I had ripped some CDs into .APE format in the past in Windows (IDK, I didn't know any better) and instead of being individual songs, they are one .APE and one .CUE file per CD. Was kind of annoying, but not any more than anything else in life I guess so I didn't worry about it. But I just found my MP3 player and would like to be able to put some individual songs on it after figuring out which songs I want (it's only a 512 MB player) and converting them to MP3 at the highest bit rate that I can use and still fit however many I want on it.
I can play the .APE files in linux, but I do not seem to be able to split them. Does anyone know what piece of software I need to do this? I would prefer not to have to boot into Windows to do it because it's been over six months since I did on this computer and it always seems to take an hour or more to download "updates" (when I can get the thing to actually do the downloading), then takes way to long to install them, reboot, pray, "finishing" install, reboot, pray some more... The whole time of course the hard drive sounds like it's constantly working and my CPU temperatures are elevated above what they are in linux when I'm actually doing something instead of just sitting waiting/hoping for the updates to finish so I can use the computer.
The .CUE files have time points for the individual songs in them, so I believe that if I can find the correct piece(s?) of software, I can do this semi-automatically instead of having to listen to each entire album with my finger on a "cut" button. I could be mistaken.
I did some searching via Google on this issue, and found a page that seemed to explain how to do it in Ubuntu. It had me install a few things (one was already installed I think) but then told me to install some kind of Mac (but its a PC, lol) which was listed as being for Ubuntu 6.something so I looked in Synaptic Package Manager to no avail. I found a "java implementation of mac library using JRE or somesuch" and installed that but apparently they don't do the same thing - or at least not in the same way - because after that nothing in the how-to worked. So I decided to do what I should have done to begin with and just ask the Ultimate Edition experts. I hate asking for something without trying to find the answer myself, but in this case I could have skipped the trying to help myself for all the good it accomplished. Is .APE a "dead" format as far as linux is concerned (most of the pages I could find were 4-5 years old!)?
I will not be ripping any more of my album collection into Monkey's Audio. I will use .FLAC from now on - or something else, if you folks have a better suggestion for a compatible lossless format? But I'd love to be able to split the ones that I am already stuck with.
Thanks very much in advance,
Driver