specific option during configuration?

BroX

Tue, 2015-01-27 14:47

Replying to self... it may help some one else too.

I rebuild moc with the build option --without-aac forcing moc to use the aac codec from ffmpeg and all is well.

Edit: Simply rebuilding moc did the job (rather than using the standard Slackware package).

jcf

Tue, 2015-01-27 22:59

The answer is actually simpler than it would appear. Slackware's MOC package does not include MOC's FFmpeg decoder plug-in (required for APE) but when you rebuilt it from source that plug-in did get installed.

Why Slackware's package does not include the FFmpeg decoder I do not know. It is not excluded by the build script nor removed subsequently, so it must be that FFmpeg was not found by configure.

BroX

Wed, 2015-01-28 00:28

Indeed, ffmpeg is not included as an official Slackware package. It can however be easily added through other repositories (e.g. slackbuilds.org).