Any good evaluation music software to convert APE to MP3 or AAC please?

[MichaelRabin]

Hi - anyone can help me convert 2 APE files in Zip format to say MP3 or AAC please?

Thanks. MR

[Lethevich]

Monkey's Audio will do it.  I don't understand why people use ape, just seems stupid.  I say that because flac is free and many players support it, alac is the format for ipods and is supported by ffmpeg and itunes which are both free and popular.  But mp3 players don't widely support ape, and it is not as convenient as flac or alac.  It seems lame to me.

In my case it's because the developers of flac are complete morons who didn't update their broken front-end to work with Vista (instead directing people to an elaborate work-around which didn't work for me) for so long that many just migrated to the nearest similar format.

On a purely functional basis, I like the way that post-flac lossless formats such as ape allow embedding album artwork instantaneously. Flac always takes time to embed non-tiny files, sometimes getting on for a minute.

But then, I don't use lossless on portable music players I suppose.

[DavidW]

In my case it's because the developers of flac are complete morons who didn't update their broken front-end to work with Vista (instead directing people to an elaborate work-around which didn't work for me) for so long that many just migrated to the nearest similar format.

Who uses the flac frontend?  If you're ripping a cd you would use a program like eac or dbpoweramp and do it all in one, it doesn't really make any sense to extract wav with one program and then use another to rip to flac, and say another to do the tags when there is a program that can do all of that in one step.  Why do you need the flac frontend to work?

[Lethevich]

Who uses the flac frontend?  If you're ripping a cd you would use a program like eac or dbpoweramp and do it all in one, it doesn't really make any sense to extract wav with one program and then use another to rip to flac, and say another to do the tags when there is a program that can do all of that in one step.  Why do you need the flac frontend to work?

I honestly can't recall due to how long ago it was.

I did a quick Google for old posts on the subject, and it seems that the problem was with the installer, not the frontend - it got stuck during attempts to install it, and the non-installer tools version which was suggested simply didn't work when EAC was directed towards it .

[DavidW]

I honestly can't recall due to how long ago it was.

I did a quick Google for old posts on the subject, and it seems that the problem was with the installer, not the frontend - it got stuck during attempts to install it, and the non-installer tools version which was suggested simply didn't work when EAC was directed towards it .

Oh okay, it's fixed now btw.