janp Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Is there any chance that Toast 8 will be able to read/convert .ape compressed audio files? .ape is getting very common in the windows world (elas) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igbg Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 yes, so it seems, Toast does not support .ape (or .cue) files -- I guess the question is, if the Roxio folks are reading this, "will you add support for .ape files in the next version of Toast" -- or, ideally, will/can you add it to the next incremental upgrade? It would be a boon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudonym Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 Try "Max": http://sbooth.org/Max/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John at Roxio Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 Even if we were going to add support for it, we cant comment on future features so we coudln't tell you anyway. I just want to make sure you know that we see your feature request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 How many people actually use Monkey Audio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenesis Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 xACT is a "Mac OS X GUI front end for the unix applications Shorten, shntool, monkey's audio compressor ,flac and cdda2wav with paranoia and much more." In a nutshell, it's seems to be the most reliable tool under OSX for converting .ape, .flac, .shn to .wav or .aiff formats. It also rips cd's really nicely. I have been collecting lossless audio from taper-friendly bands for many years. I maintain a huge lossless audio collection. In my experience, there are still many more in Shorten format than any other lossless format on the internet. This is followed by Flac16 format files. I have never encountered files in WavPack format, and I've only encountered an archive in Monkey's format (.ape) once, out of many terrabytes of downloaded material. Monkey's audio is very, very slow to decompress. I convert everything to Apple Lossless, which tends to result in smaller files, and are more smoothly playable by Quicktime than the other formats. I'd love to see support for Monkey's Audio (and Monkey's Video, for that matter, which seems to be very popular in Europe). More importantly, I'd love to see someone cook up a Shorten .component for Quicktime. Shorten development seems to have stopped in 2002, though the CoDec is very fast, by far the fastest on my new Intel Macintosh. My two cents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshburn Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Toast doesn't support .ape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffooky Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 How many people actually use Monkey Audio?It's probably around the third most common lossless codec but the top two, FLAC and WavPack, are far more popular with FLAC the clear leader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Is there any chance that Toast 8 will be able to read/convert .ape compressed audio files? .ape is getting very common in the windows world (elas)
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