Is it possible to make Rockbox support APE?

[highsun]

I have some APEs from the whole CD. And I hope to stuff them into my x5 without seperation of APE into several pieces of WAV.

[RotAtoR]

I believe there are two reasons why APE (Monkey's Audio) will not be supported in Rockbox:

1. Its license is incompatible with the GPL.
2. It most likely too processor intensive to playback in realtime on Rockbox targets.

[soap]

That being said, there is no reason to go from APE to WAV.  FLAC is a suitable choice.

[highsun]

I believe there are two reasons why APE (Monkey's Audio) will not be supported in Rockbox:

1. Its license is incompatible with the GPL.
2. It most likely too processor intensive to playback in realtime on Rockbox targets.

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Thank you! T get it.

That being said, there is no reason to go from APE to WAV.  FLAC is a suitable choice.

Of course, we can convert a APE file into so big a whole FLAC file, or several pieces of FLAC files. To be FLAC  needs conversion and seperation, too.

[crescentfresh]

APE never really caught on much.  Is the lossless compression with APE that much better than FLAC that there would be a noticeable size difference in your files???

[L]

APE never really caught on much.  Is the lossless compression with APE that much better than FLAC that there would be a noticeable size difference in your files???

Not really.