Dealing With .ape + .cue

Status_QuoStatus_Quo Join Date: 2004-01-30 Member: 25749Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Long story...</div> Since I bought myself a MP3 player (a Creative with 30GB storage) a while ago, I started ripping all my music. While doing so, I thought I'd make backup copies of my CDs and burn to a DVD for safekeeping. Since I want perfect copies, I used that monkey audio program and pretty much followed the instructions to create an .ape and a .cue file for each CD.

Now, I'd like to use these files to re-create MP3s I've removed from the player without having to rip all the CDs again (seeing as I'm not sure I'll find one or two of them). However, I can't figure out how to make the program split the file into tracks. The best I can do is decode the file into wav and end up with a long wav file with all the tracks in a row.

A little help here? As detailed as possible would be nice, 'cause I'm a bit green.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    I have no idea what this "monkey audio" thing is, but see if you can get the image and cue to work with Daemon tools (<a href='http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5' target='_blank'>DL here</a>) and then run your ripper on the virtual drive. That could work.
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    One thing I am wondering: Why didnt you put the MP'3s onto the DVD as a data archive, rather than all the raw music? Would have saved lots of space, and would be easier to do.
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  • Status_QuoStatus_Quo Join Date: 2004-01-30 Member: 25749Members
    edited May 2004
    This is <a href='http://www.monkeysaudio.com/' target='_blank'>Monkey's Audio</a>. Long story short; it's a program that compress wav files without any quality loss, and adds a couple of features (like automatic volume tuning depending on the volume spikes in a track).
    I tried Daemon Tools (in fact, I've used it quite a lot the past year or so), but it didn't work out. There are a couple of solutions (I can burn the files to a CD with tracks and all just fine for example), but all I can come up with so far require extra time and/or resources (such as CDs to burn). I just need to learn this once and I can do it whenever I want. I know it's supposed to be possible, I just can't figure out how.

    I used 1:1 copies because I wanted backups, not MP3's. The backups had very little to do with the MP3 player actually, I just hadn't bothered doing it until I bought it. I know it's a fairly large waste of space since the difference in quality between 320 kbit/s MP3 and a wav file is hardly noticable unless you really look for it. Don't get me wrong, I use MP3s most of time (I do encode it to 320 kbit/s though, which is about 1/4th of the size of the original wav), but I want a clean source file somewhere. The CDs serve this purpose of course, but the point here is that I wanted backups in case I lost one of those CDs (wouldn't be the first time).
    Took 6 DVDs, most filled almost completely, to store all of the 40-something albums.

    <i>Edit:</i> Well, I got it working now. A lot faster than ripping all the albums again.
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