Comments on: Using Monkey’s Audio (ape) files in Ubuntu

By: robin

robin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:08:45 +0000

and here’s one more request for 64bit systems…

By: Arrgoss

Arrgoss — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:25:14 +0000

Hi, thanks for the guide!
As Conor, I’d like to install it in a 64-bit machine. Any suggestion how to do it?

By: Clayborne Arevalo

Clayborne Arevalo — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:53:02 +0000

If you’re looking for something available via apt-get and friends, there’s a Debian package called libjmac-java. But it appears to be dog-slow in decoding a 100MB .ape file. (At over an hour (and counting), it’s much, much slower than decoding a flac file of comparable size. Maybe it’s just the non-Sun Java(tm) interpreter I’m using? Is ape audio decoding really that slower?

However, since it’s Java-based, jmac can conceivably run on any machine for which a Java virtual machine is available (which probably means all widely available desktop processors).

Once the package is installed, the command to run the main decoder program is:

java -jar /usr/share/java/jmac.jar

Which produces the usage screen containing options for compressing, decompressing and verifying your .ape file.

By: Thomas Vanderburg

Thomas Vanderburg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:06:24 +0000

Enough monkey business. Finally I can listen to my music!!! Works great in Ubuntu 7.10

By: MANGARRUFOS » Programas y paquetes interesantes para Kubuntu 7.10

MANGARRUFOS » Programas y paquetes interesantes para Kubuntu 7.10 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:58:05 +0000

[...] Monkey’s Audio (.APE) tan solo tendréis que instalar el paquete (.deb) que se encuentra en ésta página, es decir, éste paquete, y el SoundKonverter lo detectará. Para instalarlo simplemente se [...]

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:47:19 +0000

This is truly a magnificent post, I’ve googled it a thousand times and have it bookmarked.

However, do you know whether there’s any hope for 64-bit users? Your guide worked perfectly when I was still running i386, but now that I’m on 64-bit, is all hope lost for me? The deb you posted of course won’t install…

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:54:45 +0000

I downloaded the source, and it seems that the NASM dependency has been changed to YASM.

By: knoodrake

knoodrake — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:59:12 +0000

Works well in hardy (alpha4).
Thanks.

By: gray

gray — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:17:50 +0000

works in Ubuntu 7.10 too.
Great.Thanks.

By: agis

agis — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:33:38 +0000

aidanjm, thankyou from link