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gigaMojo:
   I've read through some posts about the APE format but I'm not sure what the story is.

   Been using Rockbox for many months happily on the Sansa 260.   But when I tried playing APE files they skip badly.

  Is the 260 simply not fast enough or is there some other issue with the APE driver?

LambdaCalculus:
Except for the Gigabeats, APE files are simply too intensive to decode in realtime on most of the targets, especially PortalPlayer-based targets (of which the Sansa is one).

For your reading pleasure, I present this wiki page explaining the Monkey's Audio codec.

AlexP:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on May 20, 2008, 10:13:00 PM ---Except for the Gigabeats, APE files are simply too intensive to decode in realtime on most of the targets, especially PortalPlayer-based targets (of which the Sansa is one).

--- End quote ---

Even for the gigabeat on higher compression.


--- Quote from: gigaMojo on May 20, 2008, 10:03:24 PM ---     Is the 260 simply not fast enough or is there some other issue with the APE driver?

--- End quote ---

APE just really isn't designed for portable devices.  As it is lossless, transcode to another format such as FLAC or WAVPACK

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: BigBambi on May 21, 2008, 03:11:59 AM ---Even for the gigabeat on higher compression.

--- End quote ---

Indeed. Both the F and S can handle up to -c3000 ("high") compression well (according to the above wiki page), but anything above that will cause lag.

gigaMojo:
 Thanks for the info. I have very few APE files so it's not a big deal.

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